A hundred years ago the city was overrun with breweries and the streets ran gold with homemade beer. But then there was Prohibition, competition from giant national brands and a changing tavern culture, and after a while the breweries pretty much died out. But in the past couple decades the boroughs have seen a rise in local beer culture—helmed by the handful of NYC breweries we've been exploring.
Inside New York City breweries
A photographer and a writer walk into a brewery (several of them)...
By Edith Zimmerman
MetromixJuly 27, 2009
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Inside: Brooklyn Brewery
A photo tour of the Williamsburg brewery, complete with cats in sacks and free beer.
Inside: Chelsea Brewing Co.
Making beer on the Hudson, in NYC's only microbrewery-brewpub.
Inside: Kelso of Brooklyn
The Clinton Hill beer-makers reveal their dark, golden and reddish secrets.
Inside: Sixpoint Craft Ales
The Red Hook brewers feed us grain, beer and moonshine.
Pictured: Kelso of Brooklyn assistant brewer Rob Johnson, photo by Michael Harlan Turkell
