Proletariat, beer bar behind Jane’s Sweet Buns @proletariatny (Taken with Instagram at Proletariat)
Hard to find beers, beer cocktails on tap, playing Snoop Dogg, and a bathroom wallpapered with old pictures of Russian prison tattoos. Add to that how it can be found behind a bakery serving pastries inspired by cocktails, and you have everyone ever’s dream spot. Check their beer menu here or scan the QR code with your phone when you get there. It’s only been open a couple weeks, so the bathroom is in good shape. It’s down at the end of the very narrow bar. Those people you have to shove past dont mind being rubbed up against one bit. Its that kind of place.
Some things never change. I mean, um, stand up for what you believe in.
Check out this picture of a rally in Union Square in 1912 next to a pic from yesterday’s May Day, courtesy of The Atlantic.
Shelton Brothers lawsuit to cost New York breweries millions
Bummer
brewyork:
A ruling last month in a lawsuit that an out-of-state beer importer brought against the New York State Liquor Authority has ended a major tax and fee exemption for small brewers in the state, which will cost them millions of dollars in previously-waived costs.
The lawsuit was filed by Massachusetts-based Shelton Brothers in the wake of the SLA’s rejection of a handful of Ridgeway beer labels in 2006 on the grounds that they would appeal to underage drinkers. The importer claimed First Amendment rights were violated by the Authority’s censorship of the labels, but then went one step further to also challenge the Constitutionality of the Authority’s label registration fees and excise taxes, which were levied for all out-of-state brewers and waived for small in-state brewers.
To resolve the lawsuit, the State Liquor Authority issued new rules [PDF] two weeks ago that lifted the 12-year old excise tax exemption, which applied to the first 200,000 barrels of beer brewed by in-state brewers. Since all but two in-state brewers brew less than that amount, nearly every drop of beer brewed by a New York craft brewery was previously not taxed by the state. It now will be, effective immediately, and retroactive to March 28th. In addition, the authority has re-imposed the $150 label registration fee that was previously waived on in-state batches of beer smaller than 1,500 barrels. Many of New York’s smallest brewers will be subject to this fee for the first time.
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Ha. The small print on the bottle says ‘Triple Gentrified’
brokelyn:
Spotted in Williamsburg near Berry and N. 7th.
….Mass hysteria is a terrible force, yet New Yorkers seems always to escape it by some tiny margin: they sit in stalled subways without claustrophobia, they extricate themselves from panic situations by some lucky wisecrack, they meet confusion and congestion with patience and grit—a sort of perpetual muddling through. Every facility is inadequate—the hospitals and schools and playgrounds are overcrowded, the express highways are feverish, the unimproved highways and bridges are bottlenecks; there is not enough air and not enough light, and there is usually either too much heat or too little. But the city makes up for its hazards and deficiencies by supplying its citizens with massive doses of a supplementary vitamin—the sense of belonging to something unique, cosmopolitan, mighty and unparalleled.
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E.B. White, Here is New York (1949)
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Oysters, cocktails, and old school toilets. (Taken with Instagram at Maison Premiere)
