Tag: Beer

Two Long Island craft breweries took home virtual medals Thursday at the 4th annual New York State Craft Beer Competition, a hotly contested affair with nearly 1,000 beers in 12 categories, that was hosted on Zoom and live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube.

Long Island’s Big Brew Day activities will be a part of a worldwide event as the AHA has pushed to make this year’s event the largest homebrew event ever.

Nine breweries on Long Island opened new taprooms in 2019 and more expansion is coming this year, both from new breweries opening taprooms for the first time and older breweries setting up new locations.  

Oceanside’s Barrier Brewing Co. took home the prize for Best Brew of New York State.

The craft beer industry continued to expand across Long Island in 2018, with six new breweries opening taprooms, bringing the total number of brewpubs and breweries with taprooms to 35, compared to just nine at the end of 2012.  

Since New York State created a farm brewery license in 2012, the number of craft breweries on LI more than tripled from 12 to 44 today — 26 of which are farm breweries that use locally grown ingredients.

One of Long Island’s newest craft breweries, the nautical-themed Small Craft Brewing in Amityville, opened its tasting room for the first time to the public over the weekend.

The A List: Before you say cheers, make sure your glass is full of one of Long Islands many hometown brews.

Since 2011, another proud European heritage of entertainment, called ‘craic’— pronounced “crack,” it means fun in Gaelic — has been celebrated in Polish Town at the Long Ireland Beer Company brewery and tasting room.

In some households and bars across Long Island, every day feels like Long Island Craft Beer Week. But the official nine-day celebration of one...