Tørst

VENDANGES 2026
OCTOBER 9TH

Join us in celebrating this year’s grape harvest as we premiere these very special French brews with nearly 50 other bars & restaurants around the world:

Carignan - 2026 (7% abv) Blend of sour beer fermented on Carignan, Syrah, and Cinsault pomace from the 2023 and 2025 harvests

La Combe - 2026 (6.2% abv) Blend of sour beer fermented on Syrah, Cinsault, and Grenache pomace from the 2024 and 2025 harvests; lightly dry-hopped with Barbe Rouge

Cuvée Courson - 2026 (5% abv) Blend of sour beer fermented on Viognier and Vermentino pomace with freshly-brewed Saison Antoine

Cuvée Bourgeon - 2026 (6.5% abv) Blend of sour beer fermented on Terret Bourret, Viognier, Vermentino, and Carignan pomace; lightly dry-hopped with Sorachi Ace from Lot-et-Garonne

Cheers! to the harvest season

Host Your Private Event at Tørst!

Our private back room comfortably accommodates groups of around 40 guests and includes access to the adjacent area outside the room. The flexible layout works equally well for intimate gatherings and larger groups. Visit our website with the link in bio or contact Bart at [email protected] for rates and availability.

Cheers!

📸 : Liz Clayman

BOTTLE SHARE @ TØRST
this Sunday, August 23rd, from noon to 4 pm
featuring these gems by la brasserie des voirons by-the-glass:

Bière Vivante de Chenin - 2025 (6% abv) Blonde ale fermented with Chenin lees from Domaine Clos Rougeard (Brézé, France)

Bière Vivante Nondegu - 2024 (6% abv) Blonde ale fermented with Pinot Noir lees from JM Berrux (Côte de Beaune, France)

Bière Vivante de Sureau - 2024 (6% abv) Blonde ale fermented with garden-grown elderflowers

Bière Vivante de Terre (6% abv) Chartreuse-inspired blonde ale of mixed fermentation macerated with 17 local alpine herbs and matured in Clos Rougeard Brézé barrels

Bière Vivante Bourgeons de Sapin - 2024 (6% abv) Blonde ale made with hand-picked fir buds from the slopes surrounding the brewery

Bring a bottle*, make a friend! What better way to spend a summer Sunday afternoon in Greenpoint? No tickets required and no corkage fee; feel free to make a reservation to save your seat & give us an idea of how many to expect, but it’s not necessary—the more the merrier!

Cheers! long live the bottle share

Pictured: tasting barrels with my convivial host Valerian at Brasserie des Voirons back in January - Sam Casner

*To be clear, you need not bring a bottle to particpate! By all means, buy one when you get here! See ya Sunday

BOTTLE SHARE @ TØRST
Sunday, August 23rd, from noon to 4 pm
featuring a full lineup of la brasserie des voirons bottles, by-the-glass*

Bring a bottle, make a friend! What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon in Greenpoint? No tickets required and no corkage fee; feel free to make a reservation to save your seat & give us an idea of how many to expect, but it’s not necessary—the more the merrier!

Cheers! long live the bottle share

*stay tuned for more details on this lineup!

📸: Liz Clayman

Fox Farm Weekend @ Tørst
8/7 - 8/9

The most recent batch of “Barmy” was such a mind-blowing, characterful brew we couldn’t help but hold a sixtel back in our cold room to spotlight the beer in a wider weekend brewery feature. Tis the era for an English-style ale Renaissance it seems, and we couldn’t be happier about it! Both “Barmy” and “Corky” are made from grain malted by Thomas Fawcett & Sons, an 8th-generation, 200-year old malting company in West Yorkshire, UK, as well as a blend of mostly UK-grown hops. See below for more information on those brews, as well as many other beers on draft* for this special weekend feature

We hope you’ll join us!

Arietta - 2024 (7.2% abv) Spontaneously-fermented pale ale dry-hopped with NY-grown Cascade (ask about bottles of 2023 for a fun side-by-side!)

Avalonia - Red (5.6% abv) Barrel-aged and blended farmhouse-style ale conditioned on cherries and raspberries

Barmy (6.2% abv) Burton-style ale brewed with Thomas Fawcett & Sons Malt malt (Maris Otter and Halcyon base, plus Amber and Dark Crystal 1, plus a bit of Invert Sugar #2) and hopped with Fuggle and East Kent Golding

Copestone - 2024 (14.5% abv) Port and bourbon barrel-aged barleywine

Corky (4.7% abv) English-style golden ale brewed with Fawcett malt (Low-Colour Maris Otter and Golden Promise) and hopped with a blend of UK and Northeast US-grown hops (including a half pound per barrel dry hop)

The Cottage (5.2% abv) German-style helles lager

Rove (5% abv) Farmhouse-style pale ale dry-hopped with Nelson Sauvin, Azalea, and Motueka

Upcoast (4.8% abv) West coast-style pilsner brewed with Maine-grown, floor-malted barley from Blue Ox Malthouse and heirloom dent corn, and dry-hopped with American-grown Citra and Krush and New Zealand-grown Manilita

Virid (7.2% abv) IPA featuring Nelson Sauvin from Freestyle Hops, New Zealand

Cheers! to Burton ale & Fawcett malt

*Note that draft list is tentative and subject to change

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WILLS Weekend @ Tørst
6/25 - 6/28

We’re so very honored to introduce Québec’s WILLS brewery to the city of New York!

Launched in 2023 from the Mile-Ex neighborhood of Montréal, WILLS has quickly honed their art of brewing & serving precisely-balanced, honest beer of delicious character. We hope you’ll join us in hosting some of the WILLS team on Thursday evening, June 25th, or in the days that follow as we pour a full lineup of WILLS beer:

WILLS PILS (5% abv) Unfiltered German-style pale lager brewed with Hallertau Mittelfrüh hops

PETITE ITALIE PILS (4.7% abv) Italian-style pilsner dry-hopped with Saphir

MILE-EX (5.2% abv) Pale ale hopped with Citra and Nelson Sauvin

DUO: CITRA/SUPERDELIC (5% abv) Pale ale hopped with Citra and Superdelic

GHOST FARM (6% abv) IPA hopped with Citra, Mosaic, and Simcoe

ELOÏSE (6% abv) IPA hopped with Mosaic and Motueka

MONTRÉAL ROCK CITY (7.6% abv) DIPA hopped with Nelson Sauvin, Peacharine, Riwaka, and Riwaka Hop Kief in collaboration with

RÉFRACTAIRES (10.5% abv) Imperial stout aged two years in Kentucky bourbon barrels

Santé! Bonne Saint-Jean!

Celebrating 13 Years of Tørst
this Sunday, May 17th

featuring a full line-up of gems from the great :

Amenable (4.2% abv) English-inspired bitter brewed with English malt, lightly-cooked invert sugar, and Challenger and Goldings hops; each can is dosed with nitrogen to emulate the creamy foam of a traditional Northern UK cask pour—we like it best from a stein! These special collab steins will be available from noon this Sunday the 17th! (Limit 2 pp; unfortunately we can’t accommodate special hold requests, nor can we ship. Hope to see you Sunday!)

Backroads (5.6% abv) Country beer made with sumac and tangerine marigold

Be Golden (4.2% abv) English-inspired bitter brewed with Maris Otter malt and pale invert sugar syrup; hopped with UK Fuggle, Kent Goldings, Styrian Celeia, and US Centennial; also canned with nitrogen

Bones Shirt (4.9% abv) German-style black lager

Crispy Little (4.8% abv) American pale ale brewed with malted wheat

Fine Line (4.5% abv) Hop-accented Kölsch-style ale

Hecto (4.6% abv) Pale ale dry-hopped with Citra

Kinda Classic (4.5% abv) Belgian-inspired ale fermented with a single strain of yeast and bottle-conditioned for spritzy carbonation

Palatine Pils (4.9% abv) The Suarez Family house pils

Poet’s Walk, 2020 - 2023 (10% abv) English-style barleywine brewed in late 2020 and lagered in stainless until spring of 2021, then bottle-aged for 5 years

Proclivity (5.4% abv) Country beer brewed with fresh pineapple sage from

Qualify Pils (5.2% abv) Hop-accented German-style pilsner made with Hallertau Mittelfruh and Hallertau Saaz

Saunter (3.8% abv) Dark mild ale inspired by those from the English West Midlands

Cheers! to nothing special, for every table

13 Years of Tørst

Mark your calendars for Sunday, May 17th, to join us for our 13th Anniversary Celebration with some very special bottles & kegs (plus maybe some special edition steins? Stay tuned for more details!)

But why limit the revelry to just one day? We’re tapping Anniversary-tier kegs the entire month of May, starting with these gems this weekend:

Qualify Pils by

Little Legend by

Single Tree: Hickory (2024) by

Cuvée Saint-Gilloise (2025) by

Keller Bear by &

Woods & Waters by

pFreal by &

Barmy by w/ malt

Self-Reliance: Czech Saaz by

The English & Scottish Popular Ballads (2024) by

Spanish Pipedream (20/22) by

Spring by

Quiet Fire by

Plum: Harvest 2021 by w/ .roots plums

Sive by w/

Sahti by

Tha Thrilla in Sarsaparilla (2019) by

Poterie (2016) by

Cheers! to 13 years

*Note that draft list is tentative & subject to change

The flavors of this year’s Zwanze beers are as much of the Jura region of France as they are of Brussels and that’s thanks to Florian, Paul, and Vincent of

Four years ago these fellas started making vermouth the traditional way using grapes of the Jura (Pinot Noir, Poulsard, Chardonnay) as a base and more than 70 different plants (mostly sourced from the Jura, of course) to bolster the intrinsic profiles of the grapes themselves into four different vermouth expressions, greater than the sum of their parts. Cantillon’s Jean Van Roy was so very impressed by these elixirs and of course saw blending potential with spontaneously-fermented brews and voila! the next experiment in this lauded Zwanze lineage took form!

After many tastes & many chats, the Sullivan boys made two different elixirs meant to blend well with Lambic and Kriek, respectively:

“Artémis La Blanche” is an elixir made from gentian, coriander, rhubarb root, juniper, sage, angelica, wormwood, and many other herbs, blended with Cantillon Lambic

“Artémis La Rouge” is an elixir made from verbena, marjoram, rose, apple, curry plant, wormwood, and many other herbs, blended with Cantillon Kriek

Pictures are from my visit to the Jura this past January: Florian w/ his vermouth at .levain , barrels of Bénédicte and Stéphane Tissot wine, made from the same grape varietals Sullivan uses for their vermouth, and a bottle of La Vie est Belge, lambic aged in Tissot vin jaune barrels

Note that only a few tickets to Zwanze are left! Get em now w/ the link in bio to taste these beautiful flavors of the Jura.

Santé! to Zwanze

-Sam

Zwanze 2026: Artémis @ Tørst featuring Brasserie Cantillon & Sullivan Vermouth

On Saturday, April 25th, we’re honored to offer you two delicious beverages by Brasserie Cantillon & Sullivan Vermouth as a part of this worldwide celebration of Lambic:

Artémis La Rouge: Cantillon Kriek w/ Sullivan elixir
Artémis La Blanche: Cantillon Lambic w/ Sullivan elixir

Visit the link in our bio for tickets to one of three convivial drinking sessions to join us on this special day of Zwanze; each ticket* entitles bearer to (1) five oz pour each of Artémis La Rouge & Artémis La Blanche and access to full food & beverage menus for purchase a la carte during the time designated. Extremely limited space for walk-ins so book now to ensure entry!

*first session tickets also include (1) short-stemmed commemorative glass

Additional Drafts:
Cuvée Saint-Gilloise
St. Lamvinus
St. Lamvinus (2024)
Vigneronne
Classic Gueuze

Some Fine Print:
21+
All ticket sales are final; no refunds for cancellations at any time.
1 outside bottle per person FIRST SESSION ONLY; unfortunately we can’t accommodate the sharing of bottles during the latter two sessions so please leave em behind! Anyone who violates this rule will be asked to leave without refund.
Menus subject to change but rest assured plenty of Cantillon lambic will be available from open to close!

Santé! to Zwanze

LoLa Weekend @ Tørst (4/9 - 4/12)

We’re excited to welcome Laura and Mark of Lower Lake Brewery in Hamilton, New York, back to their old Greenpoint stomping grounds on Thursday, April 9th, to kick off a full weekend with their deliciously sessionable lagers & ales @ Tørst

It’s rare for such a young brewery to come out of the gate with a complete lineup of nuanced, characterful beers, especially when those beers are some of the most difficult styles to brew well. Laura and Mark have done exactly that but the whole truth is that it was neither easy nor quick: Mark’s been brewing since 2013–around the same time the couple met—and one of he and Laura’s core values is time: give the lagers time, give the brand time, give the community time. They make decisions slowly and carefully and boy, you can taste it

Come and taste for yourself and chat up Laura & Mark about their big pandemic-era move upstate, their old world lager inspirations, their appreciation for what good art can do for good beer, etc., wherever the path might lead

Available on draft and in cans (to-go, if you’d like) for LoLa Weekend @ Tørst:

Charlie Boy (4.5% abv) German-style pilsner

The Phantom (5% abv) Schwarzbier

No Feet (5.2% abv) Märzenbier

Devil Log (4.8% abv) Smoked helles

The Creeps (4.8% abv) Comet and Chinook hopped pale ale

Theresa (5.2% abv) Pilsner made with spruce tips and New Zealand hops: Nelson Sauvin and Motueka

Bored to Death (6% abv) American-style porter

Jinxie (4% abv) Saison

Buckethead (4.8% abv) Simcoe and Centennial hopped pale ale

Cheers! to giving time