The Captain’s Log: Top of the Hops Beer tastes especially good when it’s consumed out of a giant trophy cup that you were just given. Scott Vaccaro had that opportunity when Captain Lawrence was awarded the Matthew Vassar Brewer’s Cup for best Hudson Valley brewery at...
Full Moons and Mini-‘Moons If you ever want the Captain Lawrence tasting room almost completely to yourself, the time to go is Wednesday around 4 p.m. People will knock off work early on a Thursday or Friday, but not so much on Hump Day. The handful...
Brews Travelers’ Year of Beer For most everyone in the tasting room—and particularly on the patio on this don’t-forget-the-sunscreen kind of day—it is simply a perfect Sunday: A few locally brewed craft beer samples and lots of laughs with friends before the work week starts. For Brandon...
Talkin’ Baseball…and Beer It’s opening day for our national pastime, but it really doesn’t feel like it. The weekend was a wet washout, a few flakes even flew, and if you look around a bit, you can still find clumps of snow where the sun, as...
Shall We Meat For a St. Pat’s Beer? While St. Patrick’s Day has become, for better or worse, a celebration of beer, we sure do some funky things to our beloved brews in the name of the patron saint of Ireland. The purists may have scrunched...
Sun Shines On Happy ‘Hour’ A few days before we turned our clocks forward, USA Today posited how the whole of America will “bemoan the hour we won't get back until October.” Which got me thinking. For starters, we get the hour back in November, not...
Wishing Away the Winter Woes Rough winter, eh? Even if it doesn’t prove to be the statistically worst in Westchester history, it sure as hell feels that way. Nasty, unforgiving, relentless—pick your adjective. Or your simile: “It’s like a boxer with a good jab,” likens Rob...
The Best Fest In All of Westchester It was among the greatest days ever for New York-based craft beer fans. There were two full blown brew festivals Saturday—the cleverly titled Hops and Props bash under the Spirit of St. Louis and other vintage aircraft at the...
The Captain’s Log: Zero to 60 in 12 Months It’s been just a year since the first bottles of Captain Lawrence India Pale Ale came rolling down the line, and the beer is already the No. 2 seller, ahead of mainstays such as Captain’s Kolsch...
Crossing the Border to Order Some Porter It being a holiday weekend and all, Sunday was more like a Saturday in the Captain Lawrence tasting room. “Triple D” was in the house—it’s a “birthday weekend” for Dan Gannon of Stamford, and he’s sharing a few samples...