Some more terrific press for the Broadway Brews Project landed today from Circa news, featuring BOTH Rise Up Rye and the upcoming School of Rock beer:
Many thanks to Ariel Min and all the good folks at Circa!
http://circa.com/lifestyle/food/how-hamilton-inspired-beer-rise-up-rye-is-helping-a-charity-founded-by-hamiltons-wife
The Broadway Brews Project continues!
Just like we did with Hamilton an American Musical and Gun Hill Brewing recently, we, The Happy Hour Guys, are putting a hit Broadway show together with a local brewer, to brew a beer for Charity. Our eventual goal: The Broadway Six Pack - six shows, six beers, six amazing causes.
And here comes Brew #2; we're matching School of Rock the Musical with Carton Brewing in Atlantic Highlands, NJ - and they're brewing for the good folk over at Sing For Hope.
Brew Day is October 20th, and the release party will be...well, as soon as this kick-ass, hard-rockin' beer is ready.
Craft Beer and Broadway are together again. Cheers!
Earlier this year, while going thru some 'classic' footage, Mark said to Jimmy, "Hey - whatever happened to that really great stuff we got in the finger lakes when we visited Damiani Wine Cellars?" A spelunking adventure ensued, and Jimmy recovered this event, which we must share. As we've said in the past, it's always good to be a The Happy Hour Guy, but some days IT'S EVEN BETTER. Enjoy this episode, right out of the tank and barrel. CHEERS!
So very excited to let you guys in on this one - our second Broadway Brews Project collaboration partners will be School of Rock the Musical, and Carton Brewing! There are already tons of cool stories to tell about this one and we've barely gotten started. First episode capture is just weeks away!
Stay tuned for updates as we get the band together, create a recipe, pick a charity, and find a name for this beer - any ideas from you guys? Leave them in the comments below!
Mark, Jimmy and Squigs take the short journey from NYC to Northport NY, on Long Island; a beautiful little village with a historical part of the very bones of New York City. Also where, right in the middle of Main Street, Sand City Brewing is making craft beer that... well, it pretty much blew our minds. Click below for more about this great place and these TERRIFIC beers that will soon be much, much harder to get. This is a #WalkDontRun alert, people! GET THEE TO NORTHPORT!
Frank McNally, Kevin Sihler, and Bill Kiernan, Co-Owners of Sand City.
This was just the start of DELICIOUS.
When we started the Broadway Brews Project, we certainly had hopes that it would blossom into the Next Big Thing. But I'm not sure we had any idea that it would go like this. Check out the latest press that just dropped yesterday: A great video from Brittany Spanos and the good folks over at:
Click the icon to go to their story.
And here's a lineup of some (just some!) of the coolest press we've had so far:
ROLLING STONE: Inside Hamilton Musical's Craft Beer, Rise Up Rye
WALL STREET JOURNAL: "A Revolutionary Drink: Smash Broadway Musical inspires a 'Hamilton' Beer"
PLAYBILL: "Raise a Glass to Freedom: There's Now a Hamilton Beer"
WABC 7: Brewery Making a Craft Beer Inspired by 'Hamilton': Portion of Sales Benefits Charity
EATER: Broadway's 'Hamilton' Inspires a New Craft Beer
ALL ABOUT BEER: Beer on Broadway: Hamilton Cast Plays at Brewing
EDIBLE BRONX: "Brews Over Broadway"
BEER SESSIONS RADIO: The Happy Hour Guys & Hamilton Craft Beer episode
It's already late up on the roof deck of Beer Authority in Midtown Manhattan, but who cares: Let's tear it up!
Time to celebrate - the first incarnation of The Broadway Brews Project has come full circle. What a journey! The plan was made, and the beer was brewed; now it's time to party. Join our Broadway Brewers and their bretheren in the cast of Hamilton an American Musical for the release of Rise Up Rye, brewed with Gun Hill Brewing in honor of Graham Windham and the Eliza Project. Biggest hit show of a generation, sure: But how will the beer taste? Click play and find out.
SPECIAL THANKS TO: The good folks at Beer Authority; Harry Berberian, from Graham Windham, and the GW volunteers; Hollis Scarborough-Rodriguez, for her party planning genius (as well as her hubby Percy); and our crackerjack shooting crew of Ben Leibert, Dane Agostinis, and Squigs.
