Hoppy Birthday to the Captain! Captain Lawrence marked its ninth birthday in style, with a half dozen bands, as many food vendors and several hundred fans of the brewery coming out to try beers old (Freshchester Pale Ale, Liquid Gold), new (Kirk Lazarus dark witte and...
An Effortless Day For Mom For some moms, the ideal Mother’s Day involves brunch with loved ones. Others opt for a picnic in the park. For still others, when it’s their choice, it’s craft beer samples at the local brewery. Megan Shamas of Fairfield, Connecticut is...
The Captain’s Log: Dressed to the ‘Nines’, Hanging at the Fermento Funk Factory Captain Lawrence throws a little birthday party for itself May 16, when Tap & Pour goes down at the brewery’s Elmsford base. In years past, the brewery would mark its anniversary with a...
Almost Famous Tom Brady stretches out his 6’ 4” frame, scans the field in front of him, and fends off the attacker waving his arms in Brady’s face. He considers his options, and chooses the Hop Commander. Alas, this Tom Brady lives in Armonk, and his...
Downward (Hair of the) Dog, Anyone? There are peculiar pairings, such as Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, or, say, beer and yoga. And there are others that seem to go together nicely, such as J.J. Rogener, a student at New York Medical College in Valhalla, and...
Opening Day For Open-Air Sipping Windy and cool as it may be, it is truly the first time all season when one could sit on the Captain Lawrence patio in neither a parka nor a wetsuit. And so people did. There was the satisfying crack of...
Sun Blocked Out, But Fun Goes On Yup, it’s snowing in the spring. Not a lot of it, but it’s there—late March snow. Yet the frozen precip has not prevented a gaggle of New Jersey guys from playing bocce outside the brewery. “We saw an open...
The Captain’s Log: A Tasty Triple Threat Every few months, Captain Lawrence releases a limited batch of specialty four-packs of very unique beers. This time around, it’s the Seeking Alpha triple IPA. That’s right, triple—we’ll see your imperial IPA and raise you another blast of hoppy...
Shamrockin’ In the Free World It is that lull on the calendar—St. Patrick’s Day not quite here, and Pi Day a recent memory. Pi Day, celebrating the extraordinarily rare occurrence of 3/14/15 on the calendar, was a surprisingly big day around the Captain Lawrence tasting room,...
The Brewery Man (Sung to the tune of “The Piano Man”, with our apologies to Billy Joel) It’s 4 o’clock on a Sunday The regulars file in for a brew They want porters and ales and Point Proven pilsner And that Frost Monster imperial stout too. Tarrytown’s Ryan Shaw brought...