First Brewery Event To Occur
Stop on by on Tuesday, May 22nd, as Uncle Barry’s hosts its first-ever brewery event with a night of beer and discussion of beer from our friends at the Oskar Blues Brewery. Four different Oskar Blues kegs will be available for sampling or guzzling, depending on your mood or preferred method and speed of imbibing. Reps from the Colorado-based brewery will be on hand dispensing beer knowledge and t-shirts throughout this 62nd birthday of lyricist Bernie Taupin!
Dessert, Anyone?
Uncle Barry’s welcomes a new addition to the food lineup this week with the introduction of Nostalgia Bakeshop’s chocolate-Guinness whoopie pies. Nostalgia Bakeshop, which is also responsible for the preserves served with our cheese plate, is a Brooklyn-based bakery and general foodrarium headed by our good friend, Emily Hankey. Come by and try one with weekend with a glass of 21st Amendment Monk’s Blood or another Belgian-style ale.
Movie Monday Coming May 7th
Stop by on Monday, May 7th as our neighbors, Get Reel Video, present a screening of the 1985 classic, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, starring Paul Reubens back when he was cute and funny weird rather than tragic sex weird. The screening will begin at 8:30 pm and will obviously include a tequila toast during Pee-Wee’s big dance number.
Baseball Soon, Enter to Win!
As the NCAA Tournament nears completion and everyone’s brackets fall apart, we can turn our heads and wagering vices towards the upcoming 2012 MLB season. Get in on the action with Uncle Barry’s MLB playoff pool; it’s easy — pick all ten teams that will make the postseason in 2012 and win. Come by and ask the bartender for more information.
Additionally, the Direct TV MLB package has been purchased so the bar will have access to every game for every team throughout the season, save for MLB’s typical blackout bullshit. Feel free to come by or call ahead and request any game you’re interested in watching. In keeping with Josh’s Midwestern origins and Uncle Barry’s loyal band of Wisconsinites, Brewers games will get priority, but with two TV’s plus the projector screen, everyone should be able to get their home team fix.
Novel Beer Has Interesting Backstory, Tastes Great
There is a lot to say about the Scloss Eggenberg Brewery and its signature offering, the Samichlaus Bier Helles. The brewery, which is located at Eggenberg Castle in Vorchdorf, Austria, has been continuously brewing beer since the 1300′s. Six centuries of Austrian rise and decline, a slain Archduke and one Führer later, the fruits of this historic enterprise have landed within the friendly confines of Uncle Barry’s, one of just two bars in greater New York to offer this exotic brew. With an ABV around 14%, the Samichlaus is one of the strongest beers available in America, so it should have you feeling pretty good when you’re done. Come by and check it out while the getting’s good.
Is Good, Yah?
As the calendar sends winter off with a swift kick in the knickers, Uncle Barry’s seasonal house cocktail lineup welcomes a new spring addition – Cøktäl. Gin, lingonberry syrup, lemon juice, Aperol and St. Germain, topped with soda and garnished with a cherry, Cøktäl runs $8 or $6 during happy hour.
Springtime, go!
The backyard has been furnished with two picnic tables and several tons of chip marble and is ready to be enjoyed people who like to be outside while they drink. More seating and some flora are on the horizon, come by and check it out.
Hello Donut Lab
All of Uncle Barry’s cheese plates will now be accompanied by fresh homemade fruit preserves courtesy of The Donut Lab, a new food venture from our good friend, Emily Hankey. The Donut Lab is based in Brooklyn and has already come through with a rockin’ supply of rosemary-tomato-lemon preserves, seen below with the current UB’s cheese lineup:
Ale to the Chief
President’s Day beer pun LOL. The Mikkeller-3 Floyd’s collabo (short for “collaboration”) Boogoop, a buckwheat wine that UB’s is pleased to be one of just a dozen or so bars in the city to serve, is among the new beers on tap on this lovely holiday weekend. Also new to the bar this week is Glorious Gin from Sunset Park’s own Breuckelen Distillery. As is the case every day, the bar will open at 1pm, so if you have the day off on Monday stop by for a drink and if you don’t have the day off Monday stop by for a drink.