Brooklyn Brewery

Brooklyn Brewery was started in 1987 by former Associated Press correspondent Steve Hindy and former Chemical Bank lending officer Tom Potter. Hindy learned to brew beer during a six-year stay in various Middle Eastern nations such as Saudi Arabia and Syria, where possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages were forbidden. Upon his return to his home to Brooklyn in 1984, he and Potter, his downstairs neighbor, quit their jobs and founded the brewery.

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Brooklyn Local 1

Behind the full golden color, you’ll find an alluring aroma, a dynamic complex of flavors, Belgian flair, a Brooklyn fortitude and a dusting of our special yeast. To create this beer, we use the old technique of 100% bottle re-fermentation, a practice now rare even in Europe. It gives this beer a palate of unusual depth.

Best With: Enjoy this beer locally or globally, as an aperitif or with your favorite dishes. It is particularly nice with spicy seafood and with fine cheeses.

ABV: 8%


Brooklyn Local 2

Avail all year round. Here in Brooklyn, we’vew combined European malt, hops, belgian dark surgar, and rare wildflower honey from a new york family farm to create Brooklyn Local 2.

Our special Belgian yeast adds hints of spice to the dark fruit, caramel and chocolate flavors. After 100% bottle refermentation, the beer reveals a marvelous complexity, enjoyable by itself or at the dinner table.


Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse

Available all year round. This unique and exciting beer is a collaboration between brewmasters Hans-Peter Dresler of the Schneider Brewery and Garrett Oliver of The Brooklyn Brewery. Together they bring you a new sensation, a pale weisse-bock fermented with the Schneider yeast, then robustly dry-hopped with a blend of Amarillo and Palisade hops. Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse is a delicious blend of Bavarian craftsmanship and American ingenuity.

ABV: 8.5%


Black Chocolate Stout

Available October thruough March.

This is the famous Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, our award-winning rendition of the Imperial Stout style, once made exclusively for Catherine the Great. We use three mashes to brew each batch of this beer, achieving a luscious
deep dark chocolate flavor through a blend of specially roasted malts. We brew it every year for the winter season. It is delicious when newly bottled, but also ages beautifully for years.

Served in a snifter glass, Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout is excellent with chocolate desserts, cheesecake, fruit tarts, and ice cream. It is also a very good accompaniment to strong cheeses.

ABV: 8.7%
IBUs: 40


Oktoberfest

Available from August through October. When Croen Prince Ludwig of Bavaria wanted to celebrate his wedding engagement in 1810, so he did what any good Bavarian would do… He threw a beer festival.

Both the festival and the special beer served there became known as Oktoberfest. Brewed from the finest German malt and hops, Brooklyn Oktoberfest is true to the original style, full-bodied and malty, with a bready aroma and light, brisk hop bitterness.

ABV: 5.5%

Try with steak; roasted meats


Brooklyn Lager

This beer has a rich, malty mouth-feel and the coffee flavors are balanced with a hoppy effervescence. It is similar to English-style lagers, but with less of a metallic aftertaste. This makes it less abrasive and more drinkable. This brew has class written all over it from packaging to the beer itself. It is simple yet sophisticated so if you are looking to drink a few leisurely beers reach for this lager from Brooklyn. ABV 5.2%


Brooklyn Brown Ale

Brooklyn Brown Ale combines the best of those classic styles and then adds an American accent in the form of a firm hop character and roast palate. A blend of six malts, some of them roasted, give this beer its deep russet-brown color and complex malt flavor, fruity, smooth and rich, with a caramel, chocolate and coffee background. Brooklyn Brown Ale is full-flavored but retains a smoothness and easy drinkability that has made it one of the most popular dark beers in the Northeast. ABV 5.6%


Brooklyn EIPA

Brooklyn East India Pale Ale is a deep golden beer brewed from British malt and a blend of hops featuring the choice East Kent Golding variety. It is traditionally dry-hopped for a bright aroma of hops, lemongrass, pine, and citrus fruit, and has a robust bitterness, a warming malt palate, and a clean hoppy finish. ABV 6.8%. 6% on draft


Brooklyn Pennant Ale '55

Brooklyn Pennant Ale is a honey-colored pale ale with a brisk malt palage and finely balanced hop character. Pennant is a traditional English-style pale ale. The pale ale style developed in the early 19th century, and was called “pale” because it appeared so in comparison to the darker ale styles of the day. Brooklyn Pennant Ale is brewed from Scottish Maris Otter malt, which is justly prized for its toasty, biscuity flavor and the round smoothness it imparts to beer.

Best With: Brooklyn Pennant Ale is great with pizza, roasted and grilled meats, burgers, barbecue, robust fish, shellfish, falafel, crab cakes, and spicy food. Caramel malts lend it the ability to work nicely with steaks, but just as well with grilled vegetables.

ABV: 5.0%


Brooklyn Summer Ale

Brooklyn Summer Ale is a mondern rendition of the “Light Dinner Ales” brerwed in England in the 40’s. They were also called “luncheon ales” or even “family ales,” because they were refreshing and flavorful without being too heavy. We brew Brooklyn Summer Ale from premium English barley malt, which gives the kight-bodied, golden beer a fresh, bready flavor. German and American hops lenda light, crisp bitterness and a citru/floral aroma, resulting in a beerr with a very sunny disposition.

Pairs Well With: Excellent with salads, seafood, quiches and lightly spiced dishes. It’s also great at lunch!

ABV: 4.5%


Brooklyner Weisse

Refreshing, light, and brisk, wheat beers have been popular in Bavaria for centuries. Weissbier or hefeweizen (wheat beer with yeast) was once brewed exclusively by the Bavarian royal family. In the 1800s they were popular among German immigrants to the United States. Our Brooklyner Weisse is brewed in the classic German style from German wheat and barley malts. Our special Bavarian yeast produces the flavors and aromas that wheat beers are prized for: bananas, cloves, and melon, with a smoky note in the background. This beer is traditionally left unfiltered, so there’s a dusting of yeast still in the beer, adding the hazy appearance and greater depth to the flavors. Serve it in a tall glass, admire the big fluffy head, and enjoy sunshine in a glass.

ABV: 5.1%


Post Road Pumpkin Ale

Available from August through November. Early American Colonialists, seeking natural ingredients for brewing ales, turned to pumpkins, which were plentiful, flavorful and nutritious.

Blended with barley malt, pumpkins became a commonly used beer ingredient. Post Road Pumpkin Ale brings back this tasty tradition. Hundreds of pounds of pumpkins are blended into the mash of each batch, creating a beer with an orange amber color, warm pumpkin aroma, biscuity malty center, and crisp finish.

ABV: 5%