Saturday is New York Beer Day!
Best Sips
Enlightenment wines releases three new New York-sourced apple meads into the world — and 30 new shares of his CSA, too.
When we think about all the fantastic, frothy, hoppy goodness coming our way at the…
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a Slow Food New York spirits cocktail hour every week? We can dream — and check out the slideshow from Wednesday night’s thirst-quenching event.
Sip is slow-style tonight at the Slow Food and the Astor Center’s Second Annual Spirits of New York!
While you probably have your spot staked out and your cooler stocked with your fave sudsy treats for tonight’s firework festivities, this weekend head north on a pilgrimage of the liquidy sort to brew-happy Central New York.
Move over wine, ingredients-obsessed chefs are getting into craft beer they’ve helped create.
Today is July 1st, and what does that mean? NYC CRAFT BEER MONTH BEGINS NOW!
Let the thermometers soar — it’s Eat-Drink-Local Week, people! And here’s my sure-fire cure for mid-week heat deflecting: local beer!
I love a Shandy. And, up until now, I was fairly well satisfied with just your average, work-a-day beer-n’-lemonade combo, if ever for its refreshing, low-alcohol “ahhhh” charms on a warm, sunny day. That is until I was ruined forevermore by talented barman, Eamon Rockey.
At last month’s Manhattan Cocktail Classic, a cowboy-hat wearing Dave Pickerell, Master Distiller for Hillrock Estate Distillery, gave me a “C’mere, kid!” crook of the head, beckoning me to something secret seeming. He pulled from his tuxedo jacket’s breast pocket a small, glass bottle full of an amber-hued liquid and grinned.
With temps in the 80s and 90s, I’m finding myself unendingly thirsty for local grapes. Over some Long Island fluke I’d picked up at the Southold Fish Market on my way back to NYC, I popped a Macari 2012 Sauvignon Blanc, which was great with my butter-seared fish with its crazy, straight-back notes of zingy lime, grapefruit, and tart apples.
