A bike wheel! Because it's made in Brooklyn, obvs
This sure isn’t that Absolut-ly dubious branding campaign Spike Lee attached himself to a few years ago. For the first time, you can now get actual Brooklyn-made vodka (as in, with that famous, bagel-christening BK water) at local liquor stores and bars, the Brooklyn Paper reports. The Brooklyn Republic Vodka is made out by a father and daughter team in a warehouse near the Navy Yard, using grains from the midwest. Brooklyn Paper says you can get it at Juice Box Wine and Spirits in Windsor Terrace and at bars Cherry Tree and Commonwealth in Park Slope. It sells for $23, we assume for the bottle sized pictured here. So I want to try it but … don’t have $23. Can someone check it out and report back whether it’s worth splurging on over the $15 handle of glorified rubbing alcohol I usually get?
Kings County whiskey
If you drink in Brooklyn, you may have heard: We’re about to get us some distilleries. This Sunday, Aug. 1, marks the grand opening of two of Brooklyn’s new crop of hard-liquor houses: Kings County Distillery in East Williamsburg and Breuckelen Distilling Co. in Sunset Park. And to show you what they’ve got, the new factories are offering free (and almost free) opening-day tastes of their Brooklyn spirits. Kings County Distillery (35 Meadow St.) is giving free quarter-ounce tastes of whiskey from noon to 4 p.m.; and Breuckelen (77 19th St.) is offering three quarter-ounce tastes for $3 from noon to 6 p.m., along with distillery tours. Our thanks to the skint for the tastings tip.
