Gun Hill Brewing Co.
3227 Laconia Ave., The Bronx, 718-881-0010
Rita Ferrell fills a growler at Gun Hill Brewing Co. in The Bronx, one of several local breweries that have recently opened.
Gun Hill is the first to establish a physical microbrewery in the northernmost borough. Since opening in March, the space has quickly become a neighborhood fixture for mechanics and laborers on their breaks; on weekends it's packed with beer geeks seeking a local pint.
The Players: Co-owners Dave Lopez and Kieran Farrell met while playing on the same semipro baseball team in The Bronx. They recruited Chris Sheehan, formerly of Chelsea Brewing Co. and J.J. Bitting brewpub in Woodbridge Township, NJ, as their head brewer.
What To Try: Gun Hill's flagship beer is a refreshing, easy-drinking 4 percent ale called Gun Hill Gold that's perfect for outdoor barbecues or spring picnics. Sheehan's forte, though, is stouts. The jet-black Thunder Dog is roasty and robust and takes its name from Lopez and Farrell's Bronx-based baseball team, the New York City Thunder Dogs, whose home field is in The Bronx.
What's In A Name?: The brewery is located one block south of Gun Hill Road, itself named after a geographic feature in nearby Woodlawn Cemetery. It's said that during the Revolutionary War, a group of patriots hauled a cannon up the hill and fired on the redcoats from the elevated vantage point.
Status: The brewery's vast tasting room is open daily, with pints or tasting flights for $5. (Unsurprisingly, the TV is almost always tuned to a baseball game.) Some beers from the brewery are also available on draft throughout the city, including at Indian Road Cafe in Inwood and at Malt & Mold on the Lower East Side.
Finback Brewery
78-01 77th Ave., Glendale, Queens 718-628-8600
Kevin Stafford (left) and Basil Lee launched Finback Brewery by raising $30,000 through Kickstarter.
Finback is a new 20-barrel brewery that recently launched in Glendale, Queens. Its beers are punctuated with unusual ingredients, like Szechuan peppercorns. The crowd-funded brewery raised more than $30,000 through Kickstarter.
The Players: Longtime home-brew pals Basil Lee and Kevin Stafford founded Finback in 2011. It wasn't until last year, though, that they quit their day jobs — Lee was an architect, Stafford a graphic designer — and moved into their current brewing space.
What To Try: Finback's first three beers included their properly bitter flagship Finback IPA, an American-style smoked porter called Puffin and a floral 4.5 percent witbier called Double Sess(ion) made with ginger, Szechuan peppercorns, and chamomile. Their latest release, BQE, is an 11.5 percent imperial stout made with locally roasted beans from Native Coffee in Queens and chocolate from Mast Brothers in Brooklyn.
Status: Finback currently enjoys wide distribution throughout NYC and is on draft at bars like Jimmy's No. 43 and the Pony Bar. An on-site tasting room for samples, pints and growler fills will open at the brewery around May 21.
Dirck the Norseman/Greenpoint Beer & Ale Co.
7 N. 15th St., Brooklyn, 718-389-2940
A lively crowd chows down on hearty fare at Dirck the Norseman, Brooklyn's first brewpub.
Brooklyn's very first brewpub is located on Franklin Avenue at the nexus of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Tasty house-brewed beer is served alongside hearty German- and Belgian-inspired fare, like rich braised short ribs and crisp chicken schnitzel.
The Players: Ed Raven, owner of Greenpoint's Brouwerij Lane bottle shop, launched into the restaurant and brewing business with Dirck and its in-house brewery, Greenpoint Beer & Ale Co. (The brewery and restaurant are officially separate entities.) Raven tapped former Outer Banks Brewing Station brewer Chris Prout as head brewer and Brouwerij Lane manager Erik Olsen as an assistant brewer.
What To Try: Prout and Olsen's brews run the gamut of styles, from a German-inspired golden lager, Helles Gate, to a thoroughly American 9 percent imperial IPA called Tupelo, with notes of tropical fruit, pine and resin. A 2.9 percent English-style ale simply called Mild is easy drinking for a warm day, as is Clifford Pl., a well balanced 6 percent dry-hopped pale ale.
Status: Greenpoint Beer & Ale Co. pints and growlers are available daily at Dirck, with limited citywide distribution of the beer planned for later this spring or summer.
Other Half Brewing Co.
195 Centre St., Carroll Gardens, no phone
Co-founder Sam Richardson brings his knowledge of Seattle-area brewing to Brooklyn.
It may come as a shock to discover that Other Half is Brooklyn's first new brewery in almost nine years! But it was worth the wait, as its producing some of the city's best brews, from their hoppy West Coast-inspired IPAs and imperial stouts to a series of earthy sour ales and barrel-fermented saisons.
The Players: Brewers Matt Monahan and Sam Richardson met while working at Kelso in Cobble Hill. Richardson, a Portland, Ore., native, worked at Pyramid Brewing near Seattle prior to moving to Brooklyn, while Monahan trained as a chef.
What To Try: These guys have a taste for hops, so don't miss their flagship Other Half IPA, a grapefruity and bitter West Coast version of the style, or Green Diamonds, an imperial IPA made with Galaxy hops from Australia. They're also enthusiastic experimentalists. One of their newest creations is a 7.8 percent Belgian farmhouse ale called Veldrijden Love (or "V-Love" for short), some of which gets aged in used chardonnay barrels. They're also sourcing rum, rye and whiskey barrels from Van Brunt Stillhouse in Red Hook to use with their resinous Imperial Stout.
Status: Look for Other Half at specialty craft-beer bars throughout the city, like Proletariat in the East Village and Glorietta Baldy in Bed-Stuy. The brewery's tasting room, which will soon offer growler fills and samples, is slated to open as soon as its certificate of occupancy is approved, optimistically, says Richardson, within a few weeks.
Transmitter Brewing
53-02 11th St., Long Island City, no phone
Brewers and co-owners Rob Kolb (left) and Anthony Accardi (right).
Tucked practically beneath the Pulaski Bridge overpass along a mondo-industrial tract of Long Island City, Transmitter is a brand-new two-barrel nanobrewery specializing in funky farmhouse-style ales and barrel-conditioned beers.
The Players: Brewers and co-owners Anthony Accardi (far right) and Rob Kolb (right) met about a decade ago on an amateur bicycle-racing team, and have been home-brewing together in Brooklyn for the last two years.
What To Try: Ninety percent of Transmitter's brews are fermented with Bretannomyces, a yeast strain that can yield complex barnyard-y flavors as well as subtle wine-like characteristics. They're one of the few NYC breweries that bottle beer.
Status: Transmitter brewed their first commercial batch last week and will now begin distributing throughout the city. Expect an official roll-out later this month during Queens Beer Week (April 18 to 27). An on-premise bottle shop will follow, with growler fills and CSA-like "subscription" shares that include either two or four 750ml bottles per month, as well as special members-only beers.
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