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Twas a Few Days Before Christmas Twas a few days before Christmas, and all through the brewery All anyone is talking about is Mother Nature’s tomfoolery. Where is the snow, the chill, the deep freeze? Will we ever get to bust out our skis?   Michael and Enzara Guiliano take a...

Oh, The Weather Outside is Delightful The mercury crossing 60, it is--as Nathan Lyons of Brooklyn puts it--“t-shirt in December” weather. And so Nathan, and many others, are making the most of the meteorological gift from the gods and enjoying outdoor activity—in this case, craft beer...

The Captain’s Log: It’s Not Good to Keep Things Bottled Up It’s the time of year for sharing, and Captain Lawrence tasting room denizens will be doing just that on Dec. 13, when the brewery hosts its first-ever indoor bottle share, coinciding with the release of...

The Great Indoors It’s a gorgeous late-fall day, just warm enough to consume a draft or two on the patio, yet everyone has opted to stay indoors. In fact, it’s the first day the Captain Lawrence indoor beer garden—oxymoron intended—is open, with the brewery space...

Cuvee De Rte. 9A No one is exactly sure when Captain Lawrence last released its Cuvee de Castleton, a Belgian-style sour ale named for the Pleasantville street where the brewery was hatched, and likely the Captain’s most sought after brew ever. What is known is that...

Falling Back Into a Beer The days may be shorter, but some of them are still pretty darn glorious. There’s nary a cloud in the sky and, while there’s an undeniable feeling of fall in the air, the sun is shining bright on the Captain Lawrence...

A Hearty Hello to Hallow’s Eve With all due respect to Christmas, Easter and that blessed bacchanalia of turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie exactly a month away, Halloween may just be the holiday that is enjoyed as much by adults as it is by kids. We...

Flurry of Activity at the Brewery Ahh, the colors of October—brilliant reds and sparkling golds, and even a little white sprinkled in. Huh? Indeed, that was a snow flurry or three illogically tumbling from a blue-gray sky Sunday afternoon. Yet the unseasonably cold weather did not stop...

Sour to the People! There are fans of Captain Lawrence, who swing by on a mellow weekend afternoon for a sample of the Palate Shifter imperial IPA, the Captain’s Kolsch, the flagship Freshchester Pale Ale. Then there are the superfans, who queue up early for the...

The Captain’s Log: CL Expansion Reaches Its ‘Peek’ We’ve written often of Captain Lawrence expanding its footprint in Elmsford, taking on extra space from an adjacent building to create its sour ale aging Fermento Funk Facility. (Patent not quite pending, but it should be!) The...