Welcome to our Foursquare page! Here, we'll give you tips about the best spots to have a craft brew in New York City... and occasionally from the road, too!
Beginning March 5th, join these bars from the East Village and Lower East Side as they spend the 47 days of Lent featuring Trappist, Abbey and Belgians in the "Drink Like a Monk" tradition!
Bars with the Good Beer Seal, which recognizes great independently-owned destinations that support craft beer, beer education, and the community. July is Good Beer Month! (www.goodbeerseal.com)
Tired of the same old song? Saddle up to this list of the newest craft beer spots to open in NYC - the newest is listed first. We'll update this list whenever a new spot opens, so check back often!
A Beer Garden is outdoors, has natural vegetation, communal seating, and beer. PR flacks try to pass off backyards or German bars as beer gardens; they're not. Here are NYC's only 3 real beer gardens.
"A worthy craft beer option in Midtown with 60 beers on tap from the likes of Radiant Pig, Founders, Ommegang, and Bell's. Even with the great tap list, the amazing food outshines the beer."
"Stone Street's beer scene gets a German flair at this bi-level spot with 24 brews on tap and a menu featuring beef stroganoff, wurst, and - of course - shareable jumbo pretzels."
"This German beer bar, opened by two Brooklyn residents that grew up in the Black Forest region of Germany, serves up over a dozen traditional brews on tap and all the traditional food to go with it!"
"This Astoria gastropub got a wake-up call and added 16 rotating craft taps in place of what was a bland beer menu last fall, adding another worthy beer spot to a Broadway stretch teeming with them."
"Its location screams "frat bar," but the 24 craft beers on tap scream back otherwise... and so do the upscale takes on bar food and the signature $23 Bone Marrow Burger."
"The Wiley empire that owns spots like Bar Great Harry and Owl Farm take their talents to Bed-Stuy with 12 craft brewson tap, visiting food vendors, and - naturally - two pinball machines in the back."
