{"id":6018,"date":"2009-08-14T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:45:30","slug":"waterpod-cheese-festival-beer-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/6018\/waterpod-cheese-festival-beer-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Roundup: What&#8217;s Summer Without a Waterpod, Cheese Festival, and Beer Week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t yet, pay a visit to the 3,000-square-foot <a title=\"Waterpod\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaterpod.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waterpod<\/a>\u2014a bit of a hippie sustainable art project\u2014which will be docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park August 14-17. [<a title=\"NYT Waterpod\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/13\/arts\/design\/13barge.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=4&amp;emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NYT<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Beer and cheese enthusiasts should set aside August 23 for the 13th annual Vermont Cheesemakers Festival, where ch\u00e8vre will be paired with Pilsner-style beer and semi-firm cheddar will partner with India Pale Ale. Take Amtrak to Rutland. [AMNY]<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019re on the subject, DC Beer Week begins August 16-21 with participants from 12 breweries and 25 restaurants\u2014mark your calendar for Big Hunt\u2019s Sausage, Cheese and Beerliciousness. [<a title=\"DC Beer Week\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/blogarticles\/artsfun\/afterhours\/13291.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washingtonian<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan\u2019s beloved music venue Knitting Factory announced this week that it will move the 22-year-old establishment to a smaller space in Williamsburg, where it will reopen on September 9. [NYT]<\/p>\n<p>New organic grocery store Fresh Fanatic is set to open in Fort Greene on August 18, supposedly with better prices than Whole Foods. [<a title=\"Clinton Hill Blog news item\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clintonhillblog.com\/2009\/08\/13\/3538\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ClintonHillBlog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The fellows behind FreeIceCream.net are throwing their last summer BBQ in Williamsburg on Sunday, August 23 at Huckleberry Bar; expect free food, free Maker&#8217;s Mark milkshakes, free prizes\u2014all you have to do is listen to their music. [FIC]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Courtesy of JglSong and Vermont Butter and Cheese Company<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- flickrset: 72157621913215031 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t yet, pay a visit to the 3,000-square-foot Waterpod\u2014a bit of a hippie sustainable art project\u2014which will be docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park August 14-17. [NYT] Beer and cheese enthusiasts should set aside August 23 for the 13th annual Vermont Cheesemakers Festival, where ch\u00e8vre will be paired with Pilsner-style beer and semi-firm cheddar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,325,271,333],"tags":[108,125,130,20,204],"class_list":{"0":"post-6018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-new-york","8":"category-news","9":"category-vermont","10":"tag-beer","11":"tag-food","12":"tag-green","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-train"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}