The Breakfast Club Jordi Bayer and Sammy Saba, without a doubt, had a better breakfast than you. While the cold snap dissuaded many from venturing out on the weekend, the New York City pair took it in the opposite direction, schlepping to Dover Plains in Dutchess...
The Captain’s Log: Mo’ Better Brews Having been a good boy all year, Captain Lawrence got some rather large presents from Santa this past holiday season. There’s a new bottling line that it picked up from the Prospero folks in Pleasantville that more than doubles the...
New Year’s, New Beers They don’t have the cache of Christmas and New Year’s, but these days in between are, in a sense, holidays in their own right—time to seek out old friends, knock off the things you’ve been meaning to do all year, and start...
Twas a Few Days Before Christmas Twas a few days before Christmas, and all through the brewery There was all sorts of merriment, some flashes of foolery People took a break from finding the best Christmas sales To enjoy some fine, locally brewed craft ales. Hawthorne’s Elio Pezzulo sent out...
Your Presents Is Appreciated The sun poking through the clouds is a welcome gift from the heavens, and a clutch of bicycles leans against the beer patio fence for the first time in eons. Inside, a trio of cyclists unwinds after making the ride from...
Finding ‘Gold’ in the Gray, Or, Drinkin’ With Lincoln Rain. Miserable, cold, plans-crushing, muck-making rain, falling in silvery sheets all week. Not much to do on a day like this, except grab some friends and find a warm, dry place to hang. Such as Captain Lawrence. Ryan O’Keefe...
Robust Reviews For Coffee Brews It is the time of the year for getting together with old friends, as a gang of guys from Ardsley is doing at Captain Lawrence. They’ve known each other since kindergarten, and have opted to spend the frigid day warming themselves...
The Captain’s Log: A Thanksgiving Day Monster, and We Don’t Mean Turducken The leaves are all but down, the cold weather is very definitely upon us, and the tap lineup at Captain Lawrence has shifted to heartier brews. The Frost Monster is back! Hibernating all summer,...
Getting Out While the Getting’s Good A group of six men is gathered around a Samsung phone resting on a barrel on the Captain Lawrence patio. They’re watching the Jets. The screen goes blank. “Please deposit 25 cents for the next minute,” jokes one of them in...
Winter is Coming That wind. That brutal All Souls Day wind—the howling harbinger of winter—daring you to venture outside, more likely encouraging you to stay in and watch the miserable Jets. The Captain Lawrence patio was as lonely as a costume shop the day after Halloween, the bocce...