New York Stories
On Saturday morning I’m going to New York. This might seem pathetic but, at 30 years old, it will be the first time I’ve left Europe. When I was a kid I wanted to go to New York because it was where Spider-Man and the Ghostbusters lived. I kind of still do.
But I’m also very excited about the beers. When I tell normal people that I’m looking forward to trying lots of great beers in New York, they look at me oddly. But since (repeatedly) going to North Bar’s North American Beer Festival and exploring the range of American beers in Beer Ritz, it’s been clear that America is the most exciting place in the world for beer. It seems equally clear that the influence of American craft brewers has greatly contributed to the revitalisation of the British beer industry and to those beers that have sparked my enthusiasm for it all.
So I’ve been reading Lew Bryson’s New York Breweries and Andy Crouch’s beautiful book Great American Craft Beer. I was keenly interested in Richard Burhouse and Pete Brown’s blog entries on drinking in New York.
I’ve discovered that, purely by chance, our hotel is only a couple of blocks’ (Blocks! Get me!) walk from The Ginger Man, Cask Bar + Kitchen and Rattle ‘n’ Hum. Moreover, Rattle N Hum has offers on Stone Arrogant Bastard, Double Bastard and Lucky Bastard all week. I don’t want to go completely mad and spend our entire holiday schlepping half-cut from bar to bar, but other options further afield I’ve considered are Blind Tiger; Mugs Ale House, Brooklyn Brewery and Barcade.
I don’t even want to get started on the beers I want to try, but I’ll be keeping a keen eye out for all the Brooklyn Brewery beers I haven’t tried, especially Brooklyn Winter Ale (recently reviewed by Leigh, with a lovely label) and also Bear Republic’s Racer 5 (recommended by Richard of MyBreweryTap, as well as Andy Crouch and many others).
So that’s what I’m most excited about. Anywhere else I must go or beers I must drink? Anything I’ve mentioned that’s not really worth it?
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Cheers Barry, much appreciated!