Tag: craft beer

  • Drink Local: Craft Beer from Brooklyn and Queens

    Drink Local: Craft Beer from Brooklyn and Queens

    The hot, muggy summer weather that has recently descended on the city is perfect for spending some quality time with good friends and cold brews. Moving to New York exposed me to a whole new world of beer. With many craft breweries based right here in the city, I’m never more than a few feet…

  • Beers In Cans To Drink On Brooklyn Roofs

    Beers In Cans To Drink On Brooklyn Roofs

    Summer is finally (FINALLY) here. Long muggy days have descended upon New York, and while there are some stifling days inside un-air-conditioned apartments, there are also days to be spent on roofs with only the elevated train for a breeze, a can of beer in hand as a summery playlist drifts out of tiny iPhone…

  • Home Away From Home: The Sampler

    Home Away From Home: The Sampler

    A lot of my stories start with a bar. I think it’s probably genetic. My parents are nothing if not talented drinkers, who raised me to love the finer things (aka beers and gins) in life. Their friend groups seem to have a high bartender to lay person ratio, and, ever their offspring, I’m always…

  • March Round Up

    March Round Up

    Not gonna lie to y’all, our lives this month mostly consisted of navigating unseasonable weather, as we tried (only somewhat successfully) to emerge from the self-imposed hibernation of February. While we mostly remained in Netflix-binge and blog-planning mode, we did manage, in the spirit of spring, to poke our heads out of our abodes. Zelda…

  • Kentucky: It’s Not Just For Bourbon Anymore

    Kentucky: It’s Not Just For Bourbon Anymore

    If you’ve stopped by the blog since last Friday, you know that the holy festival of March Madness is upon us. I was originally slated to produce some sort of basketball-viewing cocktail for you today; however, my basketball viewing hardly ever involves a mixed drink. The Momma and The Granmomma have been known to down a…

  • Top 14 of 2014

    Top 14 of 2014

    The year is coming to an end, so instead of our usual monthly round-up we thought we’d give you a little list of our favorite things from the past year. From the serious to the silly, these are a few of the things that made our 2014! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL: First things first: we are sports fans.…