3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (296+ words) These pricing dynamics are visible every day. Once you accept that pricing isn't just about ingredient lists or margins " that it also involves psychology, positioning, labor costs, and experience " the $8 pint starts to feel strategic rather than arbitrary. It's not…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1287+ words) I never intended this newsletter to be political. That was a luxury. Beer, for me, has always felt like a refuge " a third place in an increasingly fractured world. A barstool. A familiar taproom. A patio in July. A cold…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1614+ words) Ten years in, the New York State Craft Beer Competition has grown into something of a controlled chaos: more than a thousand beers, dozens of judges, flights of glasses marching across tables, and the occasional moment when everyone stops, looks…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (439+ words) Newark's beloved nanobrewery has always been about more than beer. Now it's proving it with a storage closet converted into a kitchen and a chicken sandwich worth driving for. "You can't just be a brewery and only make beer nowadays,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (493+ words) The legal end of K2 Brothers Brewing is now in motion. The order lays out the formal next steps in the foreclosure case and authorizes the process that will lead to the properties being sold. The filing refers to the "mortgaged…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (822+ words) It's never easy to write one of these stories. And writing this particular one for a second time, about the same brewery, feels especially deflating. Copper Leaf Brewing is closed. Again. Both locations. The Pittsford nanobrewery's Facebook page " one of…...

4+ week, 50+ min ago  (370+ words) Let me be direct with you: when the press release landed Thursday morning, I sat with it for a full minute before I wrote a single word. (And then I opened a new release from the brewery.) That's the news....

4+ week, 7+ hour ago  (290+ words) As winter starts to feel less like a punishment and more like a dare, Auburn's Prison City Brewing is once again leaning all the way in. This weekend marks the return of Brave Brews " a celebration of women and non-binary…...

1+ mon, 7+ hour ago  (935+ words) In practical terms, the brewery is not reopening. Now the legal record makes that reality unmistakable " and more complicated. The 388-page report recommends that the properties be sold separately, with the massive Walworth production facility offered first, followed by the…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (644+ words) And this was two months before Operation Metro Surge. Two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by federal agents. Protests surged block after block. Local governments went to court to try to stop it. Civil liberties groups sounded the alarm as…...