Rocky Point Artisan Brewers

And I’m back! Wednesday I got a box back from the printer. The box contained the first print run of my magazine, The Angler. It’s a magazine for “drinkers, thinkers, and idlers.” If any of those descriptors fits you, then you may want to take a look. There’s also a […]

Mike Voigt and I brewed up three batches of beer over the weekend. All batches were made with a common mash (meaning all the grain was mashed in the same vessel). We ran off about 10 gallons for the B.E.E.R. club Oktoberfest coming up in early September. It’s a stronger Altbier, what’s […]

Mike and I have finally started the ball rolling on launching our own nanobrewery, what we are presently calling Rocky Point Artisan Brewers. Our plan is to make top quality beer in small batches for a few taprooms on Long Island. Since we will be doing production and distribution ourselves, we won’t be […]

Yesterday I produced a podcast (episode 120, “small is beautiful“) in which I continued making my case for why beer enthusiasts should start to support local breweries. The assumption is that the local beer is good and that it is something that they want to drink. The difficulty in arguing the “buy local” […]

Those of us at the B.E.E.R. meeting on Monday were treated to Keegan ales on tap at the Brickhouse. Both Mother’s Milk Stout and a wit were being poured. My understanding was that the Keegan taps were only pouring upstairs, but there’s no harm in asking if you are downstairs.
The wit (I thought) […]

Living on the North Shore is a blessing and a curse. The curse part is that I’m about a half hour drive from the South Shore. Now that I think about it, just about everything on Long Island is at least a half hour from my house. (There’s probably some weird temporal […]

Late Friday night I was chatting with a guy. We were both having a couple of pints and enjoying the cool evening air and some live music.
“Hey, I’ve been reading your book,” he says.
“Really? Great.”
“It’s pretty good,” he says.
“Thanks.”
“Doesn’t your liver ever wave the white flag?” he asks. “You must drink a […]

This summer I’m doing my bit to cut down on the amount of non-renewable fossil fuel I consume. Two days a week I’m not driving my car. On those days, if I have errands to run, I’ll just walk up to the downtown area.
Yesterday, I took my wife’s bike to a local repair […]

In 2007 I started writing a book called Mixing It Up about the art of blending beer based cocktails. I set the project aside shortly after Rich and I got busy with launching the Long Island Beer & Malt Enthusiasts and so I could focus my energy on finishing The Beer Hall Guide to […]

Last Saturday, I went to the North Fork Craft Beer Festival to give away some beer and to try to sell copies of The Beer Hall Guide to Long Island.
At one point DJ Swanson, former brewmaster at John Harvard’s Brew House in Lake Grove, stopped by to chat. DJ is now the distillery manager […]