The Best of Freshchester Westchester’s finest, be it the county’s businesses, and individuals, and beers, assembled along the New Rochelle waterfront for the annual Best Of Westchester bash, and the Captain was well represented throughout Glen Island Harbour Club. On an evening still trapped within...
Keeping Cool(ish) Under the Dome As the TV weather men and women have informed us, we’re stuck in a heat dome, which is like a heat wave that decides to drop anchor and stick around for a bit longer. Yet the Captain Lawrence patio is mostly...
Go Fourth and Prosper! It was a long weekend, a holiday weekend, and for many, a perfect opportunity to throw back a few craft beers with friends, and reflect on independence and the other things that make America great. It was Alex Anderson of Tarrytown’s 30th...
Day of the Dad On that rare day when it’s up to Dad to choose where the family spends a lazy Sunday, brewery visits seem to spike substantially. It’s Matt Detone of Tuckahoe’s first Father’s Day as a dad—daughter Penelope Love is but three months old—and...
Staycation? How About IPA-cation? As the jams along the highways attest, plenty of folks took the long weekend to get away to the beach. But many others sought out R&R closer to home, favoring pastimes such as sipping craft beers at the local brewery. No traffic,...
From Brewster to the Brewery For a Brew The weather is just good enough to get out and enjoy the day, so the folks on a Gotham Bicycle Tour excursion are doing just that. They hopped the train from Grand Central Terminal to Brewster, met their...
Get Him to the Greek There are perhaps a dozen reasons to visit Captain Lawrence on this spring-but-not-quite-spring Sunday, including the Clearwater Kolsch, the Effortless IPA and the Hop Commander. But for Larry Zittman of Yonkers, it’s the big blue souvlaki truck, appropriately painted with “Souvlaki...
Doing Their Brew Diligence As the birthday girl, Christine Ranford of New Rochelle had her pick of celebratory venue. She selected Captain Lawrence to gather a couple dozen of her closest pals, and is marking the memorable day—after all, it’s her 40th--with a cold cup of...
A Tour and a Pour Despite the outdoor-imbibing weekend weather of late, chilly, wintry-mix Sunday was a day for indoor pastimes, and one could do worse than to take in a tour of Captain Lawrence. Everyone on the 2 p.m. tour, ably led by Rob...
Bird Watching, Bird Sipping, and Other Fowl Play For many at Captain Lawrence, the brewery is a home away from home, the place to go when whiling away a lazy weekend day. Yet others are seeing it for the first time, such as Katie Grimes of...