This week on Beer Sessions Radio™, we’re honoring our home base: Bushwick Brooklyn! Aside from our studio inside of Roberta’s, Bushwick is home to many special places including Good Beer Seal Bar Pine Box Rock Shop (owners Jeff and Heather Rush are in the studio), Arrogant Swine (owner Tyson Ho regales us of life as a pitmaster in industrial Bushwick), and Hops and Hocks‘ Blake Jordan and Rachel Chitwood.
There’s a definite change in the neighborhood as more businesses come in and real estate prices go up, but the Bushwick beer scene has a rich history, which beer writer Chris O’Leary (Brew York New York) reflects on later in the show. Hops & Hocks has built its business on a made-in-Brooklyn and growler shop, and they’re sampling food and beer and discussing session IPAs. “There’s a time and place for every beer,” notes Chris.
Also from Bushwick is another Good Beer Seal bar, The Sampler. Raphael Martinez also reflects on how much his street in the neighborhood has grown in terms of new restaurants.
Chris notes that for a long time, the only place to get good beer was The Bodega but now you can walk from “deep” Bushwick towards East Williamsburg for a “wealth of beer options.”