191 5th Ave Park Slope, Brooklyn ,NY

Welcome to Bierkraft, a gourmet grocery and beer emporium located on glorious Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. We offer a delectable assortment of over 250 artisan cheeses, 7 collections of boutique chocolates, over 100 gourmet chocolate bars, the smallest production, most rustic charcuterie we can find, a slew of gourmet goodies and over 1000 beers as well as 14 fresh beers on tap in growlers.

Our cheeses come from all over the planet, from Tasmania to Wisconsin and all sorts of scrumptious spots in between, and we carry many cheeses that we order directly from American farms. Come in and we will taste cheese until we find the ones that suit your palate and your mood.

For chocolate lovers, we are proud to offer select assortments of bonbons from Garrison (the inimitable Andrew Shotts from Rhode Island), MarieBelle (New York), Michel Cluizel (France), Moonstruck (Oregon), Tumbador (Brooklyn) and 6 beer flavored chocolates made exclusively for us by Eric Girerd (New Jersey).  Our extensive chocolate bar collection features phenomenal chocolates by Chapon, Dagoba, Dolfin, Don Puglisi, El Rey, Galler, Green & Black, Michel Cluizel, New Tree, Nirvana, Paper Bag Chocolates, Scharffen Berger and Slitti.

Among the gourmet delicacies at Bierkraft, you will find Petit Jesu (a salami big enough to fill the cradle in the manger), Boquerones (white anchovies from Spain), preservative free smoked salmon, crackers, cookies, spreads, salsas, Martelli pasta, Peet´s coffee and Zapp´s potato chips. We also offer a fabulous array of non-alcoholic beverages like Fentiman´s sodas, Virgil´s Bavarian brewed root beer and Voss water.

 

Made fresh on premises, our House Roasted Turkey is meadow raised, organic and comes directly from Cloonshee Farm in Hobart, NY, delivered by our favorite farmer, Marnie (if you stop by around noon on a Wednesday, you can meet the charming Marnie and hear tales of when she rode horses for the King of Saudi Arabia).  Whether you choose the juicy Oven Roasted, Herbed or Honey Glazed Turkey, you can be completely confident that they contain no fillers, hormones or antibiotics.  That applies as well to our HouseMade Roasted Brown Sugar Ham, made from Berkshire pork, our Grass Fed Roast Beef (organic, too), our Wagyu Eye Round from domestically raised Kobe beef, our Chicken Salad Caroline and our Organic Duck Leg Confit (chicken and duck from Cloonshee).

Our collection of over 900 beers has been lovingly assembled by our handsome cellar manager, Timothy Ensor, and features brews from Brazil (Xingu), Harlem (Sugar Hill), Japan (Hitachino) and everywhere that makes great beers. Bierkraft carries over 250 Belgian beers and a thirst-quenching assortment of American microbrews in addition to an array of international ales, lagers, porters, stouts, APAs, IPAs, Double IPAs, lambics and every beer style in between. In addition to our stupendous assortment of bottled beers, we also feature 9 fresh beers on tap, available in our signature Bierkraft growler.  Our own ludicrously talented Benjamin Granger built our "growler machine" and devised a counter pressure fill so that our growlers stay fresher longer (as long as 3 months unopened).  We try to choose beers that are not available in bottles and we lean toward local breweries as much as possible. One beer is chosen to be dry hopped (the beer is run through three separate filters filled with hops, another Benjamin Granger creation) for extra hop flavor and aroma up front.  The beers on tap change daily, so stop by to see what is in now.

 

Don´t forget to grab one of our Shameless Ice Cream Sandwiches on your way out, voted one of 8 best in all of New York City by New York Magazine.  The brownie is made here with Michel Cluizel chocolate, Vermont Cultured butter, organic flour, organic eggs, Muscavado sugar, Madagascar vanilla, sea salt and a dash of Tilburg Dutch Brown ale.  Il Laboratorio del Gelato´s Vanilla Chocolate Chunk gelato nestles between the two brownie cookies for a truly decadent treat.

We also assemble gift baskets, are happy to deliver locally (NYC) or ship and host on premises tastings on Tuesdays at 7 PM as well as corporate events.