A View From Overseas

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Elise Okusami - Oceanator)

NYC multi-instrumentalist Oceanator takes us through her favourite breweries stateside and some non-alcoholic tipples that should be making waves across the pond!

afternoon when it was hitting just right between the buildings. Sometimes the neighbors would be out on their roof and we’d do a far away cheers and wave.

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Okay, let’s start with the local New York ones! I’ve Forever, Ever: Anime, Trauma and Divorce by actually yet to visit these breweries, I was planning actually yet to visit these breweries, I was planning Open Mike Eagle Open Mike Eagle to last summer, but alas. Oh…: Oh… Brat by Nnamdï Green City: No Dream by Jeff Green City:

Other Half Brewing Rosenstock Rosenstock

I love Other Half. They have some of my very favorite beers. They make Singlecut Brewery Singlecut Brewery a really good IPA and they have a Another place that does really good Another place that does really good bunch of them that are just subtly IPAs. I like the IPAs that have a little IPAs. I like the IPAs that have a little different. My favorites are the Green bit of fruitiness more than bitter ones, bit of fruitiness more than bitter ones, City, the Oh… and the Forever Ever. and they do some really great ones. and they do some really great ones. The Forever Ever is a session IPA, New England Style IPAs. They’re New England Style IPAs. They’re too, which is great because these Two big beers from Other Half Brewing, Brooklyn, NY named after a style of guitar, and days one big beer is a lot for me. Over recently did a little series of beers the summer I’d pick one out, then crawl out onto dedicated to music stuff. I only got to try two of my fi re escape with a book or my journal and my them - Grunge, which had a plaid background and headphones and just hang out in the sun in the those white round sunglasses Kurt Cobain used to

wear, and Weird & Gilly after Bowie, which was actually one of my favorite beers I’ve ever had.

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Weird and Gilly by David Bowie (you kinda have to) Diving by buddie Any Heatmiser

Weird & Gilly from Singlecut Brewery, NY

Athletic Brewing

I found out about these folks because Adult Mom posted about them on twitter. At the beginning of the pandemic I was having a nice beer every day as something to look forward to (as mentioned above), and I thought it might be nice to try fi nding some NA versions that could take the place of that occasionally. They’re based in Connecticut, but you can have the beers shipped to you in the mail so that’s what I did. They’ve got a bunch of Run Wild non-alcoholic IPA from Athletic Brewing co, CT different kinds. I started with the Run Wild, which is good, sort of like an IPA. I recently met up with a friend and we did a little trade of different NA beers we had so we could try some more stuff, and he gave me their Free Wave one and that’s really nice too.

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Run Wild: Free I.H.by Illuminati Hotties (this was on repeat all summer) Free Wave: Flower of Devotion by Dehd

Brewdog NA’s

I know Brewdog is a big old company over in the UK, but they’ve got a brewery here in Ohio, too. I wanna talk specifi cally about the NA beers here though. I think their Hazy AF is my favorite of all the non-alcoholic beers I’ve had so far (still looking for more stuff though!). I also like the Hazy AF non-alcoholic Elvis AF which is super juicy. IPA from Brewdog, UK

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Hazy AF: Sorry is Gone by Jessica Lea Mayfi eld Elvis AF: Untenable by Bad Moves

So those are my top 4 four right now I’d say! Someday in the future I’d like to go around NYC and explore some more of the small ones, or take a trip upstate and check out the ones that are popping up out there, but that’s for postpandemic times.

Leigh Shorter

Beer: Don’t Fear The NEIPA by Black Iris Brewery. I’m really enjoying this juicy as fuck New England IPA from the Nottingham crew and its got the Reaper crushing a beer on it. What’s not to like?

Record: Closer’s Within One Stem. It’s a short, sharp, sweet slab of post hardcore/screamo loveliness. SLAPS HARD!

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