From The Tasting Room

What to Take When Heading Into Labor It was summer’s last hurrah—a chance to head out of town, hit the beach, visit friends, and partake in other typical Labor Day activities. And any time there’s a holiday weekend in the offing, the growler line at Captain...

Lazy Saturday Lax Nothing It was, by several accounts, a lazy Saturday. Another steamy day in a summer full of them, vacation likely over, school starting in short order, the Yankees and Mets stuck in their own relative versions of malaise, and football still a few...

The Captain’s Log The back to school ads are starting to run, pre-season football is underway, and the TV networks are beginning to hype their new shows. Is it too early to start thinking about autumn, and all of its tasty trappings? It’s never too early. The Captain...

Sour Ale O’ Mine The anticipation in the tasting room was almost as great as it was for that Guns N’ Roses album that took like 32 years to be released. Hops N’ Roses, the malt sour ale brewed with a veritable bouquet of flowers--including hibiscus, rose...

An En-Lightning Evening, and a Very Good Cause And  A Note From Lisa Harding of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation The band was playing “Blister in the Sun”, which had everyone at the brewery up on their feet. But perhaps a song with a bit more...

Babes in the Brewery “Notes From the Tasting Room” has been a bit guy-heavy in recent weeks, with Evan Watson talking about beer, blues and football, Scott Vaccaro chatting about roasting pigs and jack-knifed pickup trucks, and a litany of lads opining on testosterone-fueled live music. So...

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...