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...
Falling For Seasonal Flavors Some signs of fall are obvious: the leaves bursting with color along the Taconic, friends who stop by with extra apples after a fruitful excursion to the orchard, Rex Ryan’s teary press conferences after a horrific Jets loss. Other autumnal tells are more...
Brown Ale Slays ‘Dragon’ Some artists create from palettes, as those tablets used for mixing paints are known, while others work off pallets, as those forklift-friendly wooden skids used for carting around kegs, bags of barley, and other heavy loads are called. Around 60 pallets were...
The Captain's Log Scott Vaccaro, owner of Captain Lawrence Brewing, has been logging major frequent-flier miles to improve the brewery’s beer, and make sure it gets into a wider group of hands. This past Sunday, he flew out to Washington State to spend quality time with...
Twister on Tap There was, of course, a tornado warning in Westchester over the weekend, and a pair of twisters actually tore through parts of Queens and Brooklyn. (Did someone say Brooklyn Cyclones?) But if that dire forecast put a fright into some people in the...