What: Pop culture and transit facts trivia, with Stuart Post and Chris Kelley as MCs
When: Wednesday, January 17, from 7-9 pm
Where: New York Transit Museum, Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn Heights.
Must be: 21 or older. Refreshments provided by Brooklyn Brewery
Admission: $15 general admission, $10 Transit Museum or Transportation Alternatives members. Admission includes one drink. Tickets are available here.
Williamsburg’s Brooklyn Brewery will be expanding to Sweden by year’s end according to a recent blog post. The company plans a brewery in Stockholm as part of a partnership and exchange program between Brooklyn, D. Carnegie & Co. and Carlsberg Sweden.
Brooklyn Brewery: If you’re wondering “why Stockholm?”… it begins with the mutual appreciation of beer, food, music, art and all around good culture shared by Brooklyn and Sweden (even leading some to ponder if Sweden is the new Brooklyn). Brooklyn Brewery has a long history with Sweden highlighted by the fun fact that Sweden is our largest export market and second biggest market overall (right behind NYC) thanks to our importer and partner in Stockholm brewery, Carlsberg Sweden. We used to distribute the seductively delicious Carnegie Porter in New York back in the day, and in 2011 we collaborated with Carlsberg to produce a bourbon barrel-aged version of this classic beer to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Carnegie Brewery. And let us not forget about the BROOKLYN, SWEDEN music festival we launched last year that sent over 15 Brooklyn bands to Stockholm and Malmö. You could say it was just meant to be.
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Oktoberfest at Brooklyn Historical Society Tomorrow Evening
October 18, 2012 
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (Corner of Clinton) will host an Oktoberfest tomorrow evening (Thursday, October 18) from 6:00 to 8:00. You will be able to sample Brooklyn Brewery’s new Oktoberfest beer, and enjoy a performance by a local artist to be announced. Admission is free, but you must RSVP here. Hurry, because space is limited.
Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/49373
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BHS’s Final Summer Beer Garden Thursday Features Indie Artist Sarah Dooley
August 28, 2012 
This Thursday, August 30, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), will have its final Beer Garden of the season, featuring music by indie artist Sarah Dooley. The folks from Brooklyn Brewery will be there to serve their beers and ales, and to talk brewski. Shake Shack will be giving free samples of their “Brooklyn Blackout” custard. You can read more about the event and the artist here, and there’s a video of Sarah singing her song “Watching the Goonies at My House” after the jump.
Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/46453
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The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), begins its series of summer beer gardens on the patio in front of the historic building tomorrow evening (Thursday, May 31) from 6:00 to 8:00, with music by “one of Brooklyn’s hottest folk bands”, The Tres Amigos. (Shouldn’t that be Los Tres Amigos? No; they “embrace the spanglish of their name as artistic vision.”) Beer is by Brooklyn Brewery, and folks from there will be glad to talk beer with you as they pour.. Admission is free; drink tix are five bucks each. More details are here.
Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/41461
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I’d had a taste of Brooklyn Brewery’s Sorachi Ace beer at Borough President Marty Markowitz’s presser for Dine in Brooklyn (indeed, several tastings, as the Brooklyn Brewery folks were kind about refilling my little cup as I went around tasting food), and I wanted to try it again. This afternoon I spotted it at Lassen & Hennigs, and decided it would be an interesting accompaniment to my temporary bachelor (my wife is at an archivists’ meeting in Cape May, New Jersey) dinner of Trader Joe’s barbecued pulled pork on a bun accompanied by a mixed green salad with tomatoes and mushrooms topped with T.J.’s sesame soy ginger vinaigrette dressing. Above is a photo of the impressive 25.4 fluid ounce bottle, with its Champagne-style cork.
Here is a closer photo of the label. “Sorachi Ace” is the kind of hops used in making the beer.
When I pulled the cork, there was a nice little “pop.” I made the mistake of pouring a bit too fast, which resulted in a huge head. After allowing it to collapse enough to pour more beer, I settled down to drink and eat. Here are my tasting notes:
Color: deep amber.
Head: big, creamy, long-lasting.
Aroma: citrusy, hoppy, with floral overtones.
Taste: rich, not overly bitter, toasty, suggestion of apricots in the finish. After I wrote those tasting notes, I did a web search for “sorachi ace hops” and got this. While the article stresses a lemony quality of the hops, the comment by Ben (scroll down) refers to ” a really creamy, cloying, buttery element” that seems to agree with my “rich” and “toasty.”
Bottom line: an interesting, well made beer that stands up to flavorful food like BBQ pork. It would also be good to savor on its own.
Source: Self-Absorbed Boomer
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/tzVM/~3/b96YoAaPGEA/brooklyn-brewerys-sorachi-ace-beer.html