A quick look at the event schedule for this year’s NY Craft Beer Week shows just how far along the craft beer revolution has come in the past year alone. There are beer pairing dinners at the likes of Per Se, Resto, Tabla and Mas (farmhouse) and a beer pairing class at Murray’s Cheese. Zagat [...]

In a weekend chock-full of great events (Big Apple BBQ, NY Food Film Festival), I am most excited for tomorrow’s Sixpoint’s Big Ten Block Party. Sixpoint Craft Ales was founded in Brooklyn, NY, in November 2004 by two University of Wisconsin alums and also features a Penn State graduate. I went to Michigan and what would [...]

Thanks to a tweet from the skint we just found out about a 2-hour open bar tomorrow night at our favorite E. Village beer bar. East Village Tavern is celebrating it’s 1-Year Anniversary in high-style with a free open bar from 6-8pm. And this isn’t your typical open bar with Bud Lights and Coors. We’re talkin’ [...]

This Saturday, our friends and fellow beer lovers, Martin and Riki, co-hosted the first-annual World Cup of Beer (2009).  The premise: an eight beer, single-elimination blind tasting NCAA tournament-style. The rules: each participant tastes two different unmarked beers from clear plastic cups (to ensure a good look at the color of the beer, thank you [...]

A movie about the Craft Beer revolution. We’re down. Check out the trailer and then get your tickets to the April 16th event here. 

There are so many food, wine and beer events this time of year it’s getting pretty hard to select which ones to attend. Here’s what we have on tap for this weekend, as well as a couple of events and tastings we can’t unfortunately get to:
Friday Night  – Dinner with friends at The John Dory [...]

In a time when we are all facing the harsh realities of a declining global economy, one of the big food and wine trends for 2009 predicted by thefoodpeople, a British-based food trend consultancy, is a shift in drinking habits with more in-home drinking as well as a rise in the popularity of beer, cider and [...]

Can’t believe there’s yet another brewfest coming to NYC. This time it’s the Great World Beer Festival at Pier 92 this Friday and Saturday. Further proof that NYC is the #1 destination in the world for beer lovers (or at least for alcoholics). Click here for the beers that will be on-hand. Psyched to see that Bear Republic, [...]