DRAFT Magazine

If you haven’t already had the pleasure, they’ll be plenty of time to get yourself over to the Brazen Head. One of Brooklyn’s finest institutions and home to the renowned Cask Ale Festival has just renewed their lease for 10 long, ale-filled years in their NYC locale. They will be celebrating as only the Head can, with the happiest of happy hours this Friday, March 12th, 2010.

This bash will be underway from 4 p.m. to 4 in the wee hours of the a.m., so there’s really no excuse to miss this celebration. The Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band will perform on this hallowed day from 9 p.m. to midnight, and the bar is offering their loyal followers to attend with no cover charge and no drink minimum to attend.

DRAFTMag.com enthusiasts may already have had the pleasure of reading about our dealings with the Brazen Head, and now you’ll have roughly 30 more of the popular tri-annual Cask Ale Festivals to look forward to. These unique festivals feature cask ale, which is not artificially carbonated and has a tendency to maintain a much more unique flavor profile and personality. These ales aren’t housed in those familiar pressurized steel drums with their shiny tap lines and their newfangled carbonation, but rather in modern versions of their wooden barrel predecessors. It is unfiltered and unpasteurized. It is, in short, the real thing. All ale.

To another 10 years of good Head… we can all drink to that.

– Mariah Beckman