Beer Street

Update: Beer Street is now a bar and not a bottle shop

If I had to pick one thing that was wrong with my corner of Williamsburg, it was that we didn’t have a craft beer store. A place for those with restless palates and hearty livers to discover new bottles and generally geek out about our favorite beverage. Well, now the beer gods have smiled upon the denizens of Graham Avenue, with the opening of Beer Street.

The shop’s doors just opened today, and my first glimpse was promising. There are ten draft lines, with growlers ranging from $5-$12 for 32oz and $10-$24 for 64oz. I didn’t recognize anything on the opening day draft list, aside from the Rodenbach. Styles range from a Greenport Chinook hopped scotch ale to a Le Bilboquet La Corriveau oatmeal stout. They’re also stocking 100 bottles, about half of which have arrived, including one of my all-time favorites, Saison Dupont. I picked up a very nice bottle of Carnegie Porter ($4.25), which I’ve never had before, and would definitely get again.

Although the selection is certainly not as vast as some places, I was pleased to see so many unfamiliar varieties. The shop definitely has that narrow, wood-planked, old-timey apothecary feel, and there is a small space in the back where they’ll be hosting events and home brewing classes. I hope they get a few tables and chairs, so my fellow beer geeks and I can give the draft list a proper study. But then, the store is located so tantalizingly close to my roof. And when it comes to the best place to have a beer, you can’t beat a rooftop on a warm evening in Brooklyn.

Beer Street
413 Graham Ave between Withers St. and Jackson St., Williamsburg
2pm-10pm