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Creation: Eight Legged RyePA

Creator: Spider Bite Beer Company

Date of Birth: 04/25/12

Description: Eight Legged RyePA is an American-style IPA, but we left out the crystal malts and replaced it with 30% rye malt. This lightens the overall appearance and body while giving a touch of rye spice to the finish. Packed with hops you will immediately notice the grapefruit and citrus aromas and flavors. 7.00% ABV and 55 IBU.

Purchase Location: Lake Ronkonoma Beverage

Super Neat Three-Word Feelings: Citrus. Grainspice. Fressshh.

Blue Point Brewing Company, established by Mark Burford and Pete Cotter in 1998, has packaged and released Toasted Lager, its 5.50% ABV, copper-hued flagship, and Summer Ale, in cans.

Based in Patchogue, Blue Point Brewing Company is the first brewery on Long Island to can-package beer.

“As the old dogs in this race, it’s cool to be able to keep pushing the craft revolution forward,” said Mark Burford, brewmaster. “Everyone deserves to have craft beer available to them all over the Island. Now we don’t have to sneak bottles anywhere.”

Description of Toasted Lager:

The best thing to come out of a brick oven since pizza. Well, we’ve upgraded from our original direct-fire brick kettle, but our flagship Toasted Lager still has the same toasted flavor it was named for. Copper in color, our most popular and unique brew is made from six different malts, including English Pale, Crystal, Munich, Carapils, Wheat, and Belgian Caravienna. Toasted Lager’s balanced flavor of malt and hops makes for easy drinking and the special lager yeast we use produces an exceptional, long-lasting smooth finish.

Description of Summer Ale:

There is a cure for Summertime Blues and the prescription is simple: 1 six-pack of Blue Point Brewing Company’s Summer Ale. Adult dosage: 12-oz servings as needed until mood improves. The delicious golden taste of Summer Ale comes from a substantial portion of wheat malt added to a traditional barley malt mix which gives this delicious brew a unique tartness not found in many beers today. No surprise – this light, thirst-quenching brew is best enjoyed on hot Summer days.

White IPA, a 6.00% ABV amalgam of witbier and IPA, is scheduled as Blue Point Brewing Company’s next canned beer.

No release date is available.

Great South Bay Brewery
2309 Union Boulevard
Bay Shore, NY 11706
(631) 392 - 8472
greatsouthbaybrewery.com

Great South Bay Brewery bottle-releases Sea Biscuit Hefeweizen, the ninth beer from the Bay Shore-based brewery’s Tasting Room Exclusive Brew Series, on May 03 (3:00PM).

According to Phil Ebel, director of sales and operations, “approximately 330 bottles were produced.”

Description of Sea Biscuit Hefeweizen:

While Germany is 4000 miles across the Atlantic, you can get a little taste of it here on the Great South Bay with Sea Biscuit Hefeweizen. Following old Bavarian standards dating back to the Middle Ages, Sea Biscuit was designed and brewed as an authentic German Weissbier. Choice German wheat and barley were selected and combined with Hallertau Mittelfruh hops and fermented using a traditional German Hefeweizen yeast which produces the genuine characteristics of this beer. Clean malty sweetness balanced with mild hops, Sea Biscuit finishes with subtle notes of vanilla, clove and banana. This beer’s thick, foamy head pours beautifully over the crown of your glass bringing you back to the olden days when real beer was just beer and the wiser men drank weizen…Prost!

Style: Hefeweizen
Color: 2.3 SRM
Alcohol by Volume: 4.90%
Bitterness: 12 IBU
Grains: Malted Wheat, German Pilsner Malt
Hops: Hallertau Mittelfruh

Sea Biscuit Hefeweizen is Great South Bay Brewery’s sixth bottle production. Kölsch, a 4.70% ABV kölsch, was released on April 26.

Tasting Room Exclusive Brew Series

Goofy Foot Milk Stout :: February 02
Snozberry Stout :: February 09
Chipotle Porter :: March 01
Sandpiper Irish Ale :: March 08
Bier Mussels Belgian IPA :: March 15
Robert Moses Blood Orange Pale Ale :: April 05
Wheatamelon Watermelon Wheat :: April 19
Kölsch :: April 26
Sea Biscuit Hefeweizen :: May 03

Spider Bite Beer Company, established in October 2011 by Larry Goldstein and Anthony LiCausi, was the recipient of the 2012 F.X. Matt Memorial Cup, which recognizes “the Best Craft Beer Brewery in New York State,” at TAP New York. Paul Kretzer, assistant brewer, accepted the award for Spider Bite Beer Company, which poured four beers at the two-day, New York-centric festival: Boris The Spider, First Bite Pale Ale, Robert’s Spider Wee Heavy, and Eight Legged RyePA. The latter, released on April 25, is a 7.00% ABV IPA brewed with 30% rye malt.

Hosted at Hunter Mountain on April 28-29, TAP New York featured 70+ New York breweries, including seven from Long Island: Barrier Brewing Company, Blue Point Brewing Company, Great South Bay Brewery, Greenport Harbor Brewing Company*, Long Ireland Beer Company, Port Jeff Brewing Company, and Spider Bite Beer Company.

*Greenport Harbor Brewing Company released Big TIPA, an earth-grass, German-influenced IPA (the T in TIPA is Teutonic, referring to the Teutons, a Germanic tribe) brewed with Tettnang and Hallertau Mittelfrau hops, for TAP New York. The 9.00% ABV IPA is a one-off release.

Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza
8063 Jericho Turnpike
Woodbury, NY 11797
(516) 367-2625
anthonyscoalfiredpizza.com

Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza hosts four courses with Blue Point Brewing Company on April 30 (7:00PM).

First Course
Classic Italian Salad
:: Rastafarye Ale ::

Second Course
Coal Oven Roasted Chicken Wings & Meatballs w/Fresh Ricotta Cheese
:: Toasted Lager ::

Third Course
Pork Ribs w/Vinegar Peppers
:: Hoptical Illusion ::

Fourth Course
Paul & Young Ron, Roasted Cauliflower, Eggplant Marino “Well Done” Pizzas
:: Spring Fling ::

$30.