Make Tracks this Holiday Season…
While the Hope half of the Beer Gardens NYC team has been globetrotting and mountain climbing–and corn beer quaffing–the Raj half has been minding the NYC base camp–and making Tracks with a cool new app that is fast revolutionizing the digital photo sharing experience. Forget Snapfish, forget Flickr, these photo albums on the fly–tracks–bring mobile storytelling out of the static sphere and into the social network for a truly interactive experience.
Oh, and by the by, Tracks is currently offered for FREE. Quelle economy-conscious cyber stocking stuffer! 
A Top 10 Photo App in 82 countries and the USA, Tracks has garnered major press attention on the tech scene. But don’t take our word for it. Check out these latest press links.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/21/tracks-grabs-1-million-to-build-the-experience-graph-adds-photobucket-founder-to-its-board/http://www.businessinsider.com/tracks-raises-1-million-2011-12
http://vator.tv/news/2011-12-21-tracks-raises-1-million-in-seed-funding
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/21/businessinsidertracks-raises-1-mill.DTL
Happy Holidays,
Hope & Raj
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Hope in Deutschland
Beer Gardens NYC weighs in on the NYC beer and brats scene. Check us out.
Stille Nacht an Currywurst Mit Grunkohl
Hope & Raj
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Got Chicha!
Locals chill out with chicha. As you can see, it's exciting stuff.
Hola Beer Peeps:
The Hope half of the Beer Gardens NYC team is back from Peru, home of Inca archeological goodness–the Inca City of Machu Picchu celebrates the 100th anniversary of its rediscovery this 2011 year–great hiking, and yes, beer!
Chicha, Peruvian corn beer, has a fascinating history that lives on in the local chicherias found in nearly every Andean town.
Bar Central?
To learn more about chicha, sapo, and other fun deets on my Peruvian pub stop, check out my guest blog today at the uber cool BooksAndBrews.
Holidays are hectic. C’mon over and have a beer with me.
Happy Holidays–and Happy Trails,
Hope & Raj
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Belated Happy Samhain
Raj & Hope put on the Ritz at this year's Dances of Vice "Beyond the Veil" Murder Mystery Ball. Riverside Church, Manhattan NY.
We hope you had a very happy Halloween/Samhain–we most definitely did!
Beer garden season is (sadly) coming to a close in most parts of the country but here at Beer Gardens NYC we prefer to think of it not as an ending but as a hibernation, a well-deserved nap.
For tips on beer gardening in colder temps, check out our article in The Huffington Post.
Happy All Saints Day,
Hope & Raj
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Tagged All Saints Day, Andrew Shaffer, Dances of Vice, Halloween, Huffington Post, Riverside Church, Samhain, Shien Lee
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Globally Yours, Part II
What’s better than having users of our app in a dozen counties in addition to the U.S?
Having them in nearly 20!
To date, Beer Gardens NYC has been downloaded by beer garden enthusiasts in Germany, Canada, the U.K., Japan, The Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Austria, Australia, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Mexico, Denmark, Ireland, India & Panama.
In New York City Landia, we’re keeping the Oktoberfest party going strong with the updated version of our app. Version 2.1 features 63 beer gardens collectively serving more than 1,000 beers.
That’s a lot of beer.
Even better, many of the venues are offering food and beer specials for Oktoberfest. Check out the app and then head out to enjoy these great beer gardens while the fall weather holds.
Prost!
Hope & Raj
Happy Oktoberfest!
Raj & Hope get the Oktoberfest party started. Stone Street Oyster Festival 2011.
Oktoberfest’s official beginning, Friday, September 16th, happily coincided with the arrival of fall weather to New York City, and the Raj-meister and I have been taking full advantage of both.
Saturday in NYC saw both The Steuben Day Parade and the Stone Street Oyster Festival, two events we make it a point not to miss.
NYC’s Fourth Annual Craft Beer Week is ongoing and, there are plenty of other great events leading us into October. Check out our Oktoberfest NYC website for a list of events as well as a brief history of this oh so fun fall holiday.
The 63 beer gardens in the 2.1 version of our Beer Gardens NYC app have lots going on, too. Check out their websites (included in the app’s venue information for each beer garden) or call to find out what Oktoberfest goodness they have planned between now and next month.
Happy Oktoberfest!
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Show me the (CNN) Money!
Got Facialytics?
What’s that?
Short answer: it has to do with technological advancements in facial recognition software, one of the many bold, new frontiers investigated at this summer’s Photo Hack Day in NYC held by Aviary.
CNN’s Laurie Segall covered the story and our Beer Gardens NYC bro, Raj, who by day works as Marketing Manager for Tracks, a hot new NYC tech start-up, was there to wax way smart on the topic.
“When there’s this new technology, people want to use it — especially developers who like to try the latest things,” Raj Moorjani , the marketing manager for photo-sharing app Tracks, said at Photo Hack Day. “People are trying to experiment with it and see how people react.”
After the event, of course, he went out for a beer. 
Hope
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How does your beer garden grow?
First off, Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Here in Beer Gardens NYC Landia, we’re busy celebrating both the holiday and the release of the app’s 2.1 version: 63 beer gardens, more than 1,000 beers, and countless hours of “research” logged in.
The new version of the app has 11 “Top Picks” as well as nine new beer gardens. Congratulations to Harlem Tavern, Spritzenhaus, Lot on Tap and several others, all of which opened this summer. Also, kudos to Battery Park, which relaunched this Memorial Day with expanded draft and food menus and a family-friendly focus e.g., they have milkshakes!
Stay tuned for more beer gardening goodness as we welcome fall and our very favorite holiday, Oktoberfest.
Raj & Hope
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Wassup with Us?
Last night Raj and I hit “Send” on the latest version of the app!
Beer Gardens NYC Version 2.1 will be available in time to celebrate summer’s last hurrah, the Labor Day weekend.
2.1 retains all the previous cool features e.g., Foursquare, GPS functionality while adding a whopping nine new city beer gardens to the guide list.
Yes, nine. Since April ’11. That brings the total of NYC beer gardens covered in the app to a whopping 63.
In a word, w-o-w.
And the number of beers is now more than 1,000.
In a word, a-l-o-t (of beer).
Already have the app? Great! Once the new version goes live on Ye Ole App store, you’ll get an automatic ping to download it at no additional cost.
In a word, f-r-e-e.
That’s how we roll.
Let the good times roll…
Hope & Raj
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