Great South Bay’s Greatest Season of the Year
Great South Bay Brewery has a lot to celebrate this season: their five year anniversary, wining two gold medals at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF), and closing out the Oktoberfest season with punk music and brews at their annual Punktoberfest. Each year, local punk bands and micro breweries (with their unique combination of brews) participate in this festival. While the breweries continue to present the beers that have...
Exclusive: U.S. probes allegations AB InBev seeking to curb craft beer distribution
Reuters (Written by: Diane Bartz) – The U.S. Justice Department is probing allegations that Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI.BR) is seeking to curb competition in the beer market by buying distributors, making it harder for fast-growing craft brewers to get their products on store shelves, according to three people familiar with the matter. In the past few months, the world’s largest brewer has rattled the craft beer world by...
News on Tap – September 25, 2015
It’s easy to let time pass by when you’re schlepping to your job that you love too much, but then Friday comes and you grab that ice cold beer (or in my case, cider), and everything is forgotten. All of the times you got pinged at work, the nagging supervisors, and dumb coworkers who you don’t even know how they even got hired. Maybe you’re heading home by train, bus, subway…or maybe you’re stuck in traffic (hopefully not texting and...
Craft Beer Cellar Opens on Long Island
This past weekend, I attended the grand opening for Craft Beer Cellar (CBC), a craft beer bottle shop focused on supporting local breweries, in addition to beers imported on a national and international level. CBC, which officially opened in Port Washington two weeks ago, the first of the franchise on Long Island. I met with owners and Port Washington residents Erin and Trish Molyneux, who gave me a tour of the shop, which included...
Long Ireland’s Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day Party
Hundreds of Long Islanders gathered (and staggered) at the fifth annual Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day Party at Long Ireland Beer Co. in Riverhead this past Saturday. To commemorate the half-way mark to St. Patrick’s Day, Long Ireland served 12 beers on tap accompanied by live music by Miles to Dayton and Long Ireland Pipes & Drums. I couldn’t miss a second opportunity to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! ...
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