One line, without transfer, that you could take to every stop in Brooklyn and Queens (bonus add in Coney Island)

Thanks for another great episode. If you are still in NYC for climate week and need a beer (who doesn't these days), come check out our brewery in Brooklyn. We have an all electric brewery using a Thermal Fluid Heated system for our brewhouse.

Chris Holden from The Hop Guild standing in front of his first year Vista hop crop holding a can of Strong Rope Brewery’s Tenacity of Cones & Bines IPA, which features Vista hops.

It’s that time of year again! Hop harvest is upon us here in New York and the techniques that Chris Holden from The Hop Guild has learned over the years is paying off. The yards are looking great and first year Vista were absolutely bursting. Exciting stuff!

Red umbrella framed in an arched doorway with the Statue of Liberty in the distance shrouded in midst.

Lady Liberty looking mysterious today.

Love the winter feels!

Drinking at KCBC

Head Brewer Alex standing at the windows on this blustery January day in 2025 and contemplating the meaning of life and beer… and seagulls.

Welcome to 2025!

Say hello to “Field Trials”! These beers are part of our new collaborative series with The Hop Guild to determine brewing and agronomic quality of new Noble type hops grown in New York. Pilsner malt base is paired with Mt. Rainier on the left and a Hallertau varietal on the right. Come & enjoy!

You have to hit me up next time you come through and we’ll have a proper session… beer, Nigerian Spirits, whatever!

I like American Black Ale. Which I think is also better than American Dark Ale. We find that putting the term Dark in beer style names tends to scare people away. Not sure how the American Black Ale would do over the Black IPA.

Macro image of white splotches of dried caustics chemical on a blue floor.

Dried white caustic spill with a yellow hose coiled up at the bottom. A wooden pallet sits to the top right with barrels of chemicals on it

Strong Rope Macro Shots: Dried caustic on our blue production floor

Bottles of Dala IFE (left) and Pedro’s Ogogoro (right) sit on a marble countertop with a couple glasses filled with the liquors and a couple of blurred people in the background. Pretty sure it’s the camera and not my current state of vision.

Sometimes your night is made up of Nigerian Spirits, brought home to you by your cousin and life is good. Pedro’s Ogogoro and DALA-IFE.

That’s what my mom tells me too, so I know it’s true.

Thanks for stopping by! Glad you got to connect with Caitlin!

Women with ponytail, black gloves and gray hooded sweatshirt pries a nail from a barrel while a man with a hat and gray t-shirt and black gloves stands behind her with a glass ready to catch the barrel aged beer.

Time to check the barrels. Barrel aged beers aren’t something we do often, because we want to make sure we do it right and haven’t felt we’ve been able to give it the right level of care till now. But expect to see more in the months and years to come as we expand our library.

That’s some great company and excited to see Pub Ale on deck at JWF! We’ll have to catch up the next time you come through.

Exactly! The breadth of flavors coming from these beers is so overlapping that we have focused our attention on stout and its many sub styles. The one outlier is the Baltic Porter with the use of lager yeast.

@brewyork.bsky.social oh oh, what number are we???

Hand holding a dark beer (Lily’s Elixir Baltic Porter) with two rows of stainless steel fermenters behind them and a view in the distance to the New York harbor beyond.

This is our Baltic Porter “Lily’s Elixir”.

This is only one of the couple Porters we have brewed in 9 years, with our focus mainly being on stouts. In the current landscape of style shifts, where do people stand on stouts and porters needing separate categories as they bleed into one another?

Interesting. To you, is this a good thing, bad thing or just an observation? In your travels do you think brewery taprooms should focus on something specific for aesthetics?

Howdy!

Starting off this Bluesky journey with some blue sky and Lady Liberty in the morning. Hi to whoever’s listening.