The Happy Hour Guys look back on 2019 (and Mad Princes)!

Our yearly tradition continues with an added bonus, a visit to Pennsylvania’s Mad Princes Brewing!

Once again, we celebrate where we’ve been in the vast landscape of American Craft. What we’ve seen, what we’ve sampled, and most importantly, the people we’ve met. What a year for us, with visits to states across the Union:

Other Half Brewing

Big aLICe Brewing

Walking Tree Brewery

Great Lakes Brewing

Neir’s Tavern

Barbarian Brewing

We also managed to accomplish the FIFTH beer in the Broadway Brews Project, a collaboration with Come From Away and Five Boroughs Brewing, to benefit the wonderful folks at Tuesday’s Children. Now streaming on the STAGE NETWORK!

2019 was a fantastic year, and 2020 looks incredibly exciting, with Mark winging his way across the USA on a National Tour, and Jimmy holding down the fort on the Eastern Seaboard. Can’t wait. Enjoy our lookback on a wonderful year.

You look GREAT for 190: Neir's Tavern.

THE WEEKEND IS HERE! (ALMOST)… And even if you think you know New York, the truth is, you never quite know…you know?

Hidden gems. History. No city offers up secrets and surprises ‘across the bar’ like NYC.

To that end, we present: NEIR’s:

Join us as we plumb the depths of this neighborhood institution that has stood the test of time like only a handful of bars have: Over 190 years worth.

We have a challenge for you: Who’s headed out this weekend? Prove to us that you stopped by Neir’s this weekend (pics or it didn’t happen, tagging us (@happyhourguys) and Neir’s (@NeirsTavern) and we’ll send you some swag!

And COME ON BY FOR THEIR 190th BIRTHDAY, coming up on October 5th, 2019! We’ll be there, and we hope to see as many of you as possible. Cheers!

Big aLICe Brewing: City, farm, barrel...brilliance.

Mark and Jimmy make a stop at the most urban of breweries that somehow is...well, quite rural. How? And who is BIG aLICe, anyway? Play on to find out. Cheers!

How the Other Half lives...(on Instagram)

We admit to being rather old school production types: We’d rather shoot first and do edits later. But sometimes, on a cold day in early 2019, when the beer is ludicrously flavorful and your instagram account is filling, why not try to put things together and make an episode? Enjoy our boozy afternoon at Other Half NYC. Cheers!

The Happy Hour Guys look back on 2018!

This is our ELEVENTH look-back episode.

Let’s just ponder that for a minute. Since we started producing regularly in 2008, eleven Happy Hour Guys seasons. ELEVEN ‘year end’ episodes!

Two guys back then with a non-HD camera, some borrowed sound gear and a single light that made them look like they were at the dim end of a long tunnel had no idea they would or could come all this way.

And there’s much further to go: Stay tuned for a big announcement early in the New Year!

• 2018 saw us make some new friends around the country, saw us re-visit some old ones, and take the Broadway Brews Project to the two-thirds point: Four done, and only two beers left to complete the Broadway Six Pack. Links:

  • Braxton Brewing

  • Rheingeist Brewing

  • Industrial Arts Brewing

  • Broadway Brews Project Phantom: Meet the Team!

  • Broadway Brews Project Phantom: Brew Day!

  • Photos from Phantom Release Party

  • Fifth Hammer Brewing

  • Genesee Brewing, 2018

• Also, we engaged you guys this year in a whole new way with our GoFundMe to help complete the Six Pack, and you responded: We raised over 15K to get us across the finish line.

• Going into 2019, there’s some VERY BIG NEWS that will take the Broadway Brews Project (and us!) to a whole new level!

As always, thank you. We are nothing without our audience, friends and fans. These great stories need to be told, and we do it so that all of you can follow in our footsteps. Now go someplace new, try something different, and most importantly, buy someone a drink. CHEERS!

Music! Pythagoras! Beer! 5th Hammer Brewing.

What do Pythagoras, Charlie Parker, the Fun Tank, and Long Island City, NY have in common? Fifth Hammer Brewing, that's what. The NYC brewery landscape continues to grow with the addition of this gem. Join Mark and Jimmy as they spend some time with Chris Cuzme and Mary Izett at this can't-miss new brewery in Queens!

Photos from the Phantom Broadway Brew Release Party!

Oh what a fun night we had at the release party for Pint of No Return, our very own Broadway Brews Project brew number FOUR! Loads of great folk from Phantom, Hardywood Brewing, and Musicians on Call raised multiple glasses throughout the evening for a great cause. Under a beautiful Manhattan sunset, we toasted the journey that this beer will take, from Virginia to Broadway and beyond! 

Every time we come to the end of a Brew journey, it's a real reckoning. These are not easy to pull off, but INCREDIBLY rewarding, every single time. Look for a video episode covering this amazing night very soon. And many thanks to the good folks at Beer Authority NYC, as well as our wonderful capture crew.

Still want to support the Broadway Brews Project? We're always looking for help.

And NYC'ers, find The Pint of No Return at a Trader Joe's in the NYC area, and give it a try. It's one of the coolest beers you'll taste this year. CHEERS!