Heartland brewery NYC

rwcos wrote on 25 Dec 2004:

Heartland's... okay. Pricey for a brewpub, but the Farmer John's Oatmeal Stout and the Indiana Pale are solidly GOOD.

There's really only one brewpub in NYC worth going to, and that's Chelsea Brewing on Pier 59 or 60 on the Hudson River (around 18th St. or so). I suppose Times Square Brewing has rather good food, but its beer is mediocre at best; the seasonal can be good, however, as the Robust Porter was last visit (months ago).

Collins Bar (46th/8th) will have the best beer selection in your area.

Witzel

That echoes my impressions exactly from the time or two I've poked my head in at a Heartland. Nothing to write home about, but nothing to run away from screaming.

Have they gotten better? Because from what I recall from my last visit there (which, admittedly, by that time wasn't much, other than the cab driver that frightened us all to our very core) I wasn't terribly impressed by what they had. Even when I was at a stage where a simple vector for alcohol delivery was all I really was capable of processing.

NYC strikes me as a much better place to go looking for good beer bars in general, rather than a brewpub. There are more of the former, for one, and even the not-as-great ones still have better choices than the best brewpub.

-Steve

CBC is a very good brewpub. It wins fairly often at the GABF (one of two breweries in New York State that won this year, IIRC). While it doesn't brew fancy-styled beers, the ones that it brews are very good.

Beer bars will always have better beers than brewpubs. Collins Bar, Blind Tiger Ale House, and the Waterfront Ale House are good examples.

Phil =====visit the New York City Homebrewers Guild website:

FWIW I liked the Heartland beers I tried there, but it's more fun in warmer weather when they put tables & chairs out on the sidewalk. Food's OK there.

There is also the Greenwich Brewing Co. in the Village which is within walking distance of midtown - maybe 30 mins. It's at 418 6th Avenue at

9th.

Pjk

Greenwich "Brewing Company" is not a brewery, and never was. They are simply a bar that contracts out their beer from somewhere else...can't remember where at the moment.

Bill Coleman

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By coincidence, these beers are brewed by Chelsea.

Phil =====visit the New York City Homebrewers Guild website:

Amusingly, I believe they have had them brewed by Chelsea. Chelsea's dark beers, porters and stouts, are exceptional, BTW.

-- Lew Bryson

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