Shout out to Brooklyn!
by Melanee Meegan, Marketing and Advertising Manager

New York City was a hot and sticky place to spend my vacation last week. But I managed to survive what may be one of the warmest summers in Big Apple history by drinking iced coffee in the morning and cold beer at night.

Every corner bodega had ice coffee available, as did every specialty coffee shop on the block. I was never without a cool caffeinated beverage to keep me going on my long days out and about visiting museums and shops all over the city. But it wasn't the coffee that will keep me coming back to NYC -- it was the beer. 

It just so happens that my friends live near a liquor store that offers a free beer and cheese tasting every Tuesday night. At the beer tasting, I got my fair share of hefeweizen, the German style of wheat beer, of which interestingly enough I had never been much of a fan. It was there that I tried Brooklyn Brewery's Brooklyner Weisse. And boy, oh boy, was it good! In fact it is so good that is was recently rated by the New York Times as the top tasting hefeweizen on the market. They described its aroma as that of clove, banana and smoke. For me, the liveliness of this beer was heightened as I drank it in a crowded sports bar while watching the World Cup final between France and Italy. The place was packed with people drinking beers from all over the world. There I was content on my bar stool drinking the best local beer while watching the biggest international sporting event in the world.

I hope this small snapshot of a perfect moment on my trip to NYC will remind you of times when you’ve had the perfect cup of coffee or the best tasting pint of beer that was as much about the place as it was about the taste!

To learn more about hefeweizens check out this New York Times article.

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