Patrick Donagher
All things beer/food, homebrewer, Abdicate, BBQ artist, Founder of Rattle N Hum Bar & www.GetRealNY.com

New international beer festival in Copenhagen

New festival focuses solely on quality

Beer lovers should start looking forward to May 11th and 12th 2012 as a new festival for beer and gourmet fanatics will open its doors in Copenhagen, Denmark. The festival is dubbed Copenhagen Beer Celebration and is founded by Danish brewery Mikkeller alongside...

Red Hot Chili Peppers are playing in Newark, NJ at the Prudential Center on May 4, 2012.

With Sleigh Bells

SOLD OUT

***Please note a second show has been added: http://bit.ly/RHCPNewark2

BeerAdvocate and Sixpoint join forces to host the second annual Beer for Beasts charity event showcasing creative beers, food, and entertainment, all in the name of compassion toward animals.

http://beerforbeasts.com

Beer for Beasts will be held on Saturday, March 31, 2012, at The Bell House (149 7th Street), located in the Gowanus section of...

GET REAL NY PRESENTS “APORKALYPSE NOW” FESTIVAL FEATURING 10 WHOLE LOCAL HOGS, 10 CELEBRATED NYC CHEFS & MORE THAN 40 CRAFT BEERS

All-You-Can-Eat-&-Drink Festival Will Take Place on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 404 NYC Event Space

New York – January 31, 2012 – Get Real NY announced today the details and lineup for its first-ever...

Exact start/end times unknown/tentative.

It will be available for 14 days, no growlers, we are not bottling it, and it will be distributed in limited amounts as usual. I will provide more later as it gets closer, but that is all the information available right now! So no need to email us as we don't know anything else at this time. We...

ROUND 2 in a lifetime series of beer vs. wine events at Jimmy's No 43! Please join Nicole DeCicco (Upstate Wine Co.), Chris Cuzme (NYC Homebrewers Guild, NYCDAT.com) and Mary Izett (mylifeoncraft.com, NYCDAT.com) as they join forces to expertly pair 4 tastings of Jimmy's signature dishes with 4 craft beers and 4 wines.

Which pairings...

You're invited to the first-ever Bushwick Bottle Share!

This is a social get-together among friends & neighbors to share beers, chat beer, and have a good time in a clever kind of way.

Here's how it works:
- Bring a six-pack (or three bombers) of any beer within the event's theme.
- We’ll serve them in numbered pitchers and...

Pints For Presents

Join us at the Blind Tiger from 6-10 PM on Thursday, December 22nd, as we host a Toy Drive for Toys for Tots. If you bring an unopened, unwrapped present, you're entitled to $2 off pints from participating breweries during the event as well as free entries to our very special brewery raffle!

The List...
Victory Yakima...

7 Dogfish Brews: 60 minute, 90 minute, 120 minute, Midas Touch, Olde School, Chicory Stout & Palo Santo Marron
One Night Only Event

The 23rd Annual NYC Homebrewer's Guild Holiday Party/Meeting! Featuring you! As per usual (in recent years), it will be a pot luck meeting with members new and old bringing foods, camaraderie and homebrew. We will hold a magnificent raffle, sing songs of cheer and ...well, to be decided...ugly sweater contest?
In order to get a head count,...

On December 18, 1981, Tom Brokaw signed off as co-anchor of the Today Show, "Taps," featuring a young Tom Cruise and Sean Penn debuted in theaters, Olivia Newton John was topping the charts with "Physical," and Chris O'Leary was born.

One of these things is far less significant than the others, but the last one is the one...

You're invited to the ninth annual Alcoholiday party! For you first timers, Cara and The Rev throw this party every December to celebrate a year full of friendship and good memories. So please come on down and spread good cheer through the magic of alcohol and prepare to get mistleto' up.

Prepare for the return of the "Holiday...

Czech Pils
Dogtown Pale Ale
Undercover Investigation Shutdown '10
Hairy Eyeball
Fusion V
Wet Hop IPA
Imperial Stout
Sucks
Lucky 13.alt
Fusion VII
Brown Shugga 2007!

and

Hop Stoopid CASK!

Wowee Zowee! FZ Bottles too!

In honor of the publication of The Oxford Companion to Beer, we’ve planned a series of beer events that we’ll promote over the next year. The events are going to start with ‘A’ and work their way to ‘Z’ – mirroring the format of The Companion.

With that said, the Birdsall House is proud to announce the first in a series of events...

We at Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project proudly don't judge whether you should get sweets or coal in your stocking. To celebrate this fact, Sunswick 35/35 is hosting a Good Time Holiday Social with us and a Shelton Brothers imported classic series, Mad Elf!
Come by and sip some of these delicious beers and our Pretty Beers including our very...

Team BeerAdvocate will be in town. BeerAdvocate magazine also turns 5. Join us as we celebrate with good beer, food, and people.

http://beeradvocate.com/events/info/49933

We'll be driving up from Dogfish Head so we're not 100% sure on the times for the first two stops yet, but we'll definitely be at Rattle 'n' Hum from...

Join us as we welcome Sixpoint Brewery for simultaneous events at all 3 Barcade locations on Saturday, December 10th at 12pm.

This event serves as a launch party for the "Barcade Beer Project" - a series of beers to be brewed by Sixpoint and served exclusively at Barcade. These beers are a series of re-releases of retired styles...

TICKETS HERE: http://www.getrealny.com/beerbarfest/#tickets

WHAT: Get Real NY returns this December with its fourth festival – the Beer Bar Fest NYC. The Beer Bar Fest, a premier craft beer and food event, will bring together eight of the city's best beer bars at one location. Long gone are the days when craft beer bars were known just...

IDLE HANDS 2nd WHITE CHRISTMAS WINTER WARMER BEER EXTRAVAGANZA!

As Beer Santa Says; “HOps – HOps – HOps!”

Friday, December 9th
7 pm until we run out!

It’s that time of Beer everybody!! The Winter Warmers are here!! It’s Beer Sommelier Rev’s FAVORITE style of beer and since he chooses all the beers we pour, he’s pouring A LOT! Get...

Holy moly, this is going to be a big one! Bobby and the Gang over at the Gate have been holding on to a couple of gems from Ballast Point and Two Brothers for us for a few years now and on Thursday, December 8th they are all coming out of the woodwork! Check out the lineup and see you there!

Ballast Point:
Victory at Sea w Vanilla CASK
Sculpin IPA...

One Night of Special Beers from Harpoon:
IPA, Wnter Warmer, Munich Dark, 100 Barrel Series: Spruce Tip, Leviathan Barley Wine & Leviathan Quad
Come taste them all at this one night event!

Please come celebrate our opening.

There will be giveaway's such as 32 oz Growler fills, 64 oz Growler fills, a $50 Gift Certificate and Glassware.

There will be some very special taps running, so get there early before they kick!

Sixpoint Brewery Presents Outside the Box - the Official Knights of Bruklyn Afterparty.

On Wednesday, December 7th - our homeboys, Outside the Box, will be playing songs from their new album, "Bridge", as well as a bunch of tunes from The Band to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Last Waltz.

We are taking over the taps in the...

‘Tis the season.

Exactly what it’s the season for differs for each person. That’s why were offering a wide array of beer for our Holiday Beer Celebration.

From the very traditional (Sierra Celebration, Anchor Christmas, St. Bernardus Christmas, He’Brew Jewbelation 15) to the Tiger traditional Shelton Brothers Holiday Offerings...

Join us this Tuesday for a tasting of some of the smaller breweries in Belgium. The list:

1. Vapeur Saison de Pipaix bottles
2. t' Smisje Blonde bottles
3. De Dolle Arabier bottles
4. t' Smisje Guido bottles
5. De Glazen Toren Cuvee Angelique bottles
6. De Dolle Oerbier Reserva

The tasting starts at 7:30pm, hope to see you out.