Microbrews are lauded for their craftsmanship and distinguished by the tiny medals draped from their every molecule. Sample the finest of particles with today's Groupon to Village Pourhouse in the East Village, presented by iAdventure.com. Choose between the following options:
For $15, you get one VIP ticket to Winter Beertopia, which takes place at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 30, February 27, and March 26 (a $30 value). The VIP ticket includes 10 samples of a rotating selection of craft beers.
For $17, you get one VIP ticket to the Brewery of the Month beer tasting, which takes place at 7 p.m. on the first three Mondays of each month from January–June, excluding April 2 (a $35 value). The ticket includes:
- A beer-basics lesson from beer sommeliers
- Guided tasting of five sample beers
- One full bottle or pint of beer
- Beer notes
Beer enthusiasts convene with brewers and barkeeps at Village Pourhouse to celebrate their favorite hoppy beverages during special pub events. Revelers fill dry tankards with craft brews and discuss the sociopolitical possibilities of a perfect society during Winter Beertopia, an approximately three-hour tasting event showcasing a selection of more than 40 seasonal and specialty beers. Beer sommeliers and brand representatives stroll through the pub to answer questions as VIP patrons sip 10 complimentary samples of ales, porters, and lagers. Throughout the outing, dishes from the eatery’s full menu of classic American pub fare will be available for purchase (not included with today's Groupon).
VIP ticketholders for the 1.5-hour Brewery of the Month tasting can broaden their brew knowledge and saturate their palates with five spotlighted beers. The pub's beer sommelier expounds on the nectars during a beer-basics session. Attendees then put the month's selected thirst quenchers to the test, examining for body, flavor, complexity, and showmanship of bubbles. The tasting ends on a high note with a full bottle or pint of choice. Guests to both events bask among Village Pourhouse’s sleek, upscale sports-bar atmosphere, bedecked with a fleet of high-definition TVs and crimson booths. Artwork perches on exposed-brick walls, and the lounge’s fireplace gives birth to a litter of purebred candles flickering on the tabletops.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Superfoods
Deemed “superfoods” by organic grocers and by bank robbers whose escapes are foiled by slipping on their rinds, certain foods have nutritional attributes that recharge the human body in strange and amazing ways:
Pomegranates: Best known from the ancient Greek myth of Persephone, wherein the fabled Cyprian princess had to eat 30 pomegranates in under a minute to banish Rumpelstiltskin back to Hades, the antioxidant properties of pomegranates are used to turn harmful toxins into harmless chronic snoring.
Açaí Berry: First constructed in genetic laboratories in 2002, these superfruits are the most common phrase to appear in online banner ads, narrowly edging out “You won’t believe” and “She wore what?!” Eating a handful of açaí berries will give you one hour of laser vision, often directed outward.
Broccoli: Nutritiously toxic? This iron-rich death blossom warns human children not to eat it by giving them one poison-free bite as a warning. Children then instinctively know to refuse further consumption and are rewarded for their evolutionary savvy with a life-size chocolate catcher’s mitt.
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