NYC Help Please

Hi there, I'll be visiting NYC during the Christmas holidays, staying near Times Square. Can anyone offer any recommendations for good beer bars or brewpubs in south Manhattan/Brooklyn please? I'm looking for a good range of beers from the region. PubCrawler.com is full of bars but personal recommendations are always best.

Also, does anyone know if the Fuller's pub (UK brewery) is still in NYC please? I think it was somewhere off 6th Av, around Radio City.

Thanks, Lee (Derby UK)

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Lee
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The best brewpub in the city is the Chelsea Brewing Company, on Chelsea Piers.

Among the best bars are Blind Tiger Ale House, d.b.a., Hop Devil, Waterfront Ale House (great food here), Mugs Ale House and Spuyten Duyvel

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

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Phil

Also, a bit closer to Times Square is the Gingerman; huge selection on tap, worth visiting at quieter times.

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dgs

Quieter times is the operative word here. The after work crowd is a bunch of Corona drinkers.

Phil

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Phil

I wouldn't recommend the place at 6pm on a Friday, no; 1pm on a Saturday, though, is quite nice. It was worse when there was still smoking in NYC.

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dgs

dgs wrote on 24 Nov 2005:

Also a bit closer than that is the Collins Bar, at 46th and 8th. Smaller selection of beer -- like 10 on tap -- but well chosen, and a wide representation. Blind Tiger shouldn't be missed, as they are quite possibly the best beer bar in Manhattan and might not be there come January. (Collins and the BT are brother bars.)

For Brooklyn, as Phil suggested, take the L train one stop into Brooklyn (Bedford Ave), walk north to 10th and Bedford for Mugs. If it's a Saturday afternoon, Brooklyn Brewery (a couple blocks west, and on 11th St.) will be open for tours if you're into that sort of thing.

Spuyten Duyvil is south and east of Mugs. Yahoo or Google will map the route, which is pleasant and no more than 10 minutes.

Worth checking out would be Barcade, near to Spuyten, with a lot of excellent NY state beer on tap and a few dozen arcade machines from the 1980s. Your scores will go up as you drink.

Witzel

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Dave Witzel

Wha-wha-whaaaaaaaat? BT losing its lease? Say it ain't so!

What has brought about this miserable state of affairs?

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dgs1

I'm partial to the Heartland Brewery. There are a few in Manhattan, but the one I go to is right in Times Square, on 43rd street just east of Broadway. They have a large selection, and always have an interesting seasonal selection, and every time I've been in there they've had a very attractive bar maid pulling the pints.

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If you're going to visit any of the Heartland locations, you're best off going to the one in the Empire State Build. It has small experimental batches there that the other locations don't have.

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

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Phil

Eh, not losing its lease, the bar and the rest of the building just need to be renovated by the building owner. They're the last tenants in the place (the several stories above are long-vacated), and don't quote *me* on this, but the building owner is rumored to want them back in the newly-renovated space, whenever that's complete.

If you go on a rainy day, you'll understand why renovations are necessary.

Witzel

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Dave Witzel

Hell, I went there on a dry day, and it was obvious then that the place was pretty worn down. I just hope the "renovations" don't take forever and result in a quadrupling of the rent. It would be a shame for NYC to lose what so many regard as the city's best beer bar.

And after 12/8, Seattle folk will be able to do what NYC-ers have been doing for a while now: go to bars and enjoy good beers without trying to savor the aromas through clouds of cigarette smoke. The citizens of the state of Washington have so willed it, FBoFW.

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dgs

Two good places...Pigale on 8th and 48th for both light and dark Leffe on tap. And Hallo Berlin on 10th and somewhere between 54th and 59th. It has a lot of German beers on tap. Both places have good food.

Pjk

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Pjk

Two good places...Pigale on 8th and 48th for both light and dark Leffe on tap. And Hallo Berlin on 10th and somewhere between 54th and 59th. It has a lot of German beers on tap. Both places have good food.

Pjk

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There was a Hallo Berlin in the 50s, Between 9th and 10th, but it closed a while ago. The other Hallo Berlin in Midtown, which is still open, is on 10th Avenue near 45th Street.

I have a website listing NYC area bars:

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It includes many recent draft lists, so you can have an idea of what's going to be on tap before you show up. To see how recently a list has been updated, check:

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Maybe you'll find them useful. Have a good visit!

Bill Coleman

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Bill Coleman

Yeah, those are the sorts of data points you can't extract from bartenders. I'm not privy to those sorts of things, and far be it from me to monger rumors, but neither point seems to be an issue.

Unless they signed a ten year lease that just expired. Hm. Shit. It

*will* be nice to have a continuous, contiguous roof over our heads while drinking.

Fortunately, there are other places to drown our sorrows, some even run by folks related to Blind Tiger. Married cousins or something.

Bars too? Funny. Let's start a thread about whether bars should have the right to choose whether patrons may smoke or not! 'S'fun!

Witzel

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Dave Witzel

Aaaaargghh! Bill, *please* turn off the tunes! I *hate* web pages that play noises - I don't care if it's music or butterfly farts, whatever. Or at least set it up so it comes up without the noise, and give users the option of turning it on or off. Please?

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dgs

Geez. That remodeling job in your apartment's kitchen must be really, like, intense and shit.

And yet, they didn't open a tavern in West Virginny. Go figure.

Or not! Hell, let's start a thread about whether bars should have the right to choose whether patrons may drink or not, while we're at it! Whee!

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dgs

They *do* have the right not to serve you, but you can shoot the bartender if you're underage and have a poor grasp of the Constitution and Libertarianism.

Witzel

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Dave Witzel

... and are a certified kook hailing from New Hampshire who believes in slapping women around to make them shut up?

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dgs

Dave Witzel wrote in news:Xns971DE1D857C30djwitzelnycroadrunne@24.168.128.90:

I'm not sure that's true. My understanding is that a business that is open to the general public cannot discriminate against whatever/whomever they feel like. Your door is open to the Common Man or it's not.

Behaviour (current or previous) - that's another issue entirely. But access...No. What you say implies that as a business owner I can kick you out based on your hairstyle or clothes.

Further, it is my understanding that businesses cannot restrict access not only to their premises but also to their restrooms. Leastways not 'round here. "Restrooms for customers only." But there aren't any public restrooms in many (if not most) places.

"We reserve the right to refuse service." A 'right'? I don't think there is such a right. Point that one out to me, please. I know it's not in the Constitution. Is it a local law? Or what? I note that those signs *never* list something like "LBCC 1342io312434i2y234iy-8373387."

"Restrooms for customers only." First of all, that's just mean. And...what are we supposed to do? Gotta pee. Where else do I do that? In your alley? Yeah, I understand they have to maintain those restrooms, but hammer your local city council, not someone who is spending money in your area.

I can pee anywhere. I've pissed into a Gatorade bottle on the 405 going 70mph. I can pee in the street in heavy traffic with the driver's door half open while I pretend to futz with the radio. Women can't do that. They can't go 'round the back.

I don't believe that business's [sic] have the right to do whatever they want. Whether it's Enron, GM, or your corner pub.

Believe it or don't: I'm willing to be wrong.

JWeaselicker? Louis?

As far as smoking goes, it's about time they suffered the burden that comes from an offensive practice. 50 years too late if you ask me.

Scott Kaczorowski Long Beach, CA

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Scott Kaczorowski

Bartenders and waiters can refuse to serve drinks to someone whom they think is incapacitated. There were instances, in NYC IIRC, where bars were sued after a drunk patron left and had an accident and the bar was said to be responsible. Go figger.

Pjk

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Pjk

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