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Nov 30, 2009 Matt 1 Comment

Voyage of Beer – Heartland Brewery (Union Square, NYC)

For some reason last week I wanted the Baked Chicken Enchiladas at Heartland Brewery, and if this was my food blog, you’d probably see a picture of them with a short description overrun with lame adjectives like delicious, tasty, and terrific. This isn’t my food blog though and all you get is the ugly animated gif below. I know, you don’t have to say anything – you’re welcome.

In all seriousness, the beers at Heartland Brewery in Union Square, NYC are delicious, tasty, and terrific. While my favorite out of the six Heartland Brews is the Harvest Wheat, I think I’d be happy if you bought me any of them except for maybe the Farmer Jon’s Oatmeal stout.

Anyone have any suggestions for other bars/restaurants/breweries in NYC that brew their own beers?

If anyone is in need of some music to go with their drink, please check out my buddy Steve’s new blog – I Blog What I Hear. If you’d rather look at some cupcake porn, go check out my new post this morning – Cupcake Crawl NYC – New York.

Heartland Brewery in Union Square, New York City

Where the beer gets made at Heartland Brewery in NYC

Beer samplers at Heartland Brewery in Union Square, NYC

description of beers at Heartland Brewery in Union Square, NYC

sequence of drinking - Voyage of Beer at Heartland Brewery, NYC

Heartland Brewery
‪35 Union Sq W # 1‬
‪New York, NY‬‎
‪(212) 645-3400‬‎

Nov 23, 2009 Matt 10 Comments

Boxing Match Drinks – Rum Milkshakes, Margaritas, and Beer

As you’ve hopefully read over at I Blog What I Eat, I’ve been working together with my friends at Linwood Liquors to set up this new site that will focus on drinking rather than eating. There will be a few new writers, in addition to myself, for this blog, and I’ll introduce them to you as soon as they’re ready. Hopefully Eric will agree to write a post every now and again as well, as his vodka watermelon post is actually the most popular post on my other site.

Right, so if you didn’t come from my Hot Wings, Guacamole, Summer Rolls, and Dog Soup post at I Blog What I Eat, I suppose that the title and pictures below might be a bit confusing. The mix of drinks below are the result of us not know what to serve at a boxing match watching party. I’ll try to break down the drinks that were available that night to the best of my ability:

Beer – Corona, Kingfisher, Heineken Light, Negro Modelo, Magic Hat Circus Boy

Margaritas – 2 parts tequila (Herradura silver or anejo), 1 part Cointreau, 2 part freshly squeezed lime juice (we squeezed about 50 limes)

Rum Milkshakes – 1 half-gallon carton of Breyers ice cream, 1/4 bottle of 10 Cane Rum, and 1/8 carton of organic milk found in the back of a refrigerator

Random questions that I will ask so that readers will interact with this terrific new website:

I know there are a lot of different ways to mix margaritas, how do our ratios look to you? Do you salt your margarita glass? How many gallons of ice cream do you put in your rum milkshake? Lastly, are there better beers to serve for a boxing match?