Rocky Point Artisan Brewers

I turned out to the Long Island Brewers Dinner last night. I and about twenty others were treated to a surfeit of food and drink. The food was great and the beer was decent. My favorite was the Double Cream Ale from the Brickhouse.
It’s American Craft Beer Week and I was a […]

Breweries are expensive to build, so if you want to brew a beer and sell it, the easiest way is to hire out the brewing of the beer and concentrate on selling it once it’s in the bottle and/or keg. That’s just what Dudley Cates Jr has done with Crop Circle Beer.
I caught up […]

72011 Holly Street
Abita Springs, LA 70420
Tuesday - Sunday; 11am - 10pm
(closed on Mondays)
985-892-5837
The site of the original Abita Brewery has been turned into a brew pub. Not only do that have a nearly complete line-up of Abita brews on tap, they have guest taps as well.
You’ll definitely want to plan to eat at the […]

Things have changed at the Abita Brewing Company in the last twelve or thirteen years since my last visit. New owners. New brewing system. New tasting room/visitor center. New beer?
The most noticeable change when you drive up are the new buildings. They’ve built this swank and spacious “visitor center” which […]

After visiting the Blue Point tasting room I went to Once & For All in downtown Patchogue. On cask that night was the Rye IPA from Blue Point. David says that the Pale Ale will be coming back soon. He also has started his bottle selection. I counted three: two 750 ml bottles from […]

Yesterday I reviewed Blue Point’s Double Bonde. The next beer I sampled at the Blue Point tasting room was the cask conditioned version of what they call Spring Fling. My guess is that this beer is a Pale Ale. It’s 5.5% abv with 40 IBU (which is a lot of bitterness for […]

It’s been a while since I went to the tasting room at Blue Point’s brewery in Patchogue, so I cleared the schedule and dropped by for a stealth tasting so I could review some of the items that aren’t on the standard list of beers.
The first beer I tried was called Double Blonde. When […]

Blue Point’s brewing facility in Patchogue is where they brew the beer that is put into kegs for distribution to restaurants and taprooms all over Long Island and in New York City. Their bottled beers are brewed and bottled at Clipper City Brewing Company in Baltimore, except for the Blueberry Ale which is contract brewed […]

Mark Tuchman took over Big Z Beverage in Huntington in 2007. He cleaned up the place and turned it into a craft beer focused beer store. Mark has been very active with the local homebrew club and the craft beer enthusiast club, not only seeking their advice, but actually going out of his […]

Located in the heart of Huntington Village just north of 25A on New York Ave (110), this classic, cozy English-style pub is one of my favorite destinations. They have sixteen beer on draft and a bottle selection that is somewhere approaching the fifties. The beer on tap is pretty stable and has a […]