After months of anticipation, the 2010 installment of NYC Craft Beer Week has finally arrived!  So dust off your drinking shoes because it’s going to be a wild and crazy ride.
Aside from some of the hotly anticipated events such as dinner at Mas and home brewer apartment tours, one of the best parts about the next 10 days is simply visiting some new (or oft overlooked) bars participating in this year’s Passport.  As a public service to all New York imbibers, we’ve decided to publish our closely guarded and way-too-much-time-spent-on-developing …

Now that we all know just how important it is for everyone to participate in NYC Craft Beer Week, here’s exactly how to do it.  It’s simple really.  Just go online here or go to one of the participating bars to pick up one of these NYC Beer Passports:

At the frankly ridiculously low price of $10, you can’t afford not to get one.  Plus, most of the coupons in the Passport have offers which extend well beyond October 3rd, when NYC CBW ends.  But time is running out so hurry …

New York City is a tough place to make it… it doesn’t matter if you are a hard working indie rock band, an uber-talented pastry chef or a humble handmade pork dumpling shop.  Why is that?  First off,  there’s tens of thousands of people who are trying to do the exact same “thing” as you – no matter what that “thing” might be – and New York’s Darwinian culture only recognizes the most successful of the lot.  Second, to make matters worse, a clear hierarchy has been established in New …