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With quality beer producers popping up all over the nation, you don’t have to
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travel very far to taste great beer; some of the best stuff is brewing right in
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beer bars geared toward brew enthusiasts looking to seek out the best beers
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New York has to offer, from bitter seasonal IPAs to rich, dark stouts.
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Written by local beer experts, Beer Lover’s New York covers the entire beer experience
for the proud, local enthusiast and the traveling visitor alike, including:
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• Brewery and beer profiles with • Clone beer recipes for homebrewers
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• Must-visit brewpubs and beer bars • Food recipes made with local craft beer
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• Top annual beer festivals, tastings, • Walkable city pub crawl itineraries
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and 187 by Giancarlo Annese and photo on page 21 courtesy
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Contents
The Bronx Ale House 35
Introduction x
Burp Castle 36
Cafe D’Alsace 37
How to Use This Guide xii
The Diamond 38
Dive Bar 39
New York City 1
Earl’s Beer and Cheese 39
Breweries
4th Avenue Pub 40
Big Alice Brewing 2
Idle Hands Bar 42
Bridge and Tunnel Brewery 3
Jacob’s Pickles 43
The Bronx Brewery 5
Jimmy’s No. 43 44
Brooklyn Brewery 6
Killmeyer’s Old Bavaria Inn 45
Chelsea Brewing Company 9
McSorley’s Old Ale House 47
City Island Beer Company 10
124 Rabbit Club 47
Harlem Brewing Company 12
Pine Box Rock Shop 48
Jonas Bronck’s Beer Company 13
The Pony Bar 49
KelSo of Brooklyn 15
Proletariat 50
Radiant Pig Craft Beers 16
The Queens Kickshaw 50
Rockaway Brewing Company 17
Rattle N Hum 51
SingleCut Beersmiths 19
Spuyten Duyvil 52
Sixpoint 21
Taproom 307 52
Third Avenue Ale House 53
Brewpubs
Tørst 53
508 Gastrobrewery 24
Heartland Brewery 24
Pub Crawls
La Birreria 26
East Village, Manhattan 55
Upper East Side, Manhattan 57
Beer Bars
Park Slope, Brooklyn 59
Adobe Blues 28
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 61
Alewife NYC 28
Alphabet Beer Co. 30
Long Island 65
Barcade 30
Breweries
Beer Authority 31
Barrier Brewing Company 66
Bierkraft 32
The Blind Bat Brewery 68
Blind Tiger 34
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Blue Point Brewing Company 69 Pub Crawl
Fire Island Beer Company 71 Patchogue 105
Great South Bay Brewery 72
Greenport Harbor Brewing Hudson Valley 109
Company 75 Breweries
Long Ireland Beer Company 77 Captain Lawrence Brewing
Montauk Brewing Company 80 Company 110
Oyster Bay Brewing Company 81 Chatham Brewing 112
Port Jeff Brewing Company 83 Crossroads Brewing Company 113
Rocky Point Artisan Brewers 85 The Defiant Brewing Company 114
Southampton Publick House 87 Keegan Ales 116
Spider Bite Beer Company 89 Newburgh Brewing Company 118
Peekskill Brewery 120
Brewpubs Rushing Duck Brewing Company 122
Black Forest Brew Haus 91 Sloop Brewing Company 123
BrickHouse Brewery and Yonkers Brewing Company 125
Restaurant 92
John Harvard’s Brewery and Ale Brewpubs
House 93 Cave Mountain Brewing Company 127
The Gilded Otter Brewing
Beer Bars Company 128
The Black Sheep Ale House 95
BOBBiQUE 95 Beer Bars
The Cortland 96 Birdsall House 130
Croxley’s Ale House 98 The Grand Cru Beer and Cheese
The Good Life 98 Market 130
Hoptron Brewtique 100 The Hop 131
The Lark Pub and Grub 101
Tap and Barrel 101 Capital Region 133
The Tap Room 103 Breweries
T.J. Finley’s Public House 104 Brown’s Brewing Company 134
Shmaltz Brewing Company 136
Steadfast Beer Company 137
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Brewpubs
Central New York
C.H. Evans Brewing Company at the
& the Finger Lakes Region 165
Albany Pump Station 139
Breweries
Mad Jack’s Brewing Company
Bacchus Brewing Company 166
at the Van Dyck Restaurant and
Birdland Brewing Company 168
Lounge 140
Brewery Ommegang 170
Butternuts Beer & Ale 172
Beer Bars
Cooperstown Brewing Company 174
The Bier Abbey 142
Cortland Beer Company 175
The City Beer Hall 142
Empire Brewing Company 177
Mahar’s 144
Finger Lakes Beer Company 178
The Ruck 144
Good Nature Brewing 180
Wolff‘s Biergarten 145
Hopshire Farm & Brewery 182
Horseheads Brewing, Inc. 183
Northern New York &
Ithaca Beer Company 185
Adirondacks Region 149
Matt Brewing Company 187
Breweries
Middle Ages Brewing Company 189
Adirondack Pub and Brewery 150
Naked Dove Brewing Company 191
Blue Line Brewery 152
Rooster Fish Brewing 193
Davidson Brothers Brewing
Upstate Brewing Company 195
Company 153
Wagner Valley Brewing Company 197
Lake Placid Pub & Brewery 156
Olde Saratoga Brewing Company 158
Brewpubs
Sackets Harbor Brewing
Bandwagon Brewpub 200
Company 159
Council Rock Brewery 200
G.C. Starkey Beer Company 202
Brewpubs
Market Street Brewing Company and
Druthers Brewing Company 161
Restaurant 203
Great Adirondack Brewing
Miles Craft Ales 204
Company 162
Nail Creek Pub & Brewery 205
Rogues Harbor Brewing Company 206
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Scale House Brewpub 208 Woodcock Brothers Brewing
Seneca Lodge 208 Company 241
Two Goats Brewing 209
War Horse Brewing Company 210 Brewpubs
Water Street Brewing Company 212 Becker Brewing Company 244
Pearl Street Grill and Brewery 245
Beer Bars
The Blue Tusk 213 Beer Bars
The Chapter House 214 Aurora Brew Works 247
The Green Onion 215 Blue Monk 248
The Ithaca Ale House Grill and Coles 250
Taproom 215 Donnelly’s Public House 251
Red Brick Pub 216 Ebenezer Ale House 252
The Lewiston Village Pub 252
Pub Crawl Lovin’cup 253
Syracuse 218 MacGregors’ Grill and Tap Room 254
Mr. Goodbar 254
Western New York 221 The Old Toad 255
Breweries The Owl House 256
CB Craft Brewers 222 Pizza Plant 257
Community Beer Works 224 The Revelry 258
Ellicottville Brewing Company 226 Stoneyard Bar and Grill 260
The Fairport Brewing Company 228 Tap & Mallet 261
Flying Bison Brewing Company 230 Tap & Table 261
Genesee Brewing Company 232 Victoire Belgian Beer Bar and
Roc Brewing Company 234 Bistro 262
Rohrbach Brewing Company 236
Southern Tier Brewing Company 238 Pub Crawls
Three Heads Brewing 240 Buffalo 263
Rochester 265
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Beer Festivals 267 Appendix:
Beer Lover’s Pick List 302
BYOB:
Brew Your Own Beer 275 Index 306
Home Brew Shops 275
Clone Beer Recipes 278
In the Kitchen 288
Food Recipes 288
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About the Authors
Husband-and-wife team Giancarlo and Sarah Annese are native New Yorkers who
grew up on Long Island. They became immersed in craft beer culture after
moving to New York City in the fall of 2008. Together they founded and run the NYC-
centric website www.BeerUnion .com.
Sarah Annese began her writing career as a reporter at the historic Brooklyn
Eagle newspaper. She and Giancarlo founded BeerUnion .com in 2009, and she is now
a freelance writer specializing in beer and spirits. Sarah has contributed to All About
Beer magazine, Beverage World magazine, and AlcoholProfessor .com.
Giancarlo Annese studied Classics and History at Union College and earned an
M.A. in Medieval History at Fordham University. Through BeerUnion. com he and
Sarah explore and write about craft beer culture in New York City. He works as the
Senior Assistant Director for Student Accounts at Fordham University.
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Acknowledgments
Researching and writing this book has been the most exciting and challenging
project either of us has ever taken on. It would not have been possible without
a lot of help and awesome people.
First and foremost we want to thank our families. To our parents—Mitch and
Pam Tobol, Carlo Annese and Eileen Sheehy—thank you for everything, really. But
more specifically, lending us your homes and your cars, your valuable insights and
advice, and your unwavering willingness to try any beer we pour for you. To our
siblings, Jake, Mary and Robin, for your enthusiasm and love. To our baby niece
Audrey, who will not drink beer until 2034. To Grandma Tobol and Nana Rack. To
Aunt Amy Tobol.
Big thanks and love to our amazing friends, who are always down for a beer.
First to Mike Gallagher, for being an invaluable help to us with the homebrew reci-
pes in these pages. And (in alphabetical order) Amelia Anderson, Kim Berlowitz,
Hanna and Alex Donner, Ashley Gallagher, Emily and Matt Garland, Paul Hamill,
Alison Holstein, Rich Leahy, Jessica Machado, Jackie and Mike Mangiolino, Caitlin
McNamara, Phoebe Neidl, Arthur Rollin, John and Ally Traver, Jeff Williams, and
Charlie and Natalie Wood.
Thank you to Mike Steger, who helped us iron out our very first book contract.
Thank you John Holl and Jeff Cioletti, the best editors a freelancer could hope for.
Thanks to John Kleinchester for helping us keep BeerUnion running throughout this
process with your homebrewing columns.
To all the brewers we’ve met along the way, thank you for generously sharing
your time and stories. To our fellow beer writers, thank you for your suggestions
and thoughts. To the members of BrewYork, you’re the most awesome beer geeks we
know. Thanks for inviting us into your crew and sharing your beers.
And to the readers of BeerUnion .com. We wouldn’t be here without you.
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