This week on Beer Sessions Radio™ on The Heritage Radio Network, we’re taking a bit of a vacation! No, we didn’t take the week off, but in this pre-taped episode, host Jimmy Carbone heads out to Long Island (at least spiritually) and welcomes three breweries and a co-host in the form of one Niko Krommydas. And since your itinerant blogger is in San Diego this week checking out the west coast scene (let’s just say: hops, hops and more hops!), we’re gonna let Niko do the blogging this week. You can listen to the full episode here.
Take it away, Niko! (Original post.)
Good Morning, Aquebogue! I was asked to organize a Long Island-themed episode of Heritage Radio Network’s weekly program, Beer Sessions Radio, which we pre-recorded during the last week of July. It airs today at 5 pm.
The host of Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone (also owner of Jimmy’s No. 43 in Manhattan), proposed gathering three breweries as guests for the show, so I chose to feature a thriving trio on the North Fork: Greenport Harbor Brewing Company, Long Ireland Beer Company, and Moustache Brewing Company. While Blue Point Brewing Company still defines beermaking on Long Island, Greenport Harbor and Long Ireland are both prompting drinkers, by portfolio dopeness and continued growth, to travel east of the vaunted progenitor in Patchogue—to Greenport and Riverhead, respectively. This has helped establish a noteworthy scene on the 30-mile-long peninsula, one that, in my opinion, now deservedly includes Moustache in Riverhead.
Beer Sessions traditionally broadcasts live every Tuesday from Roberta’s in Brooklyn, but we recorded this episode at Greenport Harbor’s impressive and just-opened 13,000-square-foot facility in Peconic, which is highlighted by a 30-barrel brewhouse and 2,000-square-foot taproom (its original brewery and taproom, in Greenport, remains operational). We also drank—specifically Greenport Harbor’s #5, an anniversary-themed Belgian-style dubbel aged with tart cherries; Long Ireland’s newest release, Trinity IPA; and Moustache’s flagship, Everyman’s Porter.
This is my ninth appearance on Beer Sessions. My last, on July 8, was to promote Niko Weisse, my Greek-themed (and universally acclaimed) collaboration with Great South Bay Brewery.