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Really Cool Thing: Brooklyn Brewery Small Batch Tours

Sometimes, it seems like all the best things in NYC happen during the workday. But since it's summer, here's hoping you can skip out of the office a bit early and head over to one of Brooklyn Brewery's Small Batch Tours, which take place every Monday-Thursday at 5pm. 

For $8, you get a small, in-depth tour of the brewery, tastings of four beers, and a glass to take home (plus way more). It jumped out at me as one of those...

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Hooray! Language Events with Fluent City

We're excited to partner again this month with the fine folks over at Fluent City to bring all of you a couple of their two-hour slang workshops (or any of their in-depth classes!) on the cheap.

These workshops are taught in English, so you won't need to be fluent in Spanish or French to pick up some fun phrases and avoid sounding like a silly American on the streets of Madrid or Paris. 

The next French slang...

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The Brainery & Fluent City

We're excited to partner with the fine folks over at Fluent City to bring all of you a couple of their two-hour slang workshops on the cheap.

These workshops are taught in English, so you won't need to be fluent in Spanish or French to pick up some fun phrases and avoid sounding like a silly American on the streets of Madrid or Paris. 

Both workshops take place on FridayFebruary 22, from 7-9pm at Fluent City's HQ in ...

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Masters of Social Gastronomy: The Best Food Lectures You'll Ever Meet

We're kicking off a new bar room lecture series all about food, and you're all invited to our very first one on Tuesday, January 31st. Welcome to Masters of Social Gastronomy! That's MSG, of course.

Each month, Sarah Lohman of Four Pounds Flour and Jonathan Soma of the Brooklyn Brainery will take on a curious food topic and break down the history, science, and stories behind it.

This month's topic is STRANGE MEAT! Sarah will recount...

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November 8: SASS Takes on the Civil War

Two big pieces of news for next month's meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Social Studies

What's different?

1) It's on Tuesday, November 8

2) It's at Public Assembly, 70 North 6th Street (best fact: the building used to be a mayonnaise factory.)

What's the same?

Everything else! Still 7pm, still free, still educational/fun, still full of themed drink specials.

This month's topic is the Civil War, and, since everyone in the...

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