Those of you who go way back with Pacific Standard may remember our Fortnight of Fury, a promotion we ran just after we opened. During those two weeks, people who came to the bar each day and consumed our consumables were rewarded handsomely for their efforts. We've been feeling nostalgic for those days, and wanted to give our fine customers a new opportunity to achieve everlasting glory and less everlasting, but still solidly made, medium-sized dry goods. Behold:
THE THIRTNIGHT OF FURY
JUNE 1-30
Doctors report that one beer a day is as good for your heart as regular exercise, so we've created a month-long event in honor of that idea. Over the course of the thirty days of the month of June, come by the Standard and consume thirty different craft beers (we mean "different" in the sense of different brands; no just having thirty of the same beer). All who complete this task will be rewarded with a party on Thursday, July 9, at which beer shall be available for the cut-rate prices of $2 or $3 a pint, there will be ample food (pizza and such), and we will give away some of our new merchandise, and some rare beer, as well as two very grand prizes:
1. A fancy-pants dinner for two at one of our favorite craft beer and locally grown food places, The Farm on Adderley in Ditmas Park. (You have the dinner, bring us the receipt, and we'll reimburse you up to $140, which should get you a nice three-course meal plus beverages.)
2. A $100 gift certificate to Bierkraft in Park Slope. They have awesome beer, you have $100, enough said.
So gird yourselves and come by any time starting June 1 to get the Official Thirtnight of Fury Sheet, which your bartenders will stamp for each separate beer you have. Happy tasting, and may mighty Juno bless your endeavors.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Sierra Nevada Best Bitter now on cask!
Seldom do we see this choice Sierra offering out here at all, much less on cask, as a good English bitter should be served. Come by soon to check it out:
Sierra Nevada Best Bitter (Chico, CA; $6/16 oz). Brewed using imported English malts and hops, this medium-bodied, copper-colored beer is a California rendition of the popular English Best Bitter style. A very drinkable, yet flavorful ale, rarely seen on the East Coast. 5.0% ABV.
Sierra Nevada Best Bitter (Chico, CA; $6/16 oz). Brewed using imported English malts and hops, this medium-bodied, copper-colored beer is a California rendition of the popular English Best Bitter style. A very drinkable, yet flavorful ale, rarely seen on the East Coast. 5.0% ABV.
Friday, May 22, 2009
We're open as usual
on Memorial Day weekend: 12 pm-4 am Friday, 12 pm-4 am Saturday, 12 pm-4 am Sunday (with pub quiz at 8:30), and 4 pm-4 am Monday. Stop by for refuge from the thunderstorms the weathermen are predicting and to while away the long weekend with summer beer and snacks.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Chin Music is good on the 28th.
Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series
Featuring Glyn Maxwell, Rick Barot, and Lytton Smith
Thursday, May 28th 2009 @ 7:00 PM
Please join us for the next evening of Chin Music, the Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series. On May 28th, we are thrilled to feature three excellent poets: Glyn Maxwell, Rick Barot, and Lytton Smith. Other writers to be featured in Chin Music this season include Sarah Manguso, Kevin Goodan, Dan Albergotti, Oni Buchanan, Paige Starzinger, Blue Chevigny, Major Jackson, and David Baker.
FEATURED WRITERS
Glyn Maxwell’s latest poetry collection, HIDE NOW, was published in 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and shortlisted for the 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize. He was appointed Poetry Editor at the New Republic in 2001, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Several of his books of poetry have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Poetry Prizes, and the Whitbread Poetry Award, and his most recent collections—THE BOYS AT TWILIGHT, TIME’S FOOL, and THE NERVE—were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He has written a number of plays (BROKEN JOURNEY, THE LIFEBLOOD, BEST MAN’S SPEECH, and THE FOREVER WALTZ), radio plays (CHILDMINDERS), opera libretti (THE GIRL OF SAND and THE BIRDS), and novels (BLUE BURNEAU and THE GIRL WHO WAS GOING TO DIE). Glyn Maxwell is currently adapting Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE for Moving Pictures Theatre Company. He lives in England.
Rick Barot has published two books of poems with Sarabande Books: THE DARKER FALL (2002) and WANT (2008). His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New Republic, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and teaches both in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at Pacific Lutheran University.
Lytton Smith was born in Galleywood, England, and lives in New York City, where he is a founding member of Blind Tiger Poetry, a group which aims to find innovative ways to promote contemporary poetry. His book, THE ALL-PURPOSE MAGICAL TENT (Nightboat Books, 2009) was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Nightboat Prize. His chapbook, MONSTER THEORY, was selected by Kevin Young for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and published in 2008. His poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Atlantic, Bateau, The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Tin House, Verse, and the anthology All That Mighty Heart: London Poems.
Featuring Glyn Maxwell, Rick Barot, and Lytton Smith
Thursday, May 28th 2009 @ 7:00 PM
Please join us for the next evening of Chin Music, the Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series. On May 28th, we are thrilled to feature three excellent poets: Glyn Maxwell, Rick Barot, and Lytton Smith. Other writers to be featured in Chin Music this season include Sarah Manguso, Kevin Goodan, Dan Albergotti, Oni Buchanan, Paige Starzinger, Blue Chevigny, Major Jackson, and David Baker.
FEATURED WRITERS
Glyn Maxwell’s latest poetry collection, HIDE NOW, was published in 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and shortlisted for the 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize. He was appointed Poetry Editor at the New Republic in 2001, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Several of his books of poetry have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Poetry Prizes, and the Whitbread Poetry Award, and his most recent collections—THE BOYS AT TWILIGHT, TIME’S FOOL, and THE NERVE—were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He has written a number of plays (BROKEN JOURNEY, THE LIFEBLOOD, BEST MAN’S SPEECH, and THE FOREVER WALTZ), radio plays (CHILDMINDERS), opera libretti (THE GIRL OF SAND and THE BIRDS), and novels (BLUE BURNEAU and THE GIRL WHO WAS GOING TO DIE). Glyn Maxwell is currently adapting Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE for Moving Pictures Theatre Company. He lives in England.
Rick Barot has published two books of poems with Sarabande Books: THE DARKER FALL (2002) and WANT (2008). His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New Republic, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and teaches both in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at Pacific Lutheran University.
Lytton Smith was born in Galleywood, England, and lives in New York City, where he is a founding member of Blind Tiger Poetry, a group which aims to find innovative ways to promote contemporary poetry. His book, THE ALL-PURPOSE MAGICAL TENT (Nightboat Books, 2009) was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Nightboat Prize. His chapbook, MONSTER THEORY, was selected by Kevin Young for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and published in 2008. His poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Atlantic, Bateau, The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Tin House, Verse, and the anthology All That Mighty Heart: London Poems.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
New summer cocktail menu!
Behold it, in all its glory:
Blueberry Lemonade ($8): Blueberry and citrus vodka, muddled lemon and sugar, topped with soda.
The Carney Lansford ($8): Muddled lemon, sugar, and cucumber, gin, topped with soda.
Dark and Stormy ($8): Jamaican ginger beer topped with Myers dark rum.
Kaffir Caipiruski ($8): Hangar One Kaffir Lime vodka, muddled lime and sugar, topped with soda.
The Mike Gallego ($8): Rogue white rum, scotch, and bitters, topped with coke.
Negroni ($9): Anchor Junipero gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth, garnished with a slice of orange.
Rogue Mai Tai ($8): White and gold Rogue rum, triple sec, pineapple juice, lime juice, Grenadine.
To celebrate the clinking, sloshing advent of our summer cocktails, they'll all be $1 off from now through Thursday the 21st. So come by and try them soon.
Blueberry Lemonade ($8): Blueberry and citrus vodka, muddled lemon and sugar, topped with soda.
The Carney Lansford ($8): Muddled lemon, sugar, and cucumber, gin, topped with soda.
Dark and Stormy ($8): Jamaican ginger beer topped with Myers dark rum.
Kaffir Caipiruski ($8): Hangar One Kaffir Lime vodka, muddled lime and sugar, topped with soda.
The Mike Gallego ($8): Rogue white rum, scotch, and bitters, topped with coke.
Negroni ($9): Anchor Junipero gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth, garnished with a slice of orange.
Rogue Mai Tai ($8): White and gold Rogue rum, triple sec, pineapple juice, lime juice, Grenadine.
To celebrate the clinking, sloshing advent of our summer cocktails, they'll all be $1 off from now through Thursday the 21st. So come by and try them soon.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Thirtnight of Fury June 1-30.
Those of you who go way back with Pacific Standard may remember our Fortnight of Fury, a promotion we ran just after we opened. During those two weeks, people who came to the bar each day and consumed our consumables were rewarded handsomely for their efforts. We've been feeling nostalgic for those days, and wanted to give our fine customers a new opportunity to achieve everlasting glory and less everlasting, but still solidly made, medium-sized dry goods. Behold:
THE THIRTNIGHT OF FURY
JUNE 1-30
Doctors report that one beer a day is as good for your heart as regular exercise, so we've created a month-long event in honor of that idea. Over the course of the thirty days of the month of June, come by the Standard and consume thirty different craft beers (we mean "different" in the sense of different brands; no just having thirty of the same beer). All who complete this task will be rewarded with a party on Thursday, July 9, at which beer shall be available for the cut-rate prices of $2 or $3 a pint, there will be ample food (pizza and such), and we will give away some of our new merchandise, and some rare beer, as well as two very grand prizes:
1. A fancy-pants dinner for two at one of our favorite craft beer and locally grown food places, The Farm on Adderley in Ditmas Park. (You have the dinner, bring us the receipt, and we'll reimburse you up to $140, which should get you a nice three-course meal plus beverages.)
2. A $100 gift certificate to Bierkraft in Park Slope. They have awesome beer, you have $100, enough said.
So gird yourselves and come by any time starting June 1 to get the Official Thirtnight of Fury Sheet, which your bartenders will stamp for each separate beer you have. Happy tasting, and may mighty Juno bless your endeavors.
THE THIRTNIGHT OF FURY
JUNE 1-30
Doctors report that one beer a day is as good for your heart as regular exercise, so we've created a month-long event in honor of that idea. Over the course of the thirty days of the month of June, come by the Standard and consume thirty different craft beers (we mean "different" in the sense of different brands; no just having thirty of the same beer). All who complete this task will be rewarded with a party on Thursday, July 9, at which beer shall be available for the cut-rate prices of $2 or $3 a pint, there will be ample food (pizza and such), and we will give away some of our new merchandise, and some rare beer, as well as two very grand prizes:
1. A fancy-pants dinner for two at one of our favorite craft beer and locally grown food places, The Farm on Adderley in Ditmas Park. (You have the dinner, bring us the receipt, and we'll reimburse you up to $140, which should get you a nice three-course meal plus beverages.)
2. A $100 gift certificate to Bierkraft in Park Slope. They have awesome beer, you have $100, enough said.
So gird yourselves and come by any time starting June 1 to get the Official Thirtnight of Fury Sheet, which your bartenders will stamp for each separate beer you have. Happy tasting, and may mighty Juno bless your endeavors.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Preakness on Saturday.
Yes, we'll have the Preakness in all its Marylandish glory on Saturday. Coverage starts at 5, and the race will be a bit after 6 pm. We'll figure out some specials, and enjoy watching Mine That Bird battle Rachel Alexandra.
Patch and pint glass special.
We're so deliriously pleased with our new patches and pint glasses that we've decided to offer them as part of a series of summer specials we're planning. To wit: starting now, if you and/or your buddies (so, yes, you can combine drinks on one tab) drink four glasses (12 or 16 ounces) of our fine tap beers in one evening, you will have the option to purchase either a Pacific Standard logo iron-on patch or a Pacific Standard logo pint glass for the at-cost price of $3. Essentially, we're trying to reward you for having a pleasant evening of droll conversation and droller beer here at the Standard. And keeping us company during those humid summer months. We'll see your air-conditioned selves here soon.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
In case you're wondering
John Oliver is super-double-confirmed for tomorrow night's Topsham Pantsuit comedy. So come by, and do so as early as you can.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Great Chin Music lineup for this Thursday.
Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series
Featuring Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif
Thursday, May 14th 2009 @ 7:00 PM
web: http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com
email: chinmusicpoetry@gmail.com
Please join us for the next evening of Chin Music, the Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series. On May 14th, we are excited to feature three excellent poets: Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif. Other writers to be featured in Chin Music this season include Glyn Maxwell, Major Jackson, Kevin Goodan, Dan Albergotti, Lytton Smith, Oni Buchanan, Paige Starzinger, Blue Chevigny, and David Baker. Series curated by Colin Cheney.
FEATURED WRITERS
Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections MATADORA (Alice James Books) and DELIVERED (Persea Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. She teaches at Fordham University, and is co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization that promotes Asian American poetry.
Mrigaa Sethi was born in Delhi, raised in Thailand, and now teaches creative writing, literature, and composition in New York City. In 2007 she was a winner of an Amy Award through Poets and Writers for New York women under thirty. Her work appears in Gauge, Folio, and Seneca Review.
Born in exile, Solmaz Sharif completed majors in Sociology and Women of Color Writers at U.C. Berkeley. While there, she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. She holds an MFA from New York University's Creative Writing program, where she taught creative writing and was a Goldwater Fellow.
Featuring Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif
Thursday, May 14th 2009 @ 7:00 PM
web: http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com
email: chinmusicpoetry@gmail.com
Please join us for the next evening of Chin Music, the Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series. On May 14th, we are excited to feature three excellent poets: Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif. Other writers to be featured in Chin Music this season include Glyn Maxwell, Major Jackson, Kevin Goodan, Dan Albergotti, Lytton Smith, Oni Buchanan, Paige Starzinger, Blue Chevigny, and David Baker. Series curated by Colin Cheney.
FEATURED WRITERS
Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections MATADORA (Alice James Books) and DELIVERED (Persea Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. She teaches at Fordham University, and is co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization that promotes Asian American poetry.
Mrigaa Sethi was born in Delhi, raised in Thailand, and now teaches creative writing, literature, and composition in New York City. In 2007 she was a winner of an Amy Award through Poets and Writers for New York women under thirty. Her work appears in Gauge, Folio, and Seneca Review.
Born in exile, Solmaz Sharif completed majors in Sociology and Women of Color Writers at U.C. Berkeley. While there, she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. She holds an MFA from New York University's Creative Writing program, where she taught creative writing and was a Goldwater Fellow.
Topsham Pantsuit on Wednesday at 8 pm.
Join us at Pacific Standard for Topsham Pantsuit: a pleasant evening of comedy, book cases, exotic beers, and Bernadette from http://www.amishpuggles.com
With hosts RITCH DUNCAN and WILL HINES.
FEATURING:
JOHN OLIVER (The Daily Show)
MEGAN GANZ (The Onion)
ADIRA AMRAM (Musical Genius)
JOSH COMERS (Hilarious Man)
AND A CARTOON PRESENTATION FROM:
NEIL NUMBERMAN (New Book "Joey Fly: Private Eye")
With hosts RITCH DUNCAN and WILL HINES.
FEATURING:
JOHN OLIVER (The Daily Show)
MEGAN GANZ (The Onion)
ADIRA AMRAM (Musical Genius)
JOSH COMERS (Hilarious Man)
AND A CARTOON PRESENTATION FROM:
NEIL NUMBERMAN (New Book "Joey Fly: Private Eye")
Friday, May 8, 2009
Hoppin’ Frog B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher now on tap!
Fresh off the delivery truck, the Hoppin' Frog keg we just tapped may be the first-ever B.O.R.I.S. served (legally) in New York City. The details:
Hoppin’ Frog B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher Oatmeal Imperial Stout (Akron, OH; $6/12 oz). Hoppin’ Frog is a great Ohio brewery that’s now available for the first time ever in New York City. Their oatmeal Russian Imperial stout has an intense, deep-roasted flavor. A robust hop character adds a refreshing balance. Winner of the GABF Gold Medal in 2008. 9.4% ABV.
Get here soon to taste that Akrony goodness.
Hoppin’ Frog B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher Oatmeal Imperial Stout (Akron, OH; $6/12 oz). Hoppin’ Frog is a great Ohio brewery that’s now available for the first time ever in New York City. Their oatmeal Russian Imperial stout has an intense, deep-roasted flavor. A robust hop character adds a refreshing balance. Winner of the GABF Gold Medal in 2008. 9.4% ABV.
Get here soon to taste that Akrony goodness.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Patches and pint glasses.
We now have some beautiful Pacific Standard logo pint glasses, for those of you with arms, mouths, and operational, thirsty stomachs, as well as some very cool iron-on patches, for those of you with jackets, backpacks, or heat-insensitive arms. Pictures are below; the patches go for $5 and the pint glasses for $6. Come by and pick some up (they make great Mother's Day gifts, I don't care what people say).
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The Ace Cider folks
stopped by on their way back to Sebastopol from Boston:
which was very nice of them. We're planning on getting some interesting new products from them soon; stay tuned.
which was very nice of them. We're planning on getting some interesting new products from them soon; stay tuned.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Lots of new stuff now on tap.
We had a perfect storm of beer consumption this weekend, so, like a ship raising fresh sails after removing its weather-torn rags, we now proudly hoist a vastly changed tap menu. Interesting new beers include:
Bear Republic Rebellion (rare, tangy offering; back after a long absence).
Eel River California Blonde (Eel River, the nation's first certified organic brewery, has finally made it out to the East Coast. This is the first beer of theirs that we've carried.)
Ithaca Flower Power (this awesome hop blast is back in New York City, but as usual, probably for only a limited time.)
Sierra Nevada Summerfest (first time we've had this excellent summer brew since last year).
Stoudt's Smooth Hoperator (Stoudt's 20th anniversary beer is an American-style doppelbock. Another beer we've never had before.)
Two Brothers Domaine Dupage (a beer and a style we've never had before--a rural northern French amber ale. Really nicely balanced and drinkable.)
Weyerbacher Echo (back for a limited time--one of only a very few kegs left of this one-off copper ale.)
Bear Republic Rebellion (rare, tangy offering; back after a long absence).
Eel River California Blonde (Eel River, the nation's first certified organic brewery, has finally made it out to the East Coast. This is the first beer of theirs that we've carried.)
Ithaca Flower Power (this awesome hop blast is back in New York City, but as usual, probably for only a limited time.)
Sierra Nevada Summerfest (first time we've had this excellent summer brew since last year).
Stoudt's Smooth Hoperator (Stoudt's 20th anniversary beer is an American-style doppelbock. Another beer we've never had before.)
Two Brothers Domaine Dupage (a beer and a style we've never had before--a rural northern French amber ale. Really nicely balanced and drinkable.)
Weyerbacher Echo (back for a limited time--one of only a very few kegs left of this one-off copper ale.)
Friday, May 1, 2009
Fiction reading on Tuesday.
The Pacific Standard Fiction Series: Adventures in Consciousness
featuring Benjamin Kunkel and Rivka Galchen
Tuesday, May 5th, 7:00 p.m.
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (between St. Marks and Bergen)
Books available on-site!
Drink specials selected by dartboard!
Come see why New York Magazine named us "Best New Literary Event of 2008!"
*
Benjamin Kunkel's first novel, INDECISION (Random House), was a national bestseller and was selected as a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. Kunkel, a founding editor of N+1, has also written for The New Yorker and The London Review of Books.
"One could quote endlessly from this book, which is made of almost nothing but good lines. . . . Dwight as a character is silly and sometimes shrewd as well as likeable; as a narrator, he's heaven." - The New York Observer
Rivka Galchen's first novel, ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES (FSG; now a Picador paperback), was a New York Times Notable Book and was named one of the best books of 2008 by both Salon.com and Slate. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, Zoetrope, and The New York Times. Galchen, who earned an MD from Mount Sinai in 2003, has also been honored with a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She currently teaches writing at Columbia University.
"A brainy, whimsical, emotionally contained first novel . . . Galchen’s inventive narrative strategies call to mind the playful techniques of Jonathan Lethem, Franz Kafka, Primo Levi and Thomas Pynchon." - The New York Times
featuring Benjamin Kunkel and Rivka Galchen
Tuesday, May 5th, 7:00 p.m.
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (between St. Marks and Bergen)
Books available on-site!
Drink specials selected by dartboard!
Come see why New York Magazine named us "Best New Literary Event of 2008!"
*
Benjamin Kunkel's first novel, INDECISION (Random House), was a national bestseller and was selected as a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. Kunkel, a founding editor of N+1, has also written for The New Yorker and The London Review of Books.
"One could quote endlessly from this book, which is made of almost nothing but good lines. . . . Dwight as a character is silly and sometimes shrewd as well as likeable; as a narrator, he's heaven." - The New York Observer
Rivka Galchen's first novel, ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES (FSG; now a Picador paperback), was a New York Times Notable Book and was named one of the best books of 2008 by both Salon.com and Slate. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, Zoetrope, and The New York Times. Galchen, who earned an MD from Mount Sinai in 2003, has also been honored with a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She currently teaches writing at Columbia University.
"A brainy, whimsical, emotionally contained first novel . . . Galchen’s inventive narrative strategies call to mind the playful techniques of Jonathan Lethem, Franz Kafka, Primo Levi and Thomas Pynchon." - The New York Times
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