FINANCIAL DISTRICT — Downtown beer connoisseurs, you're in luck — three Lower Manhattan bars have the biggest variety of brews in the city, a new study found.
Financial District bars Fraunces Tavern and Barleycorn, along with TriBeCa's Church Publick ranked among the top 10 citywide for bars with the most diverse offerings when it comes to brews, according to an analysis from DataScope.
Historic Pearl Street bar Fraunces Tavern ranked third in the city for the number of styles of beer it pours: 56. Barleycorn, which sits near City Hall, at 23 Park Place, took sixth place with 51 varieties of suds, and Church Publick came in 10th, with 42 brew styles.
DataScope, an analytics company, surveyed the menus of pubs, bars, restaurants and breweries citywide that had their brews listed on Beermenus.com in December — about 270 locations.
Barleycorn managed to show up on all three of the beer ranking lists. With 186 different beers on its menu, the bar ranked sixth in the city for the biggest selection of brews.
The bar also ranked seventh for its selections of rare beers with 34 rare brews. Fraunces Tavern made it onto that list as well, taking ninth place with 27 rare beers, defined as "ones that are only found at one bar in the entire city," according to DataScope.
The Financial District in general also made it to one more ranking — a list of neighborhoods with the most expensive beers. According to DataScope, the median price for beer in the city is $7, but in FiDi, it's $8.
