Comment | January 26, 2011 | By Brian Halweil | Photographs by Randee Daddona
LONG ISLAND–This past fall, at an industry-insiders beer dinner at Mirabelle in Port Jefferson, where we supped on cassoulet and sipped rare Brooklyn Brewery selections, brewmaster Garrett Oliver regaled us with stories of his own childhood memories of growing up…
Comment | January 19, 2011 | By Rachel Wharton | Photographs by Michael Harlan Turkell
File this one under better late than never (we hope) but we wanted to bring up an interesting article in last week’s New York Times business section about the changing face of Duane Reade, the massive pharmacy chain that started…
Comment | January 13, 2011 | By Rachel Wharton
The little card deck-sized box of profiles of the city’s best craft beer bars –it’s called Deck of Secrets, and we wrote about its release last year — has just released its iPhone app. It’s $3.99, available from the iTunes…
Comment | January 10, 2011 | By Rachel Wharton | Photographs by Noah Fecks
The big secret behind the city’s best draft beer isn’t clandestine kegs of small-batch suds delivered by a local brewer, or some celeb bartender who knows the proper way to pour. Instead it’s the plumbing—thanks to a humble draft beer…
Comment | September 11, 2009 | By Amber Benham
How NY Craft Beer Week came to be.