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First thing is to get to Williamsburg, from your hotel, go to the nearest subway, and find a train that stops at any of the stations along 14th Street. Then from there, get the L train through to Bedford Avenue (first stop in Brooklyn!).

I’m going to try take you on a bit of a loop around Williamsburg.
This will be about a 2 mile loop all in all but you’ll have plenty of beer choices. I’ll even throw in some other food choices too, which you may want to consider along the route.

Outside the Subway station (leave the exit for Bedford Avenue, head straight over the road, and into Spike Hill. It’s a good starting point, as it’s so close to the subway.

Once you’re done there, head UP Bedford Avenue (with the traffic, that is), and take the 2nd left on North 8th Street. Walk to the end of the block and you have Brooklyn Ale House, on the left, and the opposite corner, you have Teddys.

Again, head up Berry street, and right on North 10th Street, back to Bedford Avenue, then you have Mugs Ale house. North on Bedford again to North 12th Street, and you’ll have the Turkey’s Nest – This is the neighbourhood dive bar, but they do do 32oz styrofoams of Coors Light for under $4, so you can’t really go wrong. Good Jukebox too!

By now you’re probably in need of some more beer, or something to eat. So lets tackle both. Leave Turkeys Nest, and walk along the park (North 12th Street), until you meet Union Ave, Walk 2 blocks to Richardson Street, and then at the end turn Right on Lorimer Street. You then have on your right, Petes Candy Store. No, not candy, but more beer. They do sandwiches, but don’t bother. They do also have live music in the back room.

From here you can go towards the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, and you will get to Withers Street, turn right, and you’ll find Bamontes, a proper old school italian restaurant. It’s nice, but you’ll probably be too tired to continue this amazing pub crawl, so maybe save that for a later date.

If you don’t do Bamontes, don’t turn right there, but turn left, and you’ll come across Lorely on your left. This is the first german style biergarten on your journey around. I’ve not yet been here, it is on my to-do list, so let me know if you make it.

Once you’ve done Lorely, head back in the direction you came from, and when you see a hotel on your right, you need to veer across under the BQE, This is the Hotel Le Jolie where I sometimes stay in Brooklyn, Cross under the BQE safely, and then on the left hand side, on the corner of Union Ave, you’ll find Union Pool (featured as Brooklyn Pool, on the movie, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist!). Again, this place does live music in the back room.

Walk out of Union Pool, turn left, and down Union Avenue, then Right down Metropolitan Avenue. You’ll pass the Knitting Factory, and on your right, there is a new pub that I can’t remember the name of, not been in it, and also there is Spuyten Duyvil for some more drinks. (only the second place i’m recommending that I’ve not been to!)

Across the road from there is a great BBQ place called Fette Sau, bring your appetite, order the brisket, ribs, and they weigh your tray, and you pay by the lb. Pay for that, and grab a communal table, and then choose a beer served from the other bar. Oh yes, this is a great place to eat and drink.

Once done at Fette Sau, keep walking down Metropolitan, Now, you can do one of 2 things. Keep going with this epic crawl, or when you hit Bedford, take a right, and head back up to the subway.

Keep going? Good. Walk past bedford, and on Berry take a right. next block on the left hand side you have Radegast Biergarten. Good beers here too.

Now, as you walk out of Radegast, head down the other direction to what you walked (yeah, you’ve had to double back on yourself, and walk down 7 blocks to South 4th. On the corner of South 4th and Berry, you’ll find a small neighbourhood bar that I adore. Great beer, and the huckleberry lemonades, which are much more alcoholic than they taste.

If at this point you’ve not eaten, well, you can do one of 2 things, eat at the bar, but they don’t do food, but they do have a folder of menus, so you can basically choose anything, make a phone call, and get it delivered. Also, this bar does cups of tea. english breakfast tea. posh green tea.. but you don’t want tea.

Your other option, is to leave the pub and turn right, and at Driggs Avenue, turn Right, and then you’ll come across Peter Lugers. Bring cash only they don’t accept credit cards, and have a great steak. Depends on how much beer you’ve consumed though.

Near Peter Lugers is Marcy Avenue on the J train, so you can head back into Manhattan there. Change at Chambers Street for the 4/5/6 back up to your hotel, and sleep off Williamsburg.

Now onto Beers. Kelso of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Brewery, and Sixpoint are all local breweries, so I’d recommend you try some of them on your journey around. If you want to be cheap and blend in, it’s a $2 pabst blue ribbon..(not my thing!)

That is a complete night there for you in a post. I am in the process of creating a google maps of this very pub crawl to make it easier to navigate around too!