Part 2: The Community and the Beer
In case you missed it, Part 1:The Philosophy and the Beer. Sixpoint’s brewery sits on a ghostly corner in Red Hook, a “place to stay out of,” according to Thomas Wolfe’s aptly titled existentialist story “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn.” Red Hook’s mythology is anchored by gangsters like Joe Gallo, fallen American heroes like Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, and Arthur Miller’s classic play A View...
Sixpoint Craft Ales: Cultivating a Cultural Renaissance
This piece was first published last March. Stay tuned for "PART 2: The Community & the Beer" to be published on Saturday. Part 1: The Philosophy and the Beer If you travel to Red Hook, Brooklyn, you’ll find yourself in a half-industrial, post-nautical neighborhood teetering on the edge of urban revival. You can smell the saltwater from the window of any repurposed loft. On the sidewa...
“Beer Is Culture” The Sixpoint Art and Design Exhibition
Beer Is Culture The Sixpoint Art and Design Exhibition Beer is Culture is inviting you to create an original design or illustration that successfully taps into this theme, "Beer Is Culture" and upload it to their wall. You may also submit your design by sending it in a private email to beerisculture@sixpoint.com. Tell your friends to "Like" your image, or simply click "Like" on your favorite am...
Autumnal Resolutions: JC Oktoberfest 2010
For showing up at the end of the calendar year, autumn is an ironically fertile season for new beginnings. Kids start school. Farmers celebrate a new harvest. The Jews celebrate a new year. I celebrate a new reason to hate people who complain about summer. This year, during one of those infamous Labor Day picnics where millions of Americans across the country, instead of mourning the loss of joy cast over mankind ...
An American Beer Garden
In a recent trip to Munich, I encountered a cultural phenomenon unknown to my apple pie Americanism: beer gardens. In Munich they have beer gardens. (I know this is not a revolutionary find. You're probably asking yourself which isolated desert state I live in.) But they have beer gardens in Munich. Outside. In parks. Where children play, and moms walk with a stroller in one hand and a beer stein in the other. They d...
