Fans of the feather flock together at one Brooklyn brew pub.
Fans of a feather flock together at Randolph Beer in DUMBO.
Randolph Beer owner Dave Plate only learned about the very old sport, said to have originated in Belgium, from“We went on total faith,” Plate told The Post aboutDescribed as “a combination of curling, shuffleboard, bocce, and bowling” by the Randolph’s assistant general manager and de facto feather bowling commissioner Sarah Duval, the bar’sNow, according to Plate, the bar’s feather bowling courts are consistently booked solid through almost every weekend, at the rate of $25 for half an hour...
“Legend has it that many, many years ago on the fields of Belgium, farmers would get bored,” Plate, who opened his watering hole and game room back in May 2022, told The Post. “So they would grab wheels of cheese and they would bowl them down fields towards pigeon feathers — playing a game of who could get closest to the feather.”
“These courts are about 70% do-it-yourself, you can’t get this stuff prepacked on Amazon,” the owner joked. It’s best to feel the puck gently roll off your fingers as that’s most important to controlling speed and guided movement down the turf.Reporter Alex Mitchell scores his first-ever feather bowling point by landing closest to the pin.The team in the top of the inning gets the benefit of not just rolling close to the feather first but is also awarded the chance to “barricade” that close shot by clogging up the main court with other pucks.
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