NY Times Article about Brooklyn Beer Distribution

At the Atlantic Antic this year Allan and I were talking about how SixPoint basically owned Atlantic Avenue for 12 hours. They must have had a stand every block, sometimes 3 to a block.

Brooklyn Returns to a Heady Time

By PAUL ADAMS

Published: October 28, 2008

BROOKLYN produced one-fifth of the nation’s beer as recently as 1960. By 1976, when Rheingold and Schaefer shuttered their Brooklyn plants, the number of local breweries dropped to zero.

Now the hops are stirring in Brooklyn once again.

Sixpoint Craft Ales, which has been brewing an increasingly popular range of beers in a small brew house in Red Hook for four years, just bought a bottling line and a brewing system that will let it increase production tenfold — to about 60,000 barrels a year.

They’re hoping to close a deal on a property in Williamsburg to install their new equipment soon.

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