If you’ve been to our Tasting Room recently, you’ve probably seen our incredible new mural from Clara Kirkpatrick, also known as @doodle-deli: View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Brooklyn Brewery (@brooklynbrewery) We recently added a new Tasting Room storage section with some clean walls, and figured it would be a great spot to show off a vision of our home borough. Clara’s bright colors, layered worlds, and personal knowledge of the neighborhood were a perfect fit. She said: “As someone who spent several years living in the Brooklyn Brewery neighborhood, I wanted to create a mural that felt authentic to the neighborhood. I want the experience of walking by this …
Brooklyn Brewery House Rules: Social Media & Our Community
Our home borough of Brooklyn is all about celebrating differences. Brooklyn Brewery strives to create spaces, in person and online, that are safe, accessible, inclusive and respectful. We want every person, whatever their background or identity, to feel safe to be themselves in those spaces. We expect that everyone in both our physical and digital spaces upholds the same welcoming values. Disrespectful, discriminatory, or threatening behavior will not be tolerated. If you feel that your personal biases …
Recipe: Brooklyn Lager Braised Sausages with Cody Reiss
By Cody Reiss @codyreiss Food/van dude/funny guy Cody Reiss picked up some Brooklyn Lager and hit the beach to make some beer braised sausages with caramelized onions. We’ve got the full recipe and video below for you to study up and make it on your own— get creative! Brooklyn Lager Braised Sausages with Caramelized Onions, or “Snausage, Onions, and Lager” INGREDIENTS: 4 uncooked snausages (ex. Italian Rippers, Brats, etc.) 2 yellow onions, sliced thick 1 12oz can Brooklyn Lager Potato hot dog buns Take out sauce packets— hot mustard, soy sauce, duck sauce, or your preferred source of…
Linda Loves Bingo! And Our Tasting Room
Big news, drag Bingo fans: Linda Loves Bingo! is taking over our Tasting Room each month for the rest of 2021! $10 at the door gets you a beer and a Bingo card and starts a night full of laughter, incredible drag, and unbelievable prizes every round, including a Brooklyn Brewery Grand Prize. Bingo queen Linda Simpson keeps the games rolling and the stakes high throughout the night, and our Tasting Room bar staff is there for your beers of victory …
Celebrating Pride With The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative
Welcome to Pride Month 2021! Pride Month is a time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and recognize the fight for equality around the world. Pride doesn’t stop with June— it is a year-round commitment to the joy and the work of the LGBTQ+ rights movement. We are proud partners with The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative (SIGBI). SIGBI is a non-profit charitable organization committed to eliminating the social intolerance impacting LGBTQ+ people everywhere. Inspired by the movement born from the Stonewall Inn Uprising of 1969, they support grassroots organizations through awareness campaigns, educational programming, fundraising and…
Lighting Up B at K5 with Smile Neon and Masaya Nakayama
In February 2020, we opened the doors of B at K5, a subterranean haunt in a 1920’s-era cellar fueled by Brooklyn beer, tacos and creative chaos in Tokyo’s historic Nihonbashi neighborhood. With fresh-pressed tortillas, the latest IPAs, an incredible team, the occasional mosh pit and Tokyo’s finest selectors on the decks, we almost had it all. But B is a powerhouse – an electric transmitter emitting contagious frequencies of collaborative energy across Japan – and we needed a bat signal. To get the job done right we teamed up with Hidenobu Takahashi of Smile Neon, one …
The Worshipful Company of Brewers Part XXII: Evan MacCarthy
The Worshipful Company of Brewers is once again upon us. The charter of this sanctified league dictates that each member of the Brooklyn Brewery brewing team will design and create a batch of his or her own draft-only beer, to be served exclusively in the Tasting Room until the last drop has been squeezed from the taps. Beer #22: The True Wheel Style: American Extra Pale Ale ABV: 5.6% Notes: “West Coasty and a little toasty,” with a carefully balanced measure of malt character and old-school hops Availability: Friday, March 13 until it’s gone Brewer #22: Evan MacCarthy…
Sanitize Like A Brewer With Isopropyl Alcohol
Spray bottles of isopropyl are fixtures around our brewing and cellaring spaces, where they can be grabbed for a quick sanitizing spray. Brewing is all about keeping things clean, and these bottles are a key part of the continual work of keeping everything spotless. With Covid-19 putting pressure on supplies of hand sanitizer and soap, we wanted to pass along some tips on sanitizing your hands and surroundings with isopropyl alcohol. To start, make sure your isopropyl alcohol is 70% concentrated. Hand sanitizers above 60% are considered effective on Covid-19 and most pathogens, but for spray you’ll need to bump …
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser, the graphic design icon who created the Brooklyn Brewery logo and helped make Brooklyn an international brand, died yesterday in Manhattan on his 91st birthday. Milton was a mentor and a friend to me for 34 years. My wife Ellen and I and our daughter Lily shared many dinners with Milton and his wife Shirley over those years. My first meeting with Milton did not come easy. I had talked to more than 30 design firms looking for someone to help me develop an identity and logo for Brooklyn Eagle Brewery, an idea I had cooked up with my downstairs Brooklyn neighbor, Tom Potter. None of those firms had given me confidence they could do the job. Ellen suggested I call the best in …
Black Lives Matter
We see you Brooklyn. We see you Minneapolis. We see you Louisville. We see you LA. We see you DC. We see you Seattle. We grieve you, George Floyd. Tony McDade. Breonna Taylor. Nina Pop. Ahmaud Arbery. Eric Garner. Botham Jean. Atatiana Jefferson. Kalief Browder. Sean Bell. Emmett Till. We’re in pain, we’re angry, and we’re scared. And we know that’s a microcosm of what black people feel every single day in the face of systemic oppression, injustice, and racism. We owe so much more and have a lot of learning and listening to do, and we’re committed. Right now, we can only say we stand with you and we see you…
Taking On Covid-19 Together
Usually when we say “hello from Brooklyn,” we think of our Williamsburg offices and Tasting Room, which we call home. Since the onslaught of Covid-19, it’s been a little different. Our home is closed, and while there’s still beer being shipped, almost all of us have scattered to practice social distancing like the rest of the world. Across the globe, our teams are staying home. Our pets are overjoyed. Our families are, fortunately, safe. And we’ve got beer, sure. But it feels very weird being separated from our home…
Brooklyn Gives Back
Since closing our Williamsburg home in mid-March as COVID-19 began to affect New York City, we’ve watched the world change. Many beloved restaurants and bars are closed, and all of us are scrambling to make sense of a new normal that includes masks, separation and social distancing. For us, that’s included navigating a path forward for our business and our people. Unfortunately, we have furloughed much of our team. This allows our people to retain their health insurance and file for unemployment while we work to bring them back. Our block is quiet, except for the sound of clapping for our frontline healthcare workers every night at 7 PM. We’ve been quiet, too. But we have been busy. Here’s a look at what we’re up to: We’re…
Screentime with Steve: What to Watch & Where
With more than enough time these days to catch up on movies and TV shows, we asked our co-founder Steve Hindy for a few of his recent favorites. He sent over a wide-ranging list, including a few he’s looking forward to finding soon. Good luck catching up– at this rate, you’re still not going to have time to watch The Wire. Movies: Little Women (available on demand) Joker (available on demand) Marriage Story (watch it on Netflix) Parasite (available on demand; streaming on Hulu …
How to Work Together as a Team and Get Through a Crisis
Now’s the time to work together as a team and get through our current situation. Be kind. Stay home. And call your friends, family members, and neighbors. When a crisis strikes, working quickly to get ahead of it is key. And working together as a team is the quickest way to work through any crisis because together we’re stronger. Everyone responds differently to a crisis. But we all have different and unique abilities. That’s why we need to work together! Together we complement each other’s strengths to manage and get through tough times. But how exactly, do we …
Covid-19 Community Resource Hub
Welcome to our official round-up of resources and ways to support your communities in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. There are countless efforts already underway, so we’ve done our best to bring together a list of ways to start helping. Most of these efforts are based in NYC, because that’s where most of us are from. Please share these resources or pass along more info via DM on social media, and check back for regular updates. Most of all, be safe, stay healthy, and help wherever you can. Sections: Supporting Breweries Supporting Bars, Restaurants, Service & Hospitality Workers Supporting Healthcare Providers, Boroughs & Neighborhoods This listing is updated as of April 3, 2020. Supporting Breweries: New York City is …
The Brooklyn Brewery Best Of 2019 List
2019 was the latest in a long line of years that started with, “well, it can’t be weirder than previous year, can it?” By the time we hit the finish line on December 31, the answer is clear: 2019 reached impressive new heights and bizarre new lows in the weirdness game. Among the oddity, still, we had some serious bright spots. We polled our team to see what their favorite parts of the year were, from film to beer and beyond. As usual, only some of them read the directions, but we’re still looking forward to digging through everyone’s favorites as we prepare for the crowning oddity of 2020. Tim Rozmus Digital Marketing Manager/guy who organizes this Best Album: Super …
Meet the Artist: Ashley Swope
Visitors to our Tasting Room have a new mural to marvel at thanks to Ashley Swope, our Graphic Designer and the latest artist to take over the western wall in our Tasting Room. In addition to her everyday work on our designs and parenting one of the several official Brooklyn Brewery dogs, Barley, Ashley designed and painted the mural that will oversee our Tasting Room for the next few months: From Ashley’s artist statement: Ashley Swope is a Brooklyn-based illustrator and the Graphic Designer of the Brooklyn Brewery. After graduating from the Pratt Institute, Ashley…
See You At Stonewall: Tree
To celebrate Stonewall 50 and WorldPride in NYC, we gathered a group of remarkable people with their own Stonewall stories to tell. Read them all in our blog, and say hello when you see them at Stonewall. “Hi, my name is Tree. I’ve been a bartender here at the Stonewall- on and off- for almost fifty years.” Yes, fifty years. Tree just turned eighty, but still holds down his shifts behind the pine at The Stonewall Inn three nights a week with the same sharp, subversive wit and care that have made him a landmark in his own right over the past five decades. He’s been a part of the LGBTQ+ scene…
See You At Stonewall: Stacy Lentz
To celebrate Stonewall 50 and WorldPride in NYC, we gathered a group of remarkable people with their own Stonewall stories to tell. Read them all in our blog, and say hello when you see them at Stonewall. As a co-owner of The Stonewall Inn and CEO of The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, Stacy Lentz channels decades of outspoken activism to make the world better for LGBTQ+ people. At a young age, however, that never seemed possible. “I grew up in a small Christian town in the middle of a cornfield in Kansas,” she says. “I never thought I’d be able to come out without being scared to death of the social …
See You At Stonewall: Tatenda Ngwaru
To celebrate Stonewall 50 and WorldPride in NYC, we gathered a group of remarkable people with their own Stonewall stories to tell. Read them all in our blog, and say hello when you see them at Stonewall. As an intersex activist, Tatenda Ngwaru strongly believes in speaking out truthfully. “I remember seeing someone use a microphone, and being drawn to it.” She says, “I wanted to be loud, and to speak my truth.” But for much of her life growing up in Zimbabwe, that outspoken drive literally risked her life. Intersex people are born with ambiguous organs, so sex cannot be determined at birth…
See You At Stonewall: Paolo Krystyan
To celebrate Stonewall 50 and WorldPride in NYC, we gathered a group of remarkable people with their own Stonewall stories to tell. Read them all in our blog, and say hello when you see them at Stonewall. Paolo Krystyan has been working at The Stonewall Inn as a bartender since around 2008. He’s earned a number of nicknames over the years, to the point that he’ll “answer to whatever you call out.” His warm, welcoming attitude have made him equal parts favorite bartender to regulars, and occasional therapist to those at different points in their coming…
See You At Stonewall: Honey Davenport
To celebrate Stonewall 50 and WorldPride in NYC, we gathered a group of remarkable people with their own Stonewall stories to tell. Read them all in our blog, and say hello when you see them at Stonewall. When Honey Davenport enters a room, the energy changes. Her elegant walk and immediate charm make it clear why she’s earned the respect of the drag world and cemented herself as one of the hardest workers and most visible voices in the scene. She was a force to be reckoned with on season 11 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is releasing new original …
World Pride 2019 Guide to Good Beer
There’s tons going on during World Pride 2019 and Stonewall 50, so we’ve rounded up some notable parties and celebrations below, and a list of bars, restaurants, and spots that will feature The Stonewall Inn IPA throughout June in New York City. Tap above to save the guide and zoom in, and check out the parties below: Wednesday, May 29th: The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative Annual Pride Kick-Off (NYC)Start WorldPride on a high note at SIGBI’s annual fundraiser blowout. Thursday, May 30th: Rocketman Premiere at Alamo Drafthouse (NYC) Join us at Alamo …
Explore The World Of Sherry With House Of Lustau & Brooklyn Capataz
For many Americans, sherry is something of a mystery. It’s been relegated over the years to the very back of our national bar cart, only truly shining in serious cocktail bars or Edgar Allen Poe references. We believe it’s time for sherry to step forward once more, and luckily enough, House of Lustau agrees. We’re proud to introduce you to Brooklyn Capataz— but first you have to learn about sherry. Come with us. By definition, sherry is a fortified wine grown and produced in either Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda or El Puerto de Santa María in Andalusia, Spain. All sherry starts as a wine produced from white grapes and is fortified with a grape spirit …