A couple weeks back, Sarah Lohman, author of Four Pounds Flour and Very Good Friend of the Brainery tweeted the awesome little map below, Distilleries in Brooklyn in 1851. Sarah's map focuses on Central Brooklyn, and I love how you can see how concentrated they were in this relatively small area.
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I wanted to see how the past compared to the recent explosion in distilleries...
On November 1, we're psyched to be hosting an event at the Brainery that combines two wonderful things: beer and robots.
The folks at Analog Method have been hard at work brewing a porter with an Arduino microcontroller alongside to monitor its progress. The robot tweets from @floatingptale, so be sure to follow along to see how things are going, then join us to sample the brew and learn all about the project on the 1st.
...2013 UPDATE: We ended up not doing coworking after all. Sorry, folks!
This winter, we're (really, officially) opening a new space in Prospect Heights.
It'll be the Brainery you know and love, along with a neat new addition: coworking! The space will be open during the day for all of us freelancers and coffee-shop nomads, a place to work around other awesome folks to learn from and collaborate with.
What's a new space without a get-together?...
It's a lovely place in Prospect Heights. And we're really excited, and eventually we will have many more details.
I used to live along Fort Greene Park, and every September, these delicious looking nuts would start to fall along the edge of the park. To my very untrained, but hungry, eye, they looked just like the chestnuts I'd eaten drunkenly in Vienna a lot, or drunkenly in Barcelona that one time, and so I was determined to roast a bunch and save a whole $5 by not having to buy them from the store.
So this past weekend, I boldly picked a couple...
