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Trivia, Beer Sampling and Other Noble Pursuits It is, in modern technology parlance, Trivia 2.0—a flashy upgrade on Captain Lawrence Brewing Trivia Night, featuring a little Name That Tune, a speed round, and winners of the various 5-question rounds receiving tickets redeemable for a gift card,...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Dawn of December Please Note: Since the Expansion of our Beer Garden and Kitchen. Pets are no longer allowed on premises. Some information in this archived post may be out of date It was a day that featured...

The Great Growler Grab and Go Today is, of course, Cyber Monday, on the heels of Small Business Saturday, the infamous Black Friday, and a less heralded day known around these parts as Growler Wednesday. See, the day before Thanksgiving each year is the day when...

The Captain’s Log Captain Lawrence Brewing welcomed two new members to the brew crew last week, as a mammoth pair of fermentation tanks made their way from Oregon to Elmsford, then proudly took their place in the brewery’s skyline of gleaming brew vessels. If a picture...

Hope and ‘Change’ Prevail On Election Day The polls were open, and the voters took their civic responsibility seriously--thinking long and hard about who deserved their hard-won vote. It was Captain Lawrence’s first-ever Pilot Batch Election, with a dozen small-batch creations from the brewery’s experimental brewhouse...

Shelter From the Storm At a time when people’s homes lacked light, when the temperature was creeping toward uncomfortably cold, and food and drink were held hostage inside fridges losing their cool faster than folks in a post-Sandy gas station line, there were worse places—far worse...

The Balm Before the Storm With an apocalyptic storm on its way, the music pumping out of the Captain Lawrence tasting room stereo could not have been more fitting: “I got some groceries, some peanut butter, to last a couple of days,” went Talking Heads’ “Life During...

The Captain’s Log It was a pretty idyllic setting that got even better. Scott Vaccaro, owner of Captain Lawrence Brewing, was at the Biergarten at the Standard Hotel in Manhattan, for a CL-sponsored event called Oyster Bash, the sun shining and a view of the High Line...

Smurfs, Zombie Films and Other Trivial Matters Just as Martha Raddatz was grilling the vice presidential dudes in Kentucky, a moderator was firing picayune questions at some other hopefuls with their eyes on a different prize at the Captain Lawrence tasting room in Elmsford. Indeed, it...

The Outsiders It is Friday, the temperature hovers around 80, and everyone on the Captain Lawrence patio is simultaneously celebrating the end of the work week, and one of those rare, glorious days when the weather defies the calendar. Looking around the jammed tasting room yard--people...