I was impressed by the size of the space with different areas ranging from communal picnic tables to an industrial bar to a few nooks and crannies with tables to an area overlooking the actual brewhouse. These are all new buildings and the people who come around seemВ mostly from the tech start-up world that operates around here. Their brewpub is in aВ quickly changing areaВ of Dumbo away from the park and behind the highway. It enabled me to try their entire line-up of house made beers, spend less than $15 and walk out of there still relativelyВ sober. I was in heaven at Randolph Beer when I discovered I could have an ounce of this and an ounce of that. Over the years, their beer bars have become known for a self-serve machine where you take a card and it keeps count of how many ounces of beer you have had. AlcoholВ sells more than coffee, I guess.ДЄnd just like they were innovating coffee back in the day, their brewery set-up is quite different than most. The Randolph on Broome Street no longer opens for coffee in the morning and now that one location has spawned a craft beer bar next door, another in Williamsburg, and a full-on brewery in Dumbo. My iced coffeeВ with malted milk powder and Oaxacan chocolateВ is still memorable all these years later.

It felt like someoneвЂ™s living room and they were not serving your usual coffee. Back in 2011, it was a very under-the-radar spot in Nolita that was a cozy coffee bar during the day and a cocktail bar at night.

I remember the first time I visited The Randolph. My search for the best beer in New York continuesвЂ¦.

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