Hot New Trends In The Entertainment World: Get Real NY Craft Beer & Food Festival -- March 19-20, 2011 at Altman Building in NYC

Get Real NY Craft Beer & Food Festival -- March 19-20, 2011 at Altman Building in NYC

Get Real NY’s Craft Beer & Food Festival is returning to the Altman Building in NYC’s Flatiron District on Saturday, March 19, 2011 and Sunday, March 20, 2011 for two more days of free-flowing suds and nonstop local eats. The all-you-care-to-taste event is being held across four sessions.

Get Real NY is excited to have Brother Jimmy's as the official BBQ Sponsor of the festival, Brother Jimmy's will be at all 4 weekend sessions serving up their signature Pulled Pork and Pulled Chicken Sliders to attendees!

The centerpiece of the festival will be the Cask Bar, which will showcase 80+ cask ales from some of the nation's best craft breweries and homebrewers. Attendees can expect rare cask finds like Sierra Nevada Harvest, Green Flash Double Stout, Lagunitas Brown Shugga, Blue Point 10th Anniversary IPA, Ballast Point Sculpin IPA and Sixpoint Diesel. The beer lineup is available on the Get Real NY website here and is being updated daily as new beers come in.

The festival will also feature local beers from Brewery Ommegang, Brooklyn Brewery, Greenport Harbor Brewing, Kelso of Brooklyn, Empire Brewing Company & Sixpoint Craft Ales.

Joining the mix will be several NYC beer-focused bars like Rattle N Hum, Jimmy's No. 43, The Stag's Head, Brickyard Gastropub, and Manchester Pub, who will be at the festival serving up specialty beers and some bites.

Get Real NY has greatly expanded its food pairing program at this year's event. Attendees can expect food tastings from some of NYC's top restaurants, bars, food trucks and food artisans, including:

Anfora, Luke's Lobster, Fatty Crab, Cascabel Taqueria, Cafe D'Alsace, Brother Jimmy's, Loreley Williamsburg, Mexicue, Murray's Cheese, L'asso Pizza, South Houston Restaurant, Petite Abeille, The Delta Grill, Frites n' Meats, Lucy's Whey Cheese Shop, Orwasher's Bakery, Rick's Picks, My Friend's Mustard, Kings County Jerky Co., Meze Grill, Frites 'n' Meats, Grandaisy Bakery, La Bella Torte and more.

Cask Beers:

* Dogfish Head 75 Minute Johnny Cask
* Dieu du Ciel Peche Mortel
* Stone Brewing Sublimely Self Righteous w/ Amarillo Ale
* Stone Brewing Smoked Porter w/ Vanilla
* HeBrew Bittersweet Lennys RIPA
* Coney Island Vertical Jewbelation
* Dieu du Ciel Corne du Diable IPA
* Ridgeway Quercus
* Fullers ESB
* Fullers London Pride
* J.W. Lees Harvest Ale (Port Cask)
* RCH Old Slug Porter
* Burton Bridge Festival Ale
* Harvey's Lewes Castle Brown Ale
* Williams Bros Fraoch Heather Ale
* Williams Bros Joker IPA
* Willams Bros Midnight Sun
* Williams Bros Scottish Session Ale
* Thornbridge Merrie
* Great Divide Titan IPA
* Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
* Great Divide Hercules Double IPA
* Great Divide Belgica
* Two Brothers Cane & Ebel
* Two Brothers Resistance IPA
* Two Brothers Heavy Handed IPA
* Victory Yakima Glory
* Blue Point 10th Anniversary
* Sierra Nevada Northern Hemisphere Harvest
* Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale
* Oskar Blues Mama's Little Yella Pils
* Green Flash Le Freak
* Abita Red
* Troegs Nugget Nectar
* Troegs Pale Ale
* Defiant Little Thumper
* Defiant IPA
* Greenport Harbor Disorient IPA
* Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA
* Firestone Walker Pale 31
* Bruery Saison De Lente
* Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA
* Lagunitas Imperial Stout
* Lagunitas Censored (Kronik)
* Sixpoint Oyster Stout
* Sixpoint Righteous Rye
* Sixpoint Chocolate Rye
* Sixpoint Bengali Tiger IPA
* Left Hand Black Jack
* Lagunitas Pale
* Lagunitas maxiPus
* Lagunitas Hairy Eyeball
* Thornbridge Hall Country House Brewery Jaipur Cask
* Thornbridge Hall Country House Brewery Kipling Cask
* Harviestoun Brewery Bitter & Twisted Cask
* Harviestoun Brewery Shiehallion Cask
* Ballast Point Big Eye
* Ballast Point Sculpin
* Double dry-hopped Wolaver’s IPA
* Otter Creek Double dry-hopped Black IPA
* Troegs Pale Ale
* Oskar Blue's Dales' Pale Ale

You can expect to taste food from places like:

* Luke's Lobster
* dell'anima
* Loreley
* Cafe d'Alsace
* Cascabel Taqueria
* Mexicue
* Murray's Cheese
* Oysters from Blue Island Shellfish Farms
* L'asso Pizza
* Meze Grill
* Jimmy's 43
* Rick's Picks
* Manchester Pub
* The Stag's Head
* Rattle n Hum
* Petite Abeille
* First Prize Pies
* Rick's Picks
* Roni-Sue Chocolates
* Murray's Cheese
* Frites 'n' Meats
* Anfora
* South Houston Restaurant
* My Friend's Mustard

Pics from the Event are taken by Anna Kuchma of AK Event Photography