Wednesday, April 26, 2006

CELIAC TEEN WORKSHOPS IN NYC

Celiac teens (age 13-18) are invited to sign up for the new Teen Workshop Series led by nutritionist Anne Lee of the Celiac Disease Center at the Columbia University Medical Center.

Planned for the first meeting: kitchen tips from Chef Tony Ficuciello, an appearance from the Celiac Chicks, and a contest to come up with a better name than Teen Workshop Series. It's all scheduled for Sunday, May 7, 2006 from noon to 4:30 pm.

Event registration costs $20 and continues through May 4. Click here for more information.

Thursday, April 20, 2006























UPSTATE HONEY BREW HONORED AT GF BEER FESTIVAL!

Congratulations to Ramapo Valley Brewery's Passover Honey Lager for being one of five cutting-edge beers to take blue ribbons at February's Gluten-Free Beer Festival in Chesterfield, England:
Ramapo Valley Brewery Passover Honey Lager
(USA, no gluten-containing ingredients)

Lakefront Brewery New Grist
(USA, no gluten-containing ingredients)

Green's Explorer Stout
(UK, no gluten-containing ingredients)

O'Brien Premium Lager

(Australia, no gluten-containing ingredients)

Fine Ale Club's Against the Grain
(UK, less than 13ppm)
As mentioned in the preceding post, both Passover Honey Lager and New Grist are available at Bierkraft in Park Slope.

Photo courtesy of glutenfreebeerfestival.com

Monday, April 10, 2006

A NEW GF BEER AVAILABLE IN BROOKLYN!

Park Slope's Bierkraft is now selling Lakefront Brewery's gluten-free New Grist beer (in from Wisconsin) in addition to Ramapo Valley Brewery's Passover Honey Beer. As of this post, six-packs of New Grist are selling for $10.99; Bierkraft sells the Honey Beer for $11.24 per six-pack.

Here you can watch two online commercials for New Grist.

If Park Slope, Brooklyn is out-of-the-way for you, Bierkraft may be able to mail the beer to your address.

And word has it that, in addition to Bard's Tale, two gf beers from the UK may become available in the USA in the near future!

Saturday, April 08, 2006

BARD'S TALE HITS THE COMEBACK TRAIL!

It's happening. Again.

Not very long ago, Bard's Tale Beer made a splash with its gluten-free Dragon's Gold lager but the brewer soon ran into production problems and then things just fizzled out. Perhaps you remember hearing about the flat beer, the foaming beer, and the exploding bottles. Perhaps not.

Anyway, AP (via seattlepi.com) reports that the brew is making a comeback this month. The company is talking May. It seems that the goal is nationwide availability, but I'm not yet sure about the kind of distribution the brew will get in the New York metropolitan area.

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

BLOOM'S UPDATE.

I just got a new rough estimate of late April for the re-opening date of Bloom's Delicatessen.