![]() Oyster Bay Brewing Co., Oyster Bay (April 2018) Old Tappan Brewing Co., Bayville (July 2020) Noble Savage Brewing Co., Glen Cove (Dec. Motion Craft Brewed, Massapequa Park (March 2020) Moriches Field Brewing, Center Moriches (Nov. Long Island Farm Brewery, Manorville (July 2021) Long Ireland Beer Co., Riverhead (March 2018) Long Beach Brewing Company, Oceanside (June 2022) Lithology Brewing Co., Farmingdale (Sept. Jones Beach Brewing Co., Farmingdale (April 2022) Great South Bay Brewery, Bay Shore (July 2019) Garvies Point Craft Brewery, Glen Cove (Sept. (DUBCO), Bay Shore (July 2022)įreedom Brewing Corp., Holbrook (Jan. 2019)īright Eye Beer Co., Long Beach (Feb. 2019)īlue Point Brewing, Patchogue (April 2021)īrewers Collective Beer Co., Bay Shore (Dec. LIBeerGuide publisher Bernard (Bernie) Kilkelly has profiled over 45 of these breweries as a regular contributor to the Long Island Press. Below are links to the profiles - enjoy!Ģ7A Brewing Company, Lindenhurst (March 2021)īlind Bat Brewery, Centerport (Nov. Today, there are more than 60 craft breweries stretching from Glen Gove and Long Beach to Greenport and Montauk. Just a little over 20 years ago, Long Island was home to one craft brewery and four brewpubs. ROUND 1 WINNER: Oceanside Ale Works Brewingĭid I miss an excellent brewery patio? Please send a message to on Facebook or Instagram, or e-mail me at. They have more seating without the busy roadside noise than South O, giving them the victory by the slimmest of margins. If you hang out at the bar, it feels like a place where you’ll inevitably leave with a story to tell. I hear peels of laughter from the bar, and I wonder what joke was told. From my seat, I can look inside the brewery. ![]() A few other customers tell stories and laugh about co-workers. It feels like a brewery parking lot, albeit quieter back here than the roadside. It is sparsely decorated with a half dozen or so blue plastic lounge chairs - the kind you find stacked in front of Rite-Aid or Walmart at the beginning of the summer - circling oversized wooden cable spools. A cooler and some wooden barrels form a de facto wall on one side, a chain link fence runs along the back, and the remaining space is closed off from the parking lot by temporary fencing. The patio is out back through a rolled-up garage door. ![]() Photo by Ryan Woldt The outdoor patio at Oceanside Ale Works. The outdoor patio at Oceanside Ale Works. His fedora and linen shirt imply a Cuban sound, but the notes are all Steely Dan. Less fitting but seemingly perfect is the gentleman keyboardist jamming away. The beer comes in a plastic cup, which is one of my few complaints, but I get that it fits the brewery’s vibe. The bartender gives me a heads-up that it has a unique taste. I confirm my dog’s welcome status, order a session ale, and put my cash on the bar (cash only at OAW). Oceanside Ale Works was indefinitely closed when I started writing the Cheers! column and the pandemic has kept me from random explorations until recently. I’m not sure what I expect inside when I roll up to a fairly boring-looking industrial park building, but a hipster-friendly motorcycle dive brewery and a great big smile from a long-haired, bushy-beared bartender isn’t it. An old Singer sewing machine inside the door seems to question my choice to wear flip-flops into such an establishment. I’m warned that I’m entering a manufacturing facility as I enter Oceanside Ale Works. They do everything right, but the size of the space is the one thing they can’t change. Takeaway: It is hard to base a score solely on the patio at South O due to its size and integration with the inside.
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