Oh, how we Long (Island) for Sand City Brewing!

June 29, 2016

Mark, Jimmy and Squigs take the short journey from NYC to Northport NY, on Long Island; a beautiful little village with a historical part of the very bones of New York City. Also where, right in the middle of Main Street, Sand City Brewing is making craft beer that... well, it pretty much blew our minds. Click below for more about this great place and these TERRIFIC beers that will soon be much, much harder to get. This is a #WalkDontRun alert, people! GET THEE TO NORTHPORT!

Frank McNally, Kevin Sihler, and Bill Kiernan, Co-Owners of Sand City.

Headed back to the Berks, RIP Trader Moe's. (Let's go to the Tavern!)

June 22, 2016

Guess where we're headed this summer? Western Mass, anyone? Jimmy will be performing at the Berkshire Theatre Festival again, continuing his practice of Musical Theatre Dentistry this time in Little Shop of Horrors - and besides sweet notes and sadism, you know what that means: More visits to MOE's! But Josh Cohen, always an innovator, had another another offering rather close to Moe's Tavern that we need you to remember heading into the Dog Days...join us in looking back at - Trader Moe's. Cheers!

Update: Sadly, Trader Moe's has closed just a few months ago... but Moe's Tavern is still going strong. Join us at Moe's!

Press keeps Rolling (Stone) for the #BroadwayBrewsProject!

June 8, 2016

When we started the Broadway Brews Project, we certainly had hopes that it would blossom into the Next Big Thing. But I'm not sure we had any idea that it would go like this. Check out the latest press that just dropped yesterday: A great video from Brittany Spanos and the good folks over at:

And here's a lineup of some (just some!) of the coolest press we've had so far:

ROLLING STONE: Inside Hamilton Musical's Craft Beer, Rise Up Rye

WALL STREET JOURNAL: "A Revolutionary Drink: Smash Broadway Musical inspires a 'Hamilton' Beer"

PLAYBILL: "Raise a Glass to Freedom: There's Now a Hamilton Beer"

WABC 7: Brewery Making a Craft Beer Inspired by 'Hamilton': Portion of Sales Benefits Charity

EATER: Broadway's 'Hamilton' Inspires a New Craft Beer

ALL ABOUT BEER: Beer on Broadway: Hamilton Cast Plays at Brewing

EDIBLE BRONX: "Brews Over Broadway"

BEER SESSIONS RADIO: The Happy Hour Guys & Hamilton Craft Beer episode

Broadway Brews Hamilton: Release Party!

May 18, 2016

It's already late up on the roof deck of Beer Authority in Midtown Manhattan, but who cares: Let's tear it up!

Time to celebrate - the first incarnation of The Broadway Brews Project has come full circle. What a journey! The plan was made, and the beer was brewed; now it's time to party. Join our Broadway Brewers and their bretheren in the cast of Hamilton an American Musical for the release of Rise Up Rye, brewed with Gun Hill Brewing in honor of Graham Windham and the Eliza Project. Biggest hit show of a generation, sure: But how will the beer taste? Click play and find out.

SPECIAL THANKS TO: The good folks at Beer Authority; Harry Berberian, from Graham Windham, and the GW volunteers; Hollis Scarborough-Rodriguez, for her party planning genius (as well as her hubby Percy); and our crackerjack shooting crew of Ben Leibert, Dane Agostinis, and Squigs.

Broadway Brews Hamilton: BREW DAY!

April 27, 2016

It's a chilly day in the Bronx. And as our Hamilton Brew Crew gathers in Times Square outside the Richard Rodgers Theatre for their ride north, their compatriots up at Gun Hill Brewing company are 'mashing in' the beginnings of an experimental Rye beer that is set to change the relationship between Craft Beer, Broadway and charity...forever.

But this process cannot complete without the help of Javier Muñoz, David Guzman, and Kamille Upshaw. Click ahead for a peek behind the scenes - and the creation of Rise Up Rye. The release of this beer is Saturday night, 4/30!

(A percentage of sales of #RiseUpRye will go to @GrahamWindham, in support of the #ElizaProject. This is the #BroadwayBrewsProject!)

Broadway Brews Project #1: Meet the HamilTeam!

April 19, 2016

Brew Crew Assemble! Welcome to the Broadway Brews Project: The Happy Hour Guys are putting together Hamilton an American Musical and Gun Hill Brewing of the Bronx, to brew a special one-off #CraftBeer for charity!

It's after showtime at 5 Napkin Burger in Midtown Manhattan, and members of the cast of Hamilton, The Happy Hour Guys, and Gun Hill Brewing meet up for great food and drink to discuss the recipe of their beer, what they might name it, and most importantly, who they'll be raising money for. Let's meet our brain trust!

HUGE thanks to our friends at 5 Napkin Burger Midtown for hosting us for the evening, and to Justin 'Squigs' Robertson, Dane Agostinis, Jeffry Denman and Ben Leibert on the lenses!

Here comes the Broadway Brews Project

April 4, 2016

Being Broadway guys who moonlighted as The Happy Hour Guys (or vice versa) just didn't cut it any longer: So Mark and I decided it was time to bring our Craft lives and our Broadway lives together.

So here's an intro to our newest series, The Broadway Brews Project. We're pairing a hit Broadway show with a local NY Brewer; then helping the whole crowd plan, brew and then celebrate a one-off beer, all for a charity of the show's choosing. And we follow along with our cameras the whole time, of course. 3 Episodes: Meeting/recipe planning, Brew Day, and Release Party.

So what show is up first? There may be a clue or two (or three) in this teaser!