With New York Comic Con just around the corner, we are pumped to release the Brooklyn Defender on New York City. The collaborative beer will be sent through the city showing civilians what a real beer tastes like. To celebrate this great new superhero of a beer, Brooklyn and NYCC are teaming up to host four Brooklyn Defender Pint Glass giveaway nights over the days leading up to New York Comic Con.
Brewed in league with New York Comic Con, The Defender is a 7.2% Amber IPA brewed to protect flavor, variety, deliciousness, versatility and honesty in beer. Order a Brooklyn Defender at the dates and bars below and you’ll get to keep the Tony Millionaire designed limited edition pint glass (while supplies last, of course). In addition to giveaways of these limited edition pint glasses, we’ll have more NYCC swag for you, including official NYCC 2012 Posters and a few of the much coveted (and sold-out!) 4-Day Tickets.
If you can’t make it out to the events above and want to taste The Defender, aside from pouring at Brooklyn Brewery during New York Comic Con, some kegs of this heroic ale will find their way to the following bars (while supplies last — call ahead to confirm):
Brooklyn
- Barcade
- Bar Great Harry
- Kent Ale House
- Mugs Ale House
- Nitehawk Cinema
- One Stop Beer Shop
Manhattan
- ABC Beer Co.
- Amity Hall
- Amsterdam Ale House
- Beer Authority
- Beer Table Pantry
- Blind Tiger
- The Brooklyner
- Cascabel Taqueria
- City Swiggers
- Cooper's
- Corner Stone Tavern
- DBGB
- Dive Bar Amsterdam Ave
- Dive Bar Broadway
- George Keeley's
- Ginger Man
- Good Beer
- The Growler Station
- Lansdowne Road
- The Malt House
- Manchester's
- Marshall Stack
- New York Beer Company
- One Mile House
- Penrose
- Pony Bar (Hell's Kitchen & UES locations)
- Rattle N Hum
- Spring Lounge
- Stout
- Swift
- Valhalla
- Waterfront Ale House
Queens
Want to get to know the Brooklyn Defender a little better?
Once, a long time ago, benevolent Beer Gods bestrode the lands of the world, bringing wonderful beer and great happiness to the People. Collaborating joyously among themselves, the Beer Gods defended the pleasures of the table and promulgated the virtues of Flavor, Variety, Deliciousness, Versatility and Honesty in beer. And the People loved them for it.
But the Beer Gods were far too trusting – in truth, they were not without enemies. Out of the stygian depths of the Earth’s crust rose a cabal of anti-Beer Gods, the Megaliths. Taking the peaceful Beer Gods by surprise, the warlike Megaliths cast a powerful spell that drove the Beer Gods down into the shadows. Flavorful beer vanished from the land, and the People wept. Their victory complete, the Megaliths sent among us the ghostly pale, thin tasteless beers known colloquially as “foam jobs”. Blandness led to mediocrity, mediocrity led to hate, and hate led to suffering. And O, how the People suffered! They forgot the true taste of beer, the soft rustle of barley, the smell of hops.
And then, just as it seemed that the darkness had stamped out all good things, a new dawn rose over Brooklyn. A hero came to rescue the people from the iron grip of the Megaliths – The Defender! Spawned in deepest Brooklyn and robed in a cowl of shimmering amber, the Defender wielded the rich power of caramel malts, the sharpest unbreakable blade of pure hop bitterness and an incredible focused blast of hop aroma to shatter the Megalith’s spell. The Beer Gods awoke to find themselves forever shielded within the hearts of the People, and once again the great virtues of true beer spread through the land. Even now, the Defender will be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Should your shadow ever grow long, your spirit sag, and your knees buckle, you need only remember these words
– BRING FORTH THE DEFENDER!