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An Introduction

Greetings! I’m Chris O’Leary, the editor of Brew York, and a fan of craft beer, traveling, and traveling for craft beer. So far, I’ve visited over 600 breweries around the world, with plenty more to come.

From Denver to Dublin, San Diego to Stockholm, Burlington to Brussels, and everywhere in between, new breweries large and small are sprouting. I created this site to share with you some of these special places. Some have been around for generations and some have barely been around for a year, but all have a story behind them. Each weekday, I’ll share a photo and a short but sweet profile of a brewery I’ve visited.

And if you’re worried I’ll eventually run out, think about it this way: there are over 4,600 breweries in the US alone. These days, even if I visited a new brewery every day, I couldn’t keep up with the new openings alone.

I hope you enjoy this little project! And if you wish, follow my travels on Twitter and Instagram. Cheers!

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If you’re somehow still following me on here in spite of my relative silence, thanks! Here’s a new project I’m working on -- hope you’ll follow it!

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Welp, I'm fucked.

The email address I used to sign up for Tumblr is now defunct. And now Tumblr has inexplicably and unexpectedly decided to lock me out of my account on my Desktop until I can reset my password... which I can only do if they email me at my now-defunct email address. On their site, they say that if I have no access to that email, they have no way "to verify that you're the owner." This account, of course, I hadn't used much lately, but Brew York was going strong and had 62,000+ followers. Which means my beer website that I've busted my ass on for the last 8 years is completely and utterly fucked. I still have access to my account via the mobile app, so at least I can post this. But after years of bumps in the road with Tumblr, this is really the icing on the cake.

Definitions, according to the GOP

Liberal media bias: Asking the same challenging questions that a politician would expect a journalist to ask to their opponents.

Journalist: a shill for a political party that ignores scandals, hypocrisy, and anything else that could possibly paint a politician in a bad light during a line of questioning.

“Gotcha questions:” Straightforward questions with straightforward answers that, when answered honestly, make a politician look straightforwardly like a terrible person.

CNBC: a bastion of liberal media bias, employing left-leaning commentators like Rick Santelli (whose on-air rant inspired the Tea Party movement), Joe Kernen (a purported birther), and Larry Kudlow (a former Reagan economist and Republican Senatorial Candidate).

I’d like a re-do of this past weekend. Preferably with a little less beer and a lot more self-control.

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Reasons the Internet Exists, according to clickbait headlines

Earl Sinclair From ‘Dinosaurs’ Covering The Notorious B.I.G.

Drunk Ron Swanson Dancing To Daft Punk

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Ryan Gosling refusing to eat cereal

Rob Ford on a Teeter Totter

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Pardon me for thinking it exists for the open exchange of information across global networks.

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Everything You Need to Know About NYC Beer Week

KelSo staff pour their beer at the 2014 Opening Gala of NYC Beer Week. This year’s Opening Gala will be held Saturday at the Altman Building.

NYC Beer Week is almost here! Here’s the rundown of everything you need to know — the events, the happenings, the beers, and more — to get you ready for the citywide ten-day celebration of everything beer!There are still tickets for the biggest events of Beer Week, so mark these bad boys on your calendar!

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Alternately, "Everything You Need to Know About What I'll Be Doing For The Next Ten Days."

Lake Effect Snow is amazing. At the top, an apocalyptic scene from the junction of I-90 and I-190 just east of Buffalo, where cars are abandoned in 3-foot-deep snow drifts. At the bottom, 12 miles up I-190 on the north side of Buffalo, there's barely a dusting of snow on the ground.

Currently freaking out because I'm about to be interviewed about beer by someone who regularly interviews far more important people than me.

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Five years ago, we set out to create a little project to inform beer geeks in New York City about the latest happenings on the craft beer scene. Back then, the city was only starting to discover craft beer — fresh-faced spots like Rattle-N-Hum and The Pony Bar had just joined the handful of...

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Can't believe I've been doing this for five years. If you have some time on Saturday, swing by One Mile House to join me in toasting Brew York!

Holy shit, I'm really, actually going here in November.

#stockholm

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"We'll have it to you by the end of the day."

*Looks at watch, it's 5:05*

*Sighs heavily*

100 Breweries in 2014

I have a goal of visiting 100 breweries in 2014. Some new visits, some I've visited many times over. I'm pacing pretty well so far, and have a few trips where I'll be able to squeeze in plenty more. But, for the sake of counting, here's the rundown so far:

1. Broken Bow Brewery (Marbledale, NY) 2. The Bruery (Placentia, CA) 3. Bootlegger's Brewery (Fullerton, CA) 4. Golden Road Brewing (Los Angeles, CA) 5. Eagle Rock Brewery (Los Angeles, CA) 6. Angel City Brewery (Los Angeles, CA) 7. Haven Gastropub (Pasadena, CA) 8. Greenpoint Beer & Ale Co. (Brooklyn, NY) 9. Kane Brewing Company (Ocean, NJ) 10. Brooklyn Brewery (Brooklyn, NY) 11. Bronx Brewery (Bronx, NY) 12. Two Roads Brewing Company (Stratford, CT) 13. Gun Hill Brewery (Bronx, NY) 14. 508 Gastrobrewery (New York, NY) 15. Paulaner Brauhaus (New York, NY) 16. Singlecut Beersmiths (Astoria, NY) 17. Big Alice Brewing (Long Island City, NY) 18. Philadelphia Brewing Company (Philadelphia, PA) 19. Nodding Head Brewery & Restaurant (Philadelphia, PA) 20. Blue Point Brewing Company (Patchogue, NY) 21. Sandlot Brewery at Coors Field (Denver, CO) 22. Denver Beer Co. (Denver, CO) 23. Vine Street Pub & Brewery (Denver, CO) 24. Epic Brewing (Denver, CO) 25. Our Mutual Friend Malt & Brew (Denver, CO) 26. Lowdown Brewery + Kitchen (Denver, CO) 27. Bull & Bush Pub and Brewery (Denver, CO) 28. Crooked Stave Brewery (Denver, CO) 29. Station 26 Brewing Company (Denver, CO) 30. CAUTION: Brewing Company (Denver, CO) 31. Transmitter Brewing (Long Island City, NY) 32. Finback Brewery (Glendale, NY) 33. Flagship Brewing Co. (Staten Island, NY) 34. Sweet Mullets Brewing Co. (Oconomowoc, WI) 35. Delafield Brewhaus (Delafield, WI) 36. Lakefront Brewery (Milwaukee, WI) 37. Milwaukee Ale House (Milwaukee, WI) 38. Wrecking Bar Brewpub (Atlanta, GA) 39. Twain's Billiards and Tap (Decatur, GA) 40. SweetWater Brewing Company (Atlanta, GA) 41. 5 Seasons Brewing Company (Sandy Springs, GA) 42. Weeping Radish Farm Brewery (Grandy, NC) 43. Full Moon Cafe & Brewery (Manteo, NC) 44. Outer Banks Brewing Station (Kill Devil Hills, NC) 45. Burley Oak Brewing Company (Berlin, MD) 46. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (Milton, DE) 47. Mispillion River Brewing (Milford, DE) 48. Other Half Brewing Co. (Brooklyn, NY) 49. Bucket Brewery (Pawtucket, RI) 50. Brutopia Brewery & Kitchen (Cranston, RI) 51. Whalers Brewing Company (Wakefield, RI) 52. Proclamation Ale Company (Kingston, RI) 53. Lookout Brewing Company (Black Mountain, NC) 54. Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC) 55. Green Man Brewery (Asheville, NC) 56. Burial Beer Company (Asheville, NC) 57. Hi-Wire Brewing (Asheville, NC) 58. Asheville Brewing Company (Asheville, NC) 59. Twin Leaf Brewery (Asheville, NC) 60. Wedge Brewing Company (Asheville, NC) 61. One World Brewing (Asheville, NC) 62. Dutch Kills Beer Project (Long Island City, NY)

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This week is the 20th anniversary of one the greatest albums of our time.

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I went through two copies on Cassette, and I think I’m on my second CD of it

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Ha! I definitely wore out the cassette. And I think I wore out the cassingle for "Old Man & Me" in a week, after listening over and over on the 26-hour round trip drive on our family vacation to the Smokies in April of '96.

This week is the 20th anniversary of one the greatest albums of our time.

monkeychow said: I think it is incredibly disrespectful (and not very compassionate) about the people who are actually volunteering their time.

That would be a fair point if these people were volunteering. But poll workers get paid for their work, which is often (and unfortunately) the primary draw for the people who apply. This is a job that they are hired for. As in any other job, if they're not able to perform the duties required of them in an efficient manner, they shouldn't be hired to do it.

The poll workers I've encountered have been mainly very polite and I know they were trying to be helpful, but they're not doing their job properly.

And you bring up something I've considered: another way to help solve this problem would be to make these positions volunteer. It would probably offer an incentive for companies to allow their employees to take off work for a service day. I would gladly volunteer myself.

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Seriously, do it. Take a vacation day if you have to (even though, in a perfect world, you shouldn't have to). Do it for democracy's sake. I applied today, because today's primary was the last straw.

This morning, I went to my polling place to vote in a simple primary election where there was exactly one race to choose a candidate. I was only the fifth voter to vote in my district that day, but what should have taken less than a minute took me over five.

I know, you're thinking, "what's the big deal? It took you four extra minutes."

Here's the big deal: every delay I had was not the result of the process, but rather the result of an incompetent poll worker.

First, the information clerk told me I was at the wrong polling place because he couldn't distinguish between "Avenue" and "Street." After insisting that I was indeed at the right polling place because I live two blocks away and not two miles away, I pointed out his mistake and he reluctantly obliged and directed me to the correct table.

The clerk who looked up my name asked for my last name, and first heard my name as starting with an "L." I corrected her, telling her it began with an "O," and she still heard "L." I corrected her again, and she began turning through the alphabetical voter roll book PAGE BY PAGE, starting with the As, until she reached the Ls, paused, and then, after I told her "O" again, she continued to my name, passed it, and then returned back before finding it.

After taking a full minute to fill out a card that goes along with my ballot, checking each letter in my name in the book before writing it on the card, I was finally allowed to vote.

When I went to scan my ballot, an elderly man standing right next to the scanner gave me directions, but the slot for the ballot scanner was covered in loose documents that appeared to be related to the election. When I informed him of this, he made no effort to push them aside, so I had to shuffle them off to the sides just so I could cast my ballot.

This experience is not unusual for me, and from talking to other New York City voters, it's not unusual for the city, unfortunately.

So again, what's the big deal? Nearly every single election, we deal with the frustrations of working with people who are not fit to work as poll workers. In an election like this, a four-minute delay is not a big deal. But four minutes per voter adds up very quickly. If even 15 voters of the thousands in my district chose to vote at once, it would take an hour to let them all vote.

That's exactly why there are excruciatingly long waits and confusion at polling places during presidential elections and even some high-profile city and state elections. These are experiences that actually turn people off to voting and discourage them from coming to polling places in any election. The city's hiring of incompetent poll workers is undermining democracy.

So please help protect democracy. Join me and consider applying online to become a poll worker. Let's make voting easier for everyone in New York City.

On a moderately less depressing note, any idea how much it’ll cost me to fix my iPad screen since my AppleCare expired last month?

Also - I still have a +1 to this event on Saturday, if anyone wants to go to Western Mass in a van to tour a farm and malt house and eat a big dinner with a bunch of level-headed beer geeks and an emotionally unstable one.

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