Tweaking Frog Brewing Co. Celebrates Commercial Launch
Jul05

Tweaking Frog Brewing Co. Celebrates Commercial Launch

Exciting news for Tweaking Frog Brewing Co. this week! The brewery, which has been open since April 1, is celebrating their commercial launch this Saturday July 9 at Bellport Beer in Soda from 2-6pm. Guests will have the opportunity to taste and purchase Ribbit Red Ale, Raging Pollywog IPA, Twerking Blonde Ale and our brand new Metamorphosis IPA Series – Release 01. I caught up with Joseph Curley, founder & owner of Tweaking...

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Long Island Craft Beer Week Starts Today
May13

Long Island Craft Beer Week Starts Today

Today marks the first day of Long Island Craft Beer Week (LICBW), ten days celebrating the businesses in the growing craft beer community on Long Island, while supporting Long Island Cares, a non-profit that fights hunger in Nassau and Suffolk county. To raise awareness for Long Island Cares, 11 Long Island breweries collaborated to brew this year’s limited-release Craft Cares beer, a 7% ABV Vermont-style IPA. By donating two cans of...

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Lithology Shifts to New Home
Mar09

Lithology Shifts to New Home

  Lithology Brewing Company announced the opening of their new own tasting room and brewery at 211 Main Street in Farmingdale (formerly A Taste of Long Island). The brewery, which has been open since 2013 and legally owned since April 2015, originally shared space at ATOLI with other local brewers in an alternating proprietorship. Moving forward, owners Kevin, Lee, Marc, and Manny plan on renovating the tasting room with a bar,...

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Tørst Named Best American Beer Bar in New York
Feb25

Tørst Named Best American Beer Bar in New York

CraftBeer.com recently announced the results of the 2016 “Great American Beer Bars.” A special congratulations to Tørst in Brooklyn to being listed as one of the 51 best beer bars in the country. Tørst was founded in 2013 by Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, Denmark’s Evil Twin brewer, and Daniel Burnswho of Noma and Momofuku Labs. The Brooklyn bar currently has over 200 bottles and cans, and 21 beers on tap (draft list).  According...

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News on Tap – January 22, 2016
Jan22

News on Tap – January 22, 2016

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...

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Traveling Down to Hood’s Up Brewery
Nov10

Traveling Down to Hood’s Up Brewery

Although my favorite season has officially begun, I can’t help to miss summer: the beaches, barbeques, and light summer beers. I decided to take a mental vacation down to sunny Florida to visit Hood’s Up Brewery, which has been on my list of breweries to visit for some time. Founded by brewer Tim Goodman, who has been brewing since the 1990s, the soon to be Downtown Sanford brewery specializes in sours, saisons, barrel aged beers...

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Exclusive: U.S. probes allegations AB InBev seeking to curb craft beer distribution
Oct13

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...

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News on Tap – September 25, 2015
Sep25

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...

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Craft Beer Cellar Opens on Long Island
Sep24

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...

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News on Tap – September 11, 2015
Sep11

News on Tap – September 11, 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...

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