Lots of booze news to report today:
Grub Street has the closing date for Red Hook booze-arium LeNell's - February 20. This of course is due to the dreaded "lease issues" and we can only wonder what kind of crack their landlord is smoking.
Eater is on the scene with a report of how the Feds quashed Six Point Ale's "Hop Obama" brew. Seems the Dept of Homeland Security put the "kabosh" on the whole thing and even threatened seizure. Ouch.
Lastly, we are somewhat intrigued that Dan Aykroyd is at Astor Wines today (12pm - 2pm) to shill for his vodka. Huh? Yup, you can get autographs but you can't taste the vodka. Guess you'll have to fork over $50 and let us know how if it's worth it.
Grub Street has the closing date for Red Hook booze-arium LeNell's - February 20. This of course is due to the dreaded "lease issues" and we can only wonder what kind of crack their landlord is smoking.
Eater is on the scene with a report of how the Feds quashed Six Point Ale's "Hop Obama" brew. Seems the Dept of Homeland Security put the "kabosh" on the whole thing and even threatened seizure. Ouch.
Lastly, we are somewhat intrigued that Dan Aykroyd is at Astor Wines today (12pm - 2pm) to shill for his vodka. Huh? Yup, you can get autographs but you can't taste the vodka. Guess you'll have to fork over $50 and let us know how if it's worth it.
Re: LeNell's--her official closing date may be this Friday, but the store itself is completely cleaned out already. I went on Saturday, and the shelves were bare save for a few of bottles of bitters and one or two lonely $200+ bourbons.
Thanks for the update