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Enjoy great eats, amazing drinks at Dime Best of Brooklyn Fest!
Industry City will host lots of special
brews and local food for the third-annual
Dime Best of Brooklyn Food &
Beer Festival on Jan. 26, featuring several
breweries and eateries from in and
around Brooklyn.
Craft beer lovers will be able to have
UNLIMITED tastings from Brooklyn
breweries that include Island To Island,
Sixpoint, Coney Island Brewing, Five
Boroughs Brewing Company, War Flag
Brewing, Wartega Brewing, Brooklyn
Brewery and Coney Island. You can
also have a hard kombrewcha!
If that’s not enough to make you
thirsty, you can also indulge in free
Johnnie Walker and Bulleit Whiskey
cocktail tastings.
BK Chef
Pair your beer or cocktail with some
of the best food around. Featured
food vendors include BKChef, Keki
Cakes, MozzArepas, Oaxaca Taqueria,
Dinosaur BBQ Brooklyn, Table 87
Coal Oven Pizza, Empanada Papa,
Three Little Pigs, Dining With Bee
and more.
Keki Modern Cakes
There’s also plenty of great entertainment
lined up, including live DJs,
break-dancing by Wondrous Studio
and the Coney Island Brewing Photo
Booth.
Tickets to the event are available at
BestofBrooklynFestival.com and start
at $39! Ticket buyers can choose from
three sessions offered.
Industry City is located at 274 36th
Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn and the
event is on the second floor of Building
1 (just follow the signs). Take the D
and N trains to the 36th Street station,
or the M14A or X17 buses to get there.
There is also ample parking nearby.
White Coff ee in LIC releases new blend in honor of 80th anniversary
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELLDOMENECH
adomenech@qns.com
@AODNewz
Long Island City coff ee roaster and
importer White Coff ee is celebrating its
80-year anniversary with the release of a
new blend.
Th e special medium roast blend called
Fourscore will be offi cially released this
week at the Winter Fancy Food Festival in
San Francisco and will be sold in retail outlets
worldwide.
White Coff ee boasts more than 400
unique fl avors and blends and currently
has contracts with several high-profi le
chains like Entenmann’s, Joltin’ Joe, First
Colony specialty coff ees and Jim Beam.
Fourscore is a breakfast-blend like fl avor
with sweet notes but with a full body.
Aft er 80 years of business, the company
has a lot to commemorate.
White Coff ee started out as White-
Kobrick coff ee in 1939 sold America’s most
beloved dark beverage to offi ces. When
founder David White decided to branch
out on his own that same year, White
Coff ee continued to sell primarily to offi ces.
Th e current front of White Coff ee in
Astoria.
But as coff ee consumption in the United
States climbed in the 1950s so did the
company’s success. Soon, White Coff ee
Corporations success is the offi ce coff ee
supply world carried them over to the food
service industry.
When David White died in the 1970s, his
son Irwin headed the company as the age
of gourmet coff ee hit the U.S. Th e company
at this time would give seminars to their
customers around the country and at the
Astoria factory. White Coff ee was the force
behind the “specialty coff ee” wave that hit
the industry.
In the 1980s, White Coff ee was one of the
fi rst to use vacuum packaging to extend the
shelf life of its coff ee. In 2013, the company
began selling recyclable, organic, single-cup
coff ees. Th e next year, White Coff ee took
the idea of sustainability in coff ee one step
further by launching biodegradable single
cups.
A major factor in why White Coff ee has
been able to grow and be a pioneer in the
coff ee world is that people seem to like their
products.
“You don’t retain customers across
the nation for 10, 15, 20 years or more
unless you keep them very satisfi ed,” said
Executive Vice President Jonathan White.
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