By BENEDICT CAREY [NY TIMES – web link] Published: March 4, 2008 The urge to binge mindlessly, though it can strike at any time, seems to stir in the collective unconscious during the last weeks of winter. Maybe it’s the television images from places like Fort Lauderdale and Cabo San Lucas, of communications majors’ face …
Drinking tapped brew at home has always been appealing, however, you can’t always have 50+ friends over every time you want the fresh brew taste of a keg. Heineken has just stepped up and made this a little more manageable, introducing the Heineken/Krups BeerTender, available next week. Designed especially for those Heineken draft kegs you’ve …
If you get a chance, check out this craft beer event on Long Island, in Uniondale, NY. The 2nd Annual Spring Craft Beer Festival is a true craft beer tasting event featuring an incredible variety of beers from some of the finest brewers in the country. Local craft beers such as Blue Point Brewery and …
Drink your way to a slimmer figure you ask, oh yes, the liquid diet! Most light beers save only about 20 to 50 calories per bottle — and some even outweigh regular beers. It’s mostly marketing, says Garrett Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster and author of The Brewmaster’s Table. Want maximum taste, minimum guilt? Consult Men’s …
Sorry all, we’ve had computer problems as well the site’s been down. Might have something to do with the upgrades we did over the weekend: “People say Microsoft paid 14M$ for using the Rolling Stones song ‘Start me up’ in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed 14M$ only for a part of the song. …
Our next crawl will be next year y’all. Enjoy the holidays and the other Santa/Christmas Pub crawls going on in NYC. We’ll be starting up in Lower East Side for a full run down Rivington. Starting at our favorite lower Manhattan biergarten: Loreley’s at 2 pm. Cheers!
We at GPC are beer drinkers, which doesn’t necessarily qualify you enough to be a beer rater, so we deffer this to others to accomplish and we’ll take their word for it. Beer Advocate is a notable site we check, and if you haven’t checked it, feel free to hit them up. Their Top 100 …