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Pretty Things Offers A Pretty Outstanding Beer Dinner

Pretty Things Offers A Pretty Outstanding Beer Dinner

First off, I’ll admit I’m all kinds of biased when it comes to my favorite restaurant, The Farm on Adderley in Ditmas Park. Just a stone’s throw away from Sycamore, it’s my second dining room, arrayed with a great menu, focused on local sources and local drinks. ...

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Hey, Craft Brewers! We Want Pitcher Deals!

Hey, Craft Brewers! We Want Pitcher Deals!

A couple of weeks back, I met up with some friends at a bar in Manhattan to watch the World Cup final. The plan was for us all to meet at craft beer bar I had picked out in Greenwich Village, but we arrived to find the windows papered ...

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What's 55%, $765, and Wrapped in Roadkill? Say hello to "The End of History"

What's 55%, $765, and Wrapped in Roadkill? Say hello to "The End of History"

Just for a second, imagine your personal end of beer. Would it be a Holy Grail of a Pilsner, or an IPA brewed with a historically accurate recipe? Would it have the freshest of ingredients, or the most sophisticated technology behind it? Would you have brewed it yourself? Would you ...

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Cleveland Brewery Takes Shot At Dethroned King, LeBron James

Cleveland Brewery Takes Shot At Dethroned King, LeBron James

"We are All Witnesses." Admit it, you saw the ads. A few weeks ago professional basketball player LeBron James' face was plastered along sides of buses, taking up full pages in the newspaper and nabbing television's 'breaking news' headlines. The hype was huge and at the end of it all, ...

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Beer and Fine Dining @ Blue Hill at Stone Barns

Beer and Fine Dining @ Blue Hill at Stone Barns

I love that so many restaurants in NYC have cultivated great craft beer lists and that so many great craft beer bars have developed innovative food menus. Once upon a time, beer loving gourmands had to enjoy great beer at a craft beer bar with a plate of nachos and ...

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Tom’s "Too Hot For TV" Ultimate Summer Beer List: Part II

Tom’s "Too Hot For TV" Ultimate Summer Beer List: Part II

Tom wanted to shoot a video of himself tasting and discussing the following hand-picked list of "kick-ass" summer beers, but our editors thought it would be just "too hot for TV" (or webTV, in this case). We did however let him write about it. This is part two of a four ...

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Beat the Heat: Cool Down with a Michelada

Beat the Heat: Cool Down with a Michelada

In the midst of this summer heat wave, staying cool and staying hydrated is paramount. Cold beer definitely works for me when the mercury is in the 80F – 90F range; but when it hits 100F, I need something colder and more refreshing. Borrowing from our neighbors to the south, ...

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Beer Wars: A Craft Beer Drinker’s Divine Mission

Beer Wars: A Craft Beer Drinker’s Divine Mission

The documentary Beer Wars has been out for about a year, but this was my first chance to view the film at the closing night of The New York Food Film Festival. What an event for a first viewing. Labeled "Brooklyn’s Burger n’ Beer Garden", the closing ceremony of the ...

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What’s 55%, $765, and Wrapped in Roadkill? Say hello to "The End of History"

by Lydia Broussard
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Just for a second, imagine your personal end of beer. Would it be a Holy Grail of a Pilsner, or an IPA brewed with a historically accurate recipe? Would it have the freshest of ingredients, or the most sophisticated technology behind it? Would you have brewed it yourself? Would you find yourself unable to open [...]

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Cleveland Brewery Takes Shot At Dethroned King, LeBron James

by Lydia Broussard
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“We are All Witnesses.” Admit it, you saw the ads. A few weeks ago professional basketball player LeBron James’ face was plastered along sides of buses, taking up full pages in the newspaper and nabbing television’s ‘breaking news’ headlines. The hype was huge and at the end of it all, LeBron James announced that he [...]

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Philly Beer Week Video!

by Eugene Catanzaro
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Our very own Eugene Catanzaro spent a little time at Philly Beer Week last month and had a chance to hang with the guys of Oskar Blues, Voodoo Brewing, Dark Horse Brewing, Doc’s Draft Cider & River Horse. Check it out!

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3rd Annual Belgian Beerfest

by Eugene Catanzaro
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Eugene Catanzaro heads to Center City, Philadelphia for the 3rd Annual Belgian Beerfest at World Café Live to interview the people who bring us these first-class imports.

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Brew Tour: Inside River Horse Brewery (New Jersey)

by Eugene Catanzaro
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Part One Eugene Catanzaro takes us inside of the River Horse Brewery in Lambertville, NJ to sit down for a Beer Session with owner, Chris Walsh and brewers, Chris Rakow and Chris McGrath. Yeah that’s a lot of Chrises, we know. Click Here to Watch! Part Two

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Beer and Loathing in Atlantic City (Celebration of the Suds…Part Deuce)

by Tom MacGowan
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Were you part of the thousands of beer nuts who swarmed Atlantic City, March 20th and 21st?  If you were you may have run into The Beer Sessions crew.  And if you weren’t there, we got your back.  Hey, what are we here for? Eugene charging from the west, myself from the north, we had our [...]

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Beer and Fine Dining @ Blue Hill at Stone Barns

by Jesse York
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I love that so many restaurants in NYC have cultivated great craft beer lists and that so many great craft beer bars have developed innovative food menus. Once upon a time, beer loving gourmands had to enjoy great beer at a craft beer bar with a plate of nachos and had to make do with [...]

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The Makings of a Great Beer Bar: Sycamore Bar and Flower Shop

by Celena Cipriaso
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Sycamore Bar and Flower Shop is not the typical beer bar.  It may even be argued that its beer menu is too short to fall under such a category, but I believe that my regular neighborhood beer-drinking haunt deserves to be ranked in New York City’s top beer drinking establishments. Here’s why: 1.) Sycamore has managed [...]

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Eataly: NYC, Rooftop Brewpub, Dogfish Head, & Mario Batali. Is this Heaven?

by Tom MacGowan
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Good news for New Yorkers and any beer drinker willing to road trip. The brewers from Dogfish Head and Russian River are teaming up with Mario Batali (through his B&B Hospitality Group with Joe Bastianich) and the two Italian breweries, Birrificio Le Baladin and Birra del Borgo to create an unbelievably revolutionary Brewpub in the coolest [...]

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Beers And Bites: Daniel Boulud’s DBGB

by Cassidy Catanzaro
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Chef-restaurateur Daniel Boulud has done it again. While his world renowned restaurant Daniel is still one of the most coveted reservations in town with a who’s who of celebrity clientele, his latest offering to Manhattan’s lower east side is proving to be yet another feather in Boulud’s decorated cap. DBGB Kitchen and Bar located at [...]

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Pretty Things Offers A Pretty Outstanding Beer Dinner

by Celena Cipriaso
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First off, I’ll admit I’m all kinds of biased when it comes to my favorite restaurant, The Farm on Adderley in Ditmas Park. Just a stone’s throw away from Sycamore, it’s my second dining room, arrayed with a great menu, focused on local sources and local drinks. Having already attended the excellent Ommegang dinner The [...]

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Tom’s "Too Hot For TV" Ultimate Summer Beer List: Part II

by Tom MacGowan
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Tom wanted to shoot a video of himself tasting and discussing the following hand-picked list of “kick-ass” summer beers, but our editors thought it would be just “too hot for TV” (or webTV, in this case). We did however let him write about it. This is part two of a four part series. Read Part [...]

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Beat the Heat: Cool Down with a Michelada

by Jesse York
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In the midst of this summer heat wave, staying cool and staying hydrated is paramount. Cold beer definitely works for me when the mercury is in the 80F – 90F range; but when it hits 100F, I need something colder and more refreshing. Borrowing from our neighbors to the south, my choice beverage on a [...]

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Tom’s "Too Hot For TV" Ultimate Summer Beer List: Part I

by Tom MacGowan
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Tom wanted to shoot a video of himself tasting and discussing the following hand-picked list of “kick-ass” summer beers, but our editors thought it would be just “too hot for TV” (or webTV, in this case). We did however let him write about it. This is Part I of Tom’s “Too Hot For TV” Ultimate [...]

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Beer Wars: A Craft Beer Drinker’s Divine Mission

by Celena Cipriaso
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The documentary Beer Wars has been out for about a year, but this was my first chance to view the film at the closing night of The New York Food Film Festival. What an event for a first viewing. Labeled “Brooklyn’s Burger n’ Beer Garden”, the closing ceremony of the festival was an event for [...]

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What We’ll Be Doing This Fourth of July

by The Beer Sessions
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This Fourth of July, our writers here at The Beer Sessions wanted to share with you our social plans for the holiday and what beer we intend to pair with it. Jesse York On the Fourth of July, hot dogs and hot weather beers like pilsner, pale ale and wheat beers are certainly de rigueur. [...]

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Saison du Buff: Sam Calagione, Bill Covaleski, & Greg Koch Declare War on Bad Beer

by Tom MacGowan
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Recently, while visiting the Stone Brewing Company in Escondido, San Diego, I was fortunate enough to score a coveted tasting of the Stone, Dogfish Head, and Victory collaboration brew – Saison du BUFF. Once upon a time in 2003, three great brewers from opposite ends of the country came together for a press conference to announce to [...]

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De Dolle Brouwers Oerbier Special Reserva 2006

by Eugene Catanzaro
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After braving our fourth major snow storm in a nearly a month, March is finally here and it is time for us all to start looking ahead to spring. This season has been filled with all of the usual suspects: stouts, porters, and barley wines, and it has been great. But the snow is driving [...]

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A Floridian Engagement: Beers and a Roasted Pig

by Jesse York
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When my sister got engaged two years ago, we threw her an engagement party at my mom’s house down in Florida. In true Florida style, we brought out the tiki torches, got plenty of beer and roasted a whole pig. It was perfect, except for the beer situation. We were able to track down some [...]

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Welcome To Jamaica. Would you like a Red Stripe? Or a Red Stripe?

by Cassidy Catanzaro
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Perhaps when one thinks of a Jamaican vacation the first thing that comes to mind may not be beer drinking, if you catch my drift. And even if you don’t catch my drift, you’ll catch someone’s if you hang around long enough. But if beer is more your thing than a trip to Ganja Mountain, [...]

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Spice is Not The Enemy: Five Tips for Pairing Beers with Southern Barbecue Alternatives

by Lydia Broussard
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Summer is upon us northern hemisphere dwellers, and that means one thing: cookouts. If you’re in the north, you may be preparing for another season of barbecuing: “man cook with fire, drink brews.” However, a serious amount of cookout culture comes from the American South. Recipes yanked from years of family reunions and southern tourist [...]

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Quick Tips: #2 The Proper Pour

by Eugene Catanzaro
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A Quick Tip from Eugene Catanzaro on how to properly pour your beer. Click Here to Watch!

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Hey, Craft Brewers! We Want Pitcher Deals!

by Andrew Henderson
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A couple of weeks back, I met up with some friends at a bar in Manhattan to watch the World Cup final. The plan was for us all to meet at craft beer bar I had picked out in Greenwich Village, but we arrived to find the windows papered and a sign that read, “currently [...]

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Do Great Tasting Pilsners Actually Exist?

by Andrew Henderson
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“Give me Pilsners, or give me Death!” – Anonymous Have you ever heard that quote? Me neither. You know why? No one’s ever said it. Since we started The Beer Sessions this year, I’ve branched out in my beer tasting, trying all different styles from all different breweries. Throughout this time, one style has continued [...]

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Four Reasons Why You Should Become A Home Brewer

by Jesse York
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Like other beer fanatics, I spend a good deal of time chasing down every new release that breweries in my neck of the woods put out. Unlike many of my suds obsessed friends, I also spend a good deal of time brewing my own beer. Their argument for not going the DIY route is always [...]

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A Young Drinker’s Dilemma: Spaghetti Westerns + Good Beer + McLovin?

by Lydia Broussard
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A craft beer bar hosting ‘four-dollar draught week’ should be approached with equal doses of caution and glee. In my old neighborhood, the occurrence of such a week at the bar down the street was timed for the flood of college students back into the area. The owner wanted to let them get a taste [...]

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