24 The Queens Courier • JULY 9, 2015 for breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com 3 Get to know a local brewer at the LIC Flea this weekend BY THE QUEENS COURIER STAF [email protected] @QueensCourier Visitors to the LIC Flea & Food this weekend will have the chance to win a free Citi Bike membership while also getting to know more about a local brewery. The popular Long Island City market, located at Fifth Street and 46th Avenue, will be debuting the first event of its “Meet the Maker” series, where visitors will be able to get to know local breweries and speak with the makers behind the product. This weekend, Finback Brewery will be taking over the LIC Flea Beer Garden and the beer makers, along with the brewery’s owner and founder, will be on hand to share their brewing process and what makes Finback beer unique. Seven different Finback beers will be available to try this weekend. The LIC Flea Beer Garden, exclusively serving beers brewed in Queens from local breweries including Rockaway Brewery, Queens Brewery, Finback and SingleCut, will also now be a place for interactive games. Stop by the beer garden and try your hand at games such as Jenga, Connect Four or even supersized chess. Citi Bike will also be offering free memberships to some lucky shoppers at the market this weekend as it gets ready to soon make its debut in Queens. Visitors are encouraged to stop by the LIC Flea table and ask about how they can win. Long Island City was supposed to be part of the Citi Bike’s initial phase, which debuted in 2013, but was pushed back after equipment damages from Superstorm Sandy caused a delay. Last October, the company announced that both LIC and Astoria would be part of a list of neighborhoods in the city that will be receiving the bike docking stations. This weekend will also feature live music. LIC Flea & Food runs every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through the end of October. For updates on the LIC Flea & Food market, follow on Facebook.com/LICFlea, Instagram. com/LICFlea and @LICFlea on Twitter. Photo by Liam La Guerre Finback Brewery founders Kevin Stafford and Basil Lee. Photo by Cristabelle Tumola Make sure to check out these vendors the next time you take a trip to the LIC Flea & Food 1) Ultimate Battle facebook.com/UltimateBattleGame Twitter: @UltBattle I www.GameCor.com Created by two guys who love to play games, Ultimate Battle is the creative card game that challenges you to think outside the box. With a deck of colorful, evocative cards, some markers and crayons, a big sheet of paper, and all the imagination you can muster, you’ll face off against friends in an epic sketch-fight. In a world where we’re all too glued to our tiny screens, the Ultimate Battle guys invite you to look up and talk to each other. With Ultimate Battle, creativity and imagination are king. 2) Osaka Grub Hiyashi Chuka is a Japanese dish where chilled noodles are placed in a soy sauce, sesame oil and chili oil broth with a series of toppings. The one in the picture is quite basic, with strips of roasted seaweed, tomatoes, cucumbers and egg on top of ramen noodles. They would serve this in an “as you like” format. Patrons could select up to three vegetable toppings and a protein (vegetarians can choose up to five). Hiyashi Chuka is a popular dish, which is perfect in the hot summers in Tokyo, and is fairly underrepresented in New York. 3) Bulldog Burgery After traveling the country with their burgers and fries, Bulldog Burgery returns home to Queens, serving their amazing hand-cut fries at the LIC Flea. Using fresh, whole potatoes, they cut and fry their potatoes twice to perfection. Seasonal, rotating sauces will make sure your fries never go naked again. 4) Nighthawk’s Kitchen Nighthawk’s Kitchen is a comfort food rest stop and catering company that focuses on creating a fun and satisfying eating experience. Whether it’s their hand-ground, freshly seasoned homemade sausage, their award-winning Buffalo Mac n Blue Cheese or one of their handcrafted BBQ or hot sauces — all of their food is made from scratch with no preservatives and using fresh ingredients from local farms and dairies. Their made-to-order breakfast sandwiches combine farm-fresh eggs, smoked bacon, ham or homemade sausages, and sometimes a mouthful of their creamy mac n cheese... just ask for a Scary Gary! 5) Scrubbity Bath Products Scrubbity Bath Products is a one-woman show, offering a variety of bath products such as salt and sugar scrubs, soaps of all different scents and colors, as well as soap dishes and loofahs. No matter the scent or color, the soaps Scrubbity makes guarantee satisfaction. The scents range from all natural essential oils like peppermint and grapefruit to kid-friendly scents such as snowcone and berry swirl. Baby shower, bridal shower and gift baskets are also available. 2 1 4 5
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