Just across the water from New Jersey are two spots recently know for their amazing craft beer selection. Philly and NYC and later this month, Get Real NY is happening! Get Real NY is a wonderful idea for those actually into craft beer and more important homebrews and cask conditioned real ale. Get Real NY is the brainchild from a few beer and wine people from around New York. Patrick Donagher from Rattle-n-Hum and Andy Freedman from Wined & Dined work really hard to put this amazing event on it’s not like your typical meathead, fistpump, get shitfaced drunk beer fest. It’s an education in beer but paired with great local food and even better people.
Get Real NY is focused on cask conditioned beers is the term for unfiltered and unpasteurised beer which is conditioned (including secondary fermentation) and served from a cask without additional nitrogen or carbon dioxide pressure. Cask ale may also be referred to as real ale, a term coined by the Campaign for Real Ale, often now extended to cover bottle-conditioned beer as well. More info can be found here about casks.
Get Real NY has a bunch of local food vendors like Mexicue, Rick’s Picks, Frites ‘n’ Meats and Luke’s Lobster just to name a few and there are a few sessions to pick from to make the event even better. There are 2 Saturday and 2 Sunday sessions and a VIP session for each day as well. I’ll be attending the Saturday sessions and really looking forward to a few of the beers below. Oh yeah, make sure you check out some of my friends homebrews. You won’t be disappointed. Oh yeah, I also forgot, crazy amount of beer celebs will be on hand like Dr. Bill, Bill Covalski, Shane from Sixpoint, Scott Vaccaro, i can go on.
Get Real NY Craft Beer & Food Festival is March 19-20, 2011 and here’s the beers I want to sip.
Blue Point Toxic Sludge
Flying Dog Raging Bitch
Captain Lawrence Xtra Gold
Nebraska IPA
Smuttynose Chai Porter
Sierra Nevada Stout
and of course the beers from Bolero Snort, 10 Dudes, Simply Beer and Mr. Moxey too. Who’s going to be there with me???
Here’s the newest cask list I can find pasted below. All I have to say is WOW!
Arcadia (MI Hopmouth Double IPA
Ballast Point (CA) Sculpin IPA
Ballast Point (CA) Sea Monster Imperial Stout
Ballast Point (CA) Sextant Coffee Oatmeal Stout
Ballast Point (CA) Victory at Sea Coffee Vanilla Imperial Porter
Barrier (NY) Cycle Saison
Barrier (NY) Rembrandt Porter
Barrier (NY) Ruthless Rye IPA
Blue Point (NY) Old Howling Bastard
Blue Point (NY) Sour Cherry Imperial Stout
Blue Point (NY) 10th Anniversary IPA
Brooklyn (NY) Bitter
Brooklyn (NY) East India Pale Ale
Brooklyn (NY) Irish Stout
Burton Bridge (England) Festival Ale ESB
Cambridge (MA) Spring Training IPA
Cape Ann (MA) Fisherman’s IPA Dry-hopped with Nugget and Chinook
Captain Lawrence Freshchester Pale Ale
Captain Lawrence (NY) Brown Bird Brown Ale
Captain Lawrence (NY) Smoked Porter
Captain Lawrence (NY) Xtra Gold American Tripel
Clown Shoes (MA) Hoppy Feet Black IPA
Defiant (NY) Lil Thumper English Pale
Dieu Du Ciel (Canada) Corne du diable (Horn of the Devil) IPA
Dieu Du Ciel (Canada) Péché Mortel (Mortal Sin) Imperial Coffee Stout.
Dogfish Head (DE) 75 Minute IPA
Farnum Hill (NH) Dooryard 1101 Cider
Firestone Walker (CA) Pale 31
Firestone Walker (CA) Union Jack IPA
Firestone Walker (CA) 100% Oak Fermented Unfiltered Double Barrel Ale
Fuller’s (England) London Pride
Gearys (ME) Hampshire Special Ale
Great Divide (CO) Belgica Belgian-style IPA
Great Divide (CO) Great Divide Hercules Double IPA
Great Divide (CO) Great Divide Oak Yeti Imperial Stout
Green Flash (CA) Double Stout
Green Flash (CA) Le Freak Belgian Style IPA
Green Flash (CA) West Coast IPA
Greenport Harbor (NY) Disorient IPA Dry-hopped with Citra
Greenport Harbor (NY) Harbor Ale Dry-hopped with Amarillo
Greenport Harbor (NY) Disorient IPA Dry-Hopped with Santiam and Centennial
Greenport Harbor (NY) Triton Barleywine Dry-hopped with Fuggle
Greenport Harbor (NY) Belgian IPA Dry-hopped with Tettnanger
Harvey’s (England) Lewes Castle Brown Ale
Harviestoun (Scotland) Bitter & Twisted Blond Beer
Haverhill (MA) Ragnar Baltic Porter
Haverhill (MA) Scapegoat Dunkel Bock
Haverhill (MA) Three Graces Belgian Triple
Kelso (NY) IPA Double Dry-hopped with Simcoe
Kelso (NY) Quad Bock Aged in Jack Daniels Barrels
Lagunitas (CA) Imperial Stout
Lagunitas (CA) Maximus IPA
Lagunitas (CA) New Dogtown Pale
Lagunitas (CA) Censored (aka The Kronik)
Left Hand (CO) Black Jack Porter
Left Hand (CO) Good Juju
Left Hand (CO) Sawtooth ESB Dry-hopped with Casacde
Left Hand (CO) Stranger Pale Ale
Mayflower (MA) IPA with Dry-Hopped Amarillo
Mayflower (MA) IPA with Dry-Hopped Citra
Oskar Blues (CO) Dales Pale Ale
Otter Creek (VT) Double Dry-hopped Alpine Black IPA
Pretty Things (MA) Fluffy White Rabbits
RCH (England) Old Slug
Ridgeway (England) Querkus
Riverhorse (NJ) Hop Hazard Dry-Hopped with Citra
Riverhorse (NJ) Oak Aged Bourbon Tripel Horse
Shmaltz (CA) HeBrew Bittersweet Lennys RIPA Dry-hopped with Simcoe
Shmaltz (CA) HeBrew Vertical Jewbelation
Sierra Nevada (CA) Northern Hemisphere Harvest
Sierra Nevada (CA) Porter
Sierra Nevada (CA) Juniper Black Ale
Sixpoint (NY) Diesel
Sixpoint (NY) Righteous Rye
Smuttynose (NH) IPA
Southern Tier (NY) 2XIPA
Stone (CA) Cali-Belgique Dry-hopped Chinook
Stone (CA) Ruination Dry-hopped with Centennial
Stoudts (PA) Double IPA
Stoudts (PA) Scarlet Lady Ale ESB
Thornbridge (England) Jaipur
Thornbridge (England) Kipling South Pacific Pale Ale
Thornbridge (England) Merrie
Troegs (PA) Nugget Nectar Imperial Red Ale
Two Brothers (IL) The Bitter End Pale Ale
Two Brothers (IL) Resistance IPA
Victory (PA) Headwaters Pale Ale
Victory (PA) Storm King Stout
Victory (PA) Yakima Glory Ale
Victory (PA) HopDevil
Wandering Star (MA) Mild at Heart Dark
Wandering Star (MA) Raindrop v2.0
Weyerbacher (PA) Double Simcoe with Mango
Williams Brothers (Scotland) Alba
Williams Brothers (Scotland) Fraoch