The Captain’s Log Summer is the season for road trips, and Captain Lawrence is indeed hitting the highway. Owner Scott Vaccaro is trekking to Burlington for the Vermont Brewers Fest July 20-21, giving the good people from the land of Ben & Jerry’s, maple syrup and...
Summer Strummers As we noted in this space last week, beer and music go together as well as, say, Simon and Garfunkel…at least in those years when Paul and Artie were getting along…and these steamy summer days only seem to firm up that bond. This Saturday...
Captain Lawrence’s Rhythm & Brews Man It is hot. Like, 95 and rising, and that stickiness that New York seems to do so well. But by the looks of him, there’s no place Evan Watson would rather be than rocking out on the Captain Lawrence patio--growling...
Dial K For Kolsch? Tasting Room Reading Goes Off Without a ‘Hitch’ Besides the usual olfactory notes of hops and barley, the Captain Lawrence tasting room had a literary whiff to it recently, as Steven DeRosa—author, screenwriter, film buff and tasting room regular--read from his book...
The Captain’s Log The Captain Lawrence pilot brewing system is--pun very definitely intended--hopping. The first creation from the experimental brewhouse, which owner Scott Vaccaro calls “a hoppy wheat IPA dry-hopped with Palisades hops” from the Pacific Northwest, is available in the tasting room. Formerly known by...
Fathers, Sons, and an Invincible Partnership St. Vincent is the patron saint of charities, helping the poor and the suffering worldwide. St. Vincent is also the guy who refrained from strangling his son when the kid told him he wanted to be a brewer, not an accountant,...
Another Beer, Please, For the Subway Series As we’ve noted in this space before, beer and baseball make for an unbeatable partnership. So, with the Yankees-Mets Subway Series on us in a matter of days, we looked to stoke a little debate by gathering a prominent...
I’ll Take ‘Notorious Pirates/Beer-Loving Fishermen/Fearless War Heroes’ For a Thousand, Alex Whether they’ve learned it from their tour of the brewery or gleaned it from the website, most people in the tasting room seem to know that Captain Lawrence Brewing was named for Captain Lawrence Drive--the...
The Captain's Log Whiling away a summer day with a Captain’s Reserve Imperial IPA in one hand, and a bocce ball in the other, poised to give it (the ball, not the beer) a hearty toss down the lane… Not a bad way to spend an afternoon,...
Hale Males Ride Rail Trail For Pale Ale I’m waiting for three men. They set out from the World Trade Center around 10:45 Friday morning, on bikes, with a stop at the Bronx Ale House and another at the beer wonderland DeCicco’s in Ardsley, before arriving at...