issue 12 - march / april 2005

New York City’s Free Independent Beer Magazine
The Gotham
IMBIBER
Issue 12
March – April 2005
Bartender ‘Kookie’ serves real ales at The Brazen Head’s recent cask festival. Photo: Alex Hall
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In This Issue:
Beer Calendar
Legends Is No Urban Legend
Beerman & Firkin
City Beer Happenings
Recent Beer Events – Gallery
4
5
9
11
14
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The Gotham Imbiber
Is published every two months at the
beginning of January, March, May,
July, September, and November.
Editor/Publisher:
Alex Hall
The Gotham Imbiber
43 St. Marks Avenue
Brooklyn
NY11217-2403
U.S.A.
Tel. +1 917 957 7623
Email:
alex@cask-ale.co.uk
Mission: The aim of The Gotham Imbiber is to
promote awareness of microbrewed beers and
where to obtain them in and around New York
City, especially cask-conditioned ales which are
sadly only available in a handful of outlets
citywide.
The Gotham Imbiber magazine originated as a
sister publication to the U.K. beer magazine ‘The
Independent Imbiber’. Be aware that English
spellings may crop up within these pages!
This is a magazine, unlike others, where lovers of
microbrewed beers can submit articles for
publication.
Intending writers please note that this magazine
is about commercially-available beers, the
microbreweries that produce them, and even the
people who drink them. It is not intended to
promote home-brewing in articles on these pages
(sorry!), as that would be 'preaching to the
converted' as such - and would reduce the space
available for microbrewery-related material.
Disclaimer: Although accuracy is checked as far
as possible, no responsibility can be taken by
The Gotham Imbiber for false, misleading, or
inaccurate information. This magazine is entirely
independent, and is not associated in any way
with any organisation, brewery, or bar. All
opinions expressed are those of the individual
contributor concerned, and not those of The
Gotham Imbiber. Any resemblance between real
life characters and those appearing in fictional
stories or cartoons in this magazine are purely
coincidental.
Deadline for issue 13 is Monday 18th April 2005
for publication in May 2005.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to Felice Wechsler
and all who contributed.
CHEAP MACRO BEER = CHEAP MACRO TASTE
(YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR) DON’T YOU DESERVE BETTER?
Beer Calendar
Forthcoming craft beer events which we recommend…
LOCAL EVENTS IN NEW YORK CITY
Wednesday 16th March 2005, 6pm: Sixpoint Brewery Promotoion. Featuring a selection of
beers from Brooklyn’s new Sixpoint Brewery. The Blind Tiger Ale House, 518 Hudson
Street, Manhattan. Details: 1 212 675 3848; http://www.blindtiger.citysearch.com.
Sunday 20th March 2005, 3pm: Anniversary Party. Featuring special kegs and 1996
prices! The Blind Tiger Ale House, 518 Hudson Street, Manhattan. Details:
1 212 675 3848; http://www.blindtiger.citysearch.com.
Wednesday 23rd March 2005, 6pm: Vintage Beer Festival. Featuring rare aged kegs.
The Blind Tiger Ale House, 518 Hudson Street, Manhattan. Details: 1 212 675 3848.
Wednesday 23rd March 2005: Official
Details: http://www.sixpointcraftales.com
Sixpoint
Brewery
Manhattan
Launch.
Thursday
24th
March
2005:
Official
Sixpoint
Brewery
Brooklyn
Launch.
At Spuyten Duyvil, Barcade, and others. Details: http://www.sixpointcraftales.com
Thursday
24th
March
2005:
Hop
Devil
129 St. Marks Place, Manhattan (at Avenue A).
Grill
Grand
Opening
Party.
Monday 4th April 2005, 7.30pm: Stone Brewery Beer Dinner. Agave Restaurant,
140 7th Avenue South, Manhattan. Five course meal (Southwestern cuisine) paired with
five top class Stone brews. Reservations required. Details: 1 212 989 2100.
Tuesday 5th April 2005, from 5pm: Dogfish Head Night and American Beer DVD release.
Barcade, 388 Union Avenue, Brooklyn. Details: http://www.sixhundred.com
Wednesday 13th April 2005, 7.30pm: Malted Barley Appreciation Society of NYC.
Monthly meeting, Mugs Ale House, 125 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The guest speaker is to be announced. Details: http://hbd.org/mbas.
Saturday 16th April 2005, 1pm & 6pm: Brewtopia World Beer Festival. Metropolitan Pavilion,
125 West 18th Street, Manhattan. $40 per session. Details: http://www.brewtopiafest.com.
Friday 6th – Sunday 8th May 2005: 6th Tri-Annual ‘Cask Head’ Real Ale Festival.
The Brazen Head, 228 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. Full details: 1 718 488 0430 or see
http://www.brazenheadbrooklyn.com nearer the time.
EVERY TUESDAY, 7pm: Bierkraft, 191 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
(at Union Street). Weekly beer tasting and cheese pairing, sometimes featuring a
guest speaker from the trade. Details: 1 718 230 7600; http://www.bierkraft.com.
EVENTS OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY
Saturday 26th March 2005, 1pm: Philadelphia Split Thy Skull. Sugar Mom’s Church Street
Lounge, 225 Church Street, Philadelphia, PA. Phone 1 215 925 8219 for details.
Saturday 2nd April 2005, Noon: Weyerbacher Brewing Company’s Open House.
905-G Line Street, Easton, PA. Details: http://www.weyerbacher.com/
Saturday 23rd – Sunday 24th April 2005: Tap New York 2005. Hunter Mountain, NY.
Up to 100 beers, $39 per day ($35 in advance). Details: http://www.tap-ny.com/
Wednesday 27th – Saturday 30th April 2005: New England Real Ale Exhibition (NERAX).
George Dilboy Post, Davis Square, Somerville, MA. Featuring an incredible range of caskconditioned beers from this country and the U.K. Details: http://www.nerax.org/
Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th June 2005: Glastonwick 2005. Shoreham Airport, Shoreham-bySea, West Sussex, England (near Brighton). About 50 rare cask-conditioned beers
(arranged by your editor) and quality entertainment. Frequent trains run to Shoreham-bySea from London & Gatwick Airport. Full details: http://www.cask-ale.co.uk/beerfestival.html.
Legends Is No Urban Legend
A Tale of Legendary Scottish Kelpies and Skull Splitters
by Alex Hall
In association with
The Gotham Imbiber
and
local
distributor
S.K.I.
Beer Corporation,
Maryland-based
craft beer importer Legends Limited are
beginning to increase sales of their British
range of craft beers in New York City. In
addition to bottled delights, kegs and casks
are now appearing in bars here for the first
time – promoted by your hard-working
editor
who
recently
became
NYC
representative for Legends (covering all
boroughs except The Bronx).
The portfolio of beer brands is small but
impressive. All beers are from Northern
England
and
Scotland:
Moorhouse’s,
Daleside, and Darwin Breweries represent
the former, while Heather Ales / Williams
Brothers and Orkney Breweries represent
Scotland’s rich brewing heritage.
Moorhouse’s Brewery is currently exporting
two beers, namely Black Cat and Pendle
Witches Brew. Black
Cat is thought to be
the only authentic
British beer of the
traditional
but
endangered
Dark
Mild-style
that
is
exported here; the
beer gained global
recognition in 2000 when it won the
coveted ‘Supreme Champion Beer of
Britain’ award at CAMRA’s Great British
Beer Festival in London. Black Cat has a
subtle hoppiness and is designed as a
‘quaffing’
beer.
Pendle
Witches Brew is a 5.1%
Premium Bitter (or ‘ESB’)
named
after
the
welldocumented
witches
historically associated with
the area of Lancashire where
the brewery is situated.
Daleside is a small brewery
in North Yorkshire whose beers were still
awaiting state registration at the time of
writing, but you can look forward to such
delights as Old
Legover,
Monkey
Wrench,
and
Morocco
Ale
coming soon.
The sole Darwin beer imported has a lot of
history to it. Original Flag Porter is a
recreation of a mid-19th Century porter
recipe; the yeast used for primary
fermentation is, incredibly, the result of
careful cultivation of the yeast extracted
from bottles of beer which had lain
undisturbed in
a shipwreck at
the bottom of
the
English
Channel
for
the best part
of
two
centuries! The
wooden bottle
stoppers
covered
by
wax seals had
amazingly
remained intact for all that time under the
sea. Most of the yeast cells had died since
the vessel floundered way back in 1825,
but a some cells were still alive – enough
for Dr. Keith Thomas of Brewlab,
Sunderland, England, to grow into a healthy
batch of the ancient strain ready for
fermenting freshly-brewed wort. Original
Flag Porter is the result, using the
rejuvenated historic yeast - and using only
malt and hops which have not been treated
with pesticides or other modern chemicals,
therefore keeping the recipe as close to the
1800s as possible.
Still on the subject of historic
beers, Heather Ales offers a
whole selection of them.
Their flagship beer, Fraoch
Heather Ale, is a throwback
to when heather was used in
beer instead of hops – the
cooler Scottish climate has
never been good for hopgrowing, which is traditionally done mainly
in Southern England. The hot wort is racked
onto a bed of heather to infuse for an hour
prior to the start of fermentation. Look out
for this tasty,
slightly
flowery beer
in bottles and
kegs.
Other beers from Heather Ales are just as
traditional. Kelpie is a recreation of an old
agricultural tradition from Scotland’s West
Highlands where barley fields were fertilised
with bladderwrack seaweed from nearby
beaches. To recreate the flavours that the
seaweed would have imparted into the
barley, a small amount of the aquatic plant
is added to the mash tun. The result is a
clean-tasting beer with a faint ‘ocean
breeze’ aroma, and a rich, slightly sweet
malt texture coming through cleanly on the
palate. There are no fishy or sea salt
characteristics, which some people assume
prior to trying the
beer.
Kelpie
is
brewed
with
all
organic malt and
hops,
though
it
cannot be officially
certified
organic
due to the use of
the wild seaweed.
The Kelpie name
refers to the old
word for mythical
creatures said to live in Scottish lochs – The
Loch Ness Monster fable is the kelpie that
most people have heard of; the illustration
on the bottle label is the ancient
Pictish symbol for a kelpie.
Grozet, also from Heather Ales, is
another
piece
of
Scotland’s
resurrected brewing heritage. This
medieval wheat beer recipe uses ripe
Scottish-grown gooseberries in the
secondary fermentation; prior to that,
the wort utilises lager malt, wheat
malt, hops, bog myrtle (sweet gale),
and meadowsweet (a perennial herb
of the rose family). This brew is a
fascinating recreation of what monks
and ‘luckies’ (Scottish alewives)
brewed in medieval times, complex
and one to savour.
Ebulum is a very dark and tasty brew, fairly
strong at 6.5%. This silky-smooth ale, again
from Scotland’s history books, is fermented
with the help of Scottish elderberries, and
uses oats, herbs, and wheat together with
malted barley in the mash. Elderberries
have been used through the centuries as
natural healing agents for a wide range of
ailments.
The final historic brew from Heather Ales is
Alba. Dating back to
the
age
of
the
Vikings, the recipe
for
Alba
includes
spruce and pine. This
imparts woody-malty
notes into this tawnybrown, well-balanced
ale. It deservedly won
a gold medal at the
1998 World Beer
Championships.
Heather Ales also
brews
some
‘normal’
beers
under the name
Williams Brothers
at their brewery in
the town of Alloa,
which has a rich
brewing
heritage.
Look out for a
limited supply of
casks of Williams’
Gold
(3.9%),
Williams’ Black (4.2%), and Williams’ Red
(4.5%).
Off the northern coast of Caithness,
the far northern tip of Scotland, lie
the Orkney Islands. In the late 1980s
The Orkney Brewery was founded in
a converted schoolhouse, and has
since expanded greatly to the point
where their quality craft beers can be
found this side of the Atlantic. Dark
Island is their best seller here, a
delicious 4.6% dark, slightly peaty
ale which has won an impressive
array of awards.
Dragonhead Stout (4.0%) is another
dark Orkney ale, richer and roastier
than Dark Island. Again, this beer has
won several major awards; try pairing
it with some strong cheese for a
wonderful taste sensation.
The Red MacGregor (5.0%) is a midstrength ‘red ale’ whose name refers to
Scottish hero Rob Roy
MacGregor
(1671-1734).
Orkney Brewery’s founder
Roger
White
is
a
descendant
of
the
MacGregor
Clan,
and
named
this
beer
appropriately.
The Red
MacGregor is a smooth,
floral,
superbly-balanced
ale which won a gold
medal at the 2002 Brewing
Industry
International
Awards in London.
Last but certainly not least, Skull Splitter
(8.5%) is a mighty offering from Orkney
Brewery. A reddish-hued, slightly vinous
Scottish Strong Ale, Skull Splitter is
dangerously drinkable as it is unusually
smooth for its strength. The
original ‘Skull Splitter’ was
Thorfin Hausakliuuf, the
Seventh Viking Earl of
Orkney, who lived and ruled
around 1,050 years ago.
Life in those parts then was
dangerous
and
violent,
hence his nickname. While
Thorfin
lived
to
die
naturally, his five sons all
succumbed
to
the
battlefield. Skull Splitter is a
complex, warming strong
ale that can be paired with a
range of foods; it is one of those beer that is
ideal for imbibing on cold, snowy nights
akin to the winter climate of the Orkney
Islands.
NYC stockists of Legends imported craft beers
A new feature in The Gotham Imbiber is to list all known permanent outlets of Legends’ beers. This will be
updated every issue, and is a free service to stockists. Note that few outlets carry the entire range, and some
only carry one brand from the portfolio. Bars and restaurants are in bold, while shops and wholesalers are in
italics (ordinary typeface). Bars which will be taking kegs or casks on a one-off or occasional basis are excluded
from this list – sorry, it’s permanent outlets only.
Manhattan
Swift’s Hibernian Lounge, 34 East 4th Street 10003
Alta Restaurant, 64 West 10th Street 10011
B & E Quality Beverage, 511 West 23rd Street 10011
Peculier Pub, 145 Bleecker Street 10012
Jekyll & Hyde, 91 7th Avenue South 10014
The Other Room, 143 Perry Street 10014
The Slaughtered Lamb, 182 West 4th Street 10014
Hercules Fancy Grocery, 27 Morton Street 10014
The Ginger Man, 11 East 36th Street 10016
House of Brews, 363 West 46th Street 10036
St. Andrews, 120 West 44th Street 10036
Brooklyn
The Brazen Head, 228 Atlantic Avenue 11201
Eagle Provisions, 628 5th Avenue 11215
Bierkraft, 191 5th Avenue 11217
Slope Food Market, 475 Bergen Street 11217
The Garden, 921 Manhattan Avenue 11222
Rogers Beer Distributors, 1167 Rogers Avenue 11226
Thrifty Beverage Center, 2115 Coyle Street 11229
American Beer Distributors, 256 Court Street 11231
East Coast Beer Company, 316 37th Street 11232
Key Food, 369 Flatbush Avenue 11238
YMK Fruit & Veg., 118-18 Liberty Avenue 11419
Queens
B & B Beverage, 215-45 Northern Boulevard 11361
69th Street Beer Distributors, 5513 69th Street 11378
Home Service Beer Corp., 71-31 73rd Place 11385
Legends’ brands are now available in cases, casks, and kegs in
New York City* via The Gotham Imbiber – phone Alex Hall on
(917) 957-7623 or email alex@cask-ale.co.uk
for prices and further details.
Distributed by S.K.I. Beer Corporation, tel. (718) 821-7200.
*All NYC boroughs except The Bronx.
Beerman and Firkin
by Felice Wechsler
39 Grove Street,
The West
Village,NYC.
www.lederhosennyc.com
Our bar is now
open with
authentic German
beers & wines,
and our kitchen is
to open within the
next 2 weeks.
Come and
experience
"Genuine German
Goodness."
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City Beer Happenings
Compiled by Alex Hall
More Cask Outlets Coming
In addition to the long-awaited handpump
due to appear on the bar of The Waterfront
Ale House (540 2nd Avenue, Manhattan),
look out for two new bars that are expected
to sell cask. The Hop Devil Grill (129 St.
Marks Place, at Avenue A) is due to open in
– a highly popular reference book which
lists thousands of British pubs selling good
quality cask ale. Knowing that they would
lose trade by not being recommended in
CAMRA’s guide book, many publicans soon
changed any fake handpumps they had for
regular taps in the hope of future inclusion.
The British fakes were usually dispensing
keg Scrumpy Jack Cider, the brandname
was quickly tarnished over there because of
the cider maker’s intent to mislead.
There are at least two other bars in the city
known to have fake handpumps.
Uptown Cask Ithaca
mid-March, closely followed by Stout (on
West 33rd Street). The Hop Devil Grill is in
the former Stingy Lulu’s ‘50s diner; there is
no connection with the similarly-named
Victory beer.
Euro Invasion
The Atlantic Chip Shop (129 Atlantic
Avenue, Brooklyn) and Lederhosen (39
Grove Street, Manhattan) both opened in
mid-February, respectively specialising in
quality English and German food and beer.
We wish both places every success.
Pull The Other One
On the negative side, Iona (180 Grand
Street,
Williamsburg,
Brooklyn)
has
installed two fake handpumps which
dispense lightly-carbonated beer from
depressurised
kegs.
This
confuses,
misleads, and blurs the distinction between
regular keg (tap) beer and unfiltered,
unpasteurised cask-conditioned ale drawn
manually out of a tapped firkin.
In Britain in the 1990s, fake handpumps
were all but banished following a campaign
by CAMRA which saw dozens of pubs
excluded from their annual Good Beer Guide
The manager of George Keeley (485
Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan) has taken
the initiative to purchase two firkins (10.8
gallon casks) of his own. These are
intended to be used for supplies of the
excellent Ithaca Brewery’s range of beers in
cask-conditioned form which will be found
soon on the handpump at George Keeley.
This is the second New York City bar to own
its own firkins for sending empty to the
various microbreweries who only have kegs
to rack beer into, the other one being The
Brazen Head (228 Atlantic Avenue,
Brooklyn).
Nearly Brewtopia Time!
The biggest beer festival ever in Manhattan,
the Brewtopia World Beer Festival, will
take place on Saturday 16th April at the
spacious Metropolitan Pavilion (125 West
18th Street, Manhattan). Tickets are
apparently selling fast for this indoor
festival which promises to be a great
experience sampling beers from this
country and overseas. Brewtopia was first
held last year at the Metropolitan Pavilion.
Sixpoint Update
Sixpoint Craft Ales will be doing two official
launches on 23rd and 24th March. The bars
involved had not been disclosed at the time
of writing. Sixpoint’s latest brews have been
‘Otis’ (an Oatmeal Stout), ‘SMP’ (a Smoked
Baltic Porter), ‘Sweet Action’ (an American
Blonde ale), and a Belgian-style Abbey Single.
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Beer Anagrams
These are scrambled names of locally-available British beers. The answers are on page 15.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
ROS PULLS KINKY LETTER?
ODD LARGE TARTAN KEGS?
ELF LURED LORD, NO PINS?
CATHERINE SPOOK BUTT?
MEEK ENID, COWARDLY HENS?
6. THE ZERO GATHER?
7. SARCASTIC LAD RISK TRAM?
8. PIGEON FANG WARRIOR LIT LARD?
9. WHO RESIST DRAB MILLER?
10. DO SEE OLD DEVIL LAGER?
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LOCAL MICROBREW à LOCAL COMMUNITY, LOCAL ECONOMY, LOCAL
WORKFORCE, LOCAL JOBS, LOCAL TASTE…
Write a Caption – Issue 11’s Results
Here are the best quotes from last issue’s Write a
Caption. Congratulations go to Ken Mondschein
who wins a branded glass from Bierkraft (winner
collects) for the entry below in bold.
“Little does Mum realize, we've replaced
her beer with Folger's Crystals...”
" Once Mum drinks enough, I'll introduce
her to Ray...
“How many was that, Mum? Six? Seven?
So about that Porsche you were buying
me...”
“If you have enough, Mom, Dad'll start to
look kinda cute again…”
“Dammit, there’s a Brooklyn tap handle
in my hair…”
“Yes, we both had Old Stock
Ale for breakfast…”
“All this delicious Red Ale is
making my hair turn red…”
“Thishh ishhh my local bar,
Mom – The Tind Bliger. Hic…”
“Yes, it’s Heather Ale!”
“Is that a Dogfish Head tap
handle in your pocket or are
you just pleased to see us?”
“Don’t just stand there, bring
on the barleywines!”
“Are you from Vogue?”
“IN THE BIG COOKIE OF
THE BEER BUSINESS,
SMALL BREWERS ARE
THE CHOCOLATE
CHIPS”
Fritz Maytag,
Anchor Brewery.
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Recent Beer Events – Gallery
The Brazen Head’s 5th
‘Cask Head’ Real Ale
Festival,
18-20 February 2005
Left: Popular bartender Kate of the
Blind Tiger enjoys some tasty cask
ale at the Brazen Head.
Below: The vintage English beer
engines were dispensing Dark Star
Golden Gate, Dark Star Original,
and Hop Back Entire Stout (all UK).
Photos: Alex Hall
Right: The Brazen Head’s set up
included five casks on gravity
dispense which were cooled by a
hand-built refrigerator, and five more
in the foreground cooled by a glycol
pump – these were connected to beer
engines for dispense, two of which
can be seen on the far right.
Photo: Alex Hall
David Copperfield’s
5th Cask Festival,
1-5 March 2005
Left: Some Copperfield’s customers
having a good time at the cask
festival.
Below: Bartender Julie showing the
set-up of the cooled, insulated stillage
in the former Mafia wine cellar
underneath David Copperfield’s.
Photos: Keith Reichenbach, Evelyn
Castillo.
Anagram Answers
1.ORKNEY ‘SKULLSPLITTER’;
2.DARK STAR ‘GOLDEN GATE’;
3.FULLERS ‘LONDON PRIDE’;
4.HOP BACK ‘ENTIRE STOUT’;
5.DALESIDE ‘MONKEY
WRENCH’;
6.HEATHER ‘GROZET’;
7.DARK STAR ‘CRITICAL
MASS’;
8.DARWIN ‘ORIGINAL FLAG
PORTER’;
9.WILLIAMS BROTHERS ‘RED’;
10.DALESIDE ‘OLD LEGOVER’.
www.cask-ale.co.uk
for
The Gotham Imbiber (including all back issues);
New York City Cask Ale & Good Beer Bar Guides;
The National U.S.A. & Canadian Cask Outlet Databases;
and much more!
REAL CASK ALE – T H E F U L L N Y C L I S T
This is The Gotham Imbiber’s free listing of all NYC bars that serve cask-conditioned ale.
The Blind Tiger Ale House, 518 Hudson Street, Manhattan.
The Brazen Head, 228 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn.
David Copperfield’s, 1394 York Avenue, Manhattan.
d.b.a., 41 First Avenue, Manhattan.
George Keeley, 485 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan.
The Ginger Man, 11 East 36th Street, Manhattan.
The Lighthouse Tavern,243 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn (cask temporarily suspended).
Mugs Ale House, 125 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn (no casks in summer).
The Spotted Pig, 314 West 11th Street, Manhattan.
Spuyten Duyvil, 359 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn.
The Waterfront Ale House, 155 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn (no casks in summer).
CASK COMING SOON: The Waterfront Ale House, 540 2nd Avenue, Manhattan.
CASK COMING SOON: The Hop Devil Grill, 129 St. Marks Place, Manhattan.
CASK COMING SOON: Stout, West 33rd Street, Manhattan (near Madison Square Garden).
WARNING: There are now at least two bars in lower Manhattan and one in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn, dispensing beer from fake handpumps. If a bar you visit in NYC appears to have
working handpumps and is not on the above list, it is either very new to selling cask ale
(unlikely) or they are trying to fool you into thinking their depressurised keg beer is authentic
cask. Fullers’ beers will often be seen on the offending devices. The Gotham Imbiber says
don’t buy it.
CORRUPT EMINENT DOMAIN ABUSE THREATENS
BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAR
Freddy’s Bar in Prospect Heights is up against the corrupt and taxpayer-money-wasting schemes
of property development juggernaught Forest City Ratner, who want to raze the entire
community to build a corporate concrete jungle – a small part of which is planned to be an arena
for the New Jersey Nets basketball team. Don’t believe the lies, this scheme is unjust and
corrupt – benefitting no-one in the local community!
Directions to Freddy’s: 2 or 3 train to Bergen Street station, then walk round the corner to 485
Dean Street to enjoy a fine pint of Harpoon UFO wheat beer (or another of your choice) in
friendly surroundings. Links to websites detailing the current situation:
http://www.gotard.com/badd/
http://www.fansforfairplay.com
http://www.nostadium.homestead.com
http://nycbasketball.rivals.com
http://www.fairdevelopmentbrooklyn.net
Freddy’s own website can be seen at http://www.freddysbackroom.com
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Stella Artois – Tennent's – Whitbread.
When you buy any of the above brands, you
are funding the world’s biggest brewing
corporation - InBev (formerly Interbrew).
The Gotham Imbiber says InBev’s greedy,
voracious fat cat directors and investors are
fat enough. SUPPORT THE MICROBREWING
INDUSTRY INSTEAD!
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