Local beer is coming to the Greenmarkets! Diner's Journal reports today that this Friday, 25-year-old Mark VanGlad will start selling beer from his small Tundra Brewing operation at the Union Square Greenmarket. He's only bringing in about 50 cases of his "mild and hoppy" Ma-Pale ale, so get your sluggish post-Cinco de Mayo butt to the market early if you want to impress your locavore friends. more ›

The Landmarks Preservation Commission just awarded the former William Ulmer Brewery in Brooklyn landmark designation. The old brewery is at Belvidere and Beaver streets in Bushwick, and according to the Post is the first NYC brewery to get the LPC stamp of approval. A board member told the paper, "If it's the first brewery in the city of New York to become a landmark, it's appropriate that it's in Brooklyn," as the borough used to be the brewing capital of the Northeast. more ›

[Update Below] Sixpoint Craft Ales' most popular limited-edition brew, the "Hop Obama," dropped out of existence last month, with the last known kegs tapped on Inauguration Day. Most beer barons assumed that the Red Hook brewery had stopped producing it because it was always planned for a limited run, and while that is correct, today Brownstoner reveals there was a bit more to the story: The Federal Government actually came to Red Hook and ordered Sixpoint owners not produce anymore "Hop Obama." more ›