Bronx Brewery competes in Best Brews of New York
BY ALEX MITCHELL
The NCAA basketball tournament
isn’t the only March
Madness competition going on
this month.
Brookfi eld Place of Manhattan
hosted its own weekslong
tournament, this one of
beer.
The event, dubbed the Best
Brews of New York, showcased
15 breweries across the
the state including the fi ve
boroughs and naturally, The
Bronx Brewery made the cut.
Beer drinkers fortunate
enough to be in Brookfi eld
Place for the Thursday night
competitions that ran from
February 21 to March 14 had
the opportunity to sample and
cast a ballot on which brews
were best from the Empire
State.
Similar to the World Cup,
each week during the competition,
fi ve of the selected breweries
went head to head in a
A server pours a ‘Well Earned’ for a guest at the competition.
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moving on to the fi nals
slated for Thursday, March
14.
Another Bronx-based beer
brewer, Gun Hill Brewing,
was also in the competition
but was eliminated during the
fi rst round.
Divided up by region, the
Bronx Brewery’s fi rst group
of challengers came from
Brooklyn Brewery, Manhattan’s
Alphabet City Brewing
Company, Queens’ Rockaway
Brewing Company and Staten
Island’s Kills Boro Brewing
Company on Thursday, March
7.
Needless to say, the Bronx
Brewery swept past its competitors
to claim a slot in the
fi nals.
Despite an excellent showing,
The Bronx Brewery fell
short in the fi nal round to
Barrier Brewing Co. of Long
Island’s south shore.
Regardless, plenty of New
Yorkers got to experience
the crispy taste of The Bronx
Brewery’s ‘Well Earned’
Northeast IPA for the fi rst
time and what probably won’t
be their last time.
The Bronx Brewery’s stand at Brookfi eld Place during the fi nals.
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