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The A LIST:
LI craft beers to drink for
St. Patrick’s Day Beer Style Brewery Brewer’s Notes
1 Arrowhead Red Ale Irish Red Ale Montauk
Brewing Co.
With a strong malt backbone, sweet caramel finish and low bitterness, this beer has
slight fruitiness and hints of roasted barley that make it great for the transition from
winter to spring.
Stout Irish Stout Blue Point
2 Armchair Nitro
Brewing
A craft spin on an Irish Stout with a luscious, roasty character derived from four
different dark malts. English and American hops are balanced out with nitrogenation,
making for a creamy delight.
Stout Irish Stout Oyster Bay
3 Baymen’s Oyster
Brewing
In both name and flavor, this beer is an ode to the baymen that harvest Oyster Bay’s
eponymous shellfish from the waters a stone’s throw from this brewery.
4 Bootlegger Irish Stout Shelter Island
Craft Brewery
This homage to Bootlegger Beach in Shelter Island packs a speakeasy-sized bourbon-y
taste.
5 Boris the Spider Imperial Stout Spider Bite
Brewing
Eight different malts bring a complex aroma and flavor of chocolate, coffee and roasty
sweetness.
6 BrickHouse Red Irish Red Ale BrickHouse
Brewery Full bodied yet easily drinkable. Voted best Red on Long Island.
7 Celtic Ale Irish Red Ale Long Ireland
Beer Co.
Brewed with four different malts, flaked oats, and honey, it has a smooth dry finish with
a low bitterness from Willamette hops.
Stout Oatmeal Stout Barnshed
8 Chocolate Oats
Brewing This delicious, silky smooth limited offering is one we hope will stick around.
9 Everyman’s Porter Porter Moustache
Brewing
Lots of roasted coffee arise in the aroma that carry to the flavor. Dark, bittersweet
chocolate flavors appear as the beer warms. Smooth, clean finish makes it great for
knocking back a few pints.
10 La Leche De Madre Milk Stout Jamesport
Farm Brewery
Like cream in your coffee, this Milk Stout has a delicious creamy full-bodied
smoothness.
11 Lithology Red Ale Irish Red Ale Lithology
Brewing
The Red Ale won a Gold Medal and Best Red Ale from the New York International
Beer Competition in 2017.
12 Longest Night Oatmeal Stout
Greenport
Harbor
Brewing Co.
This oatmeal stout leads with roasty chocolatey goodness. Hints of cinnamon and
orange peel makes this story complete.
13 Long Ireland
Chocolate Porter Porter Long Ireland A malty brown, dark chocolatey, and coffee-flavored porter is the first of its kind for
Long Ireland.
14 McLaughlin’s Folly Oatmeal Stout Barrage
Brewing Co.
Brewed with Fuggle and Kent Goldings hops, this Irish-surnamed stout is flavored
with vanilla and raisin.
15 Oh Shuck My Stout Oyster Stout Po’Boy
Brewery
Full-bodied stout made with locally sourced Long Island oysters. It has a mild
brininess and a smokey, toasty malt with notes of dark chocolate and coffee.
16 Paddle Bender Porter Garvies Point
Brewery
A robust Imperial Porter that delivers huge notes of chocolate and roast with a thick
yet silky mouth feel. Aged on loads of vanilla beans for a rich flavor that accentuates
the dark malt character, this beer is pushed to its limits with 8 different kinds of malts.
17 Ribbit Red Ale Red Pale Ale Tweaking Frog
Brewing
A deep red malty ale brewed with Simcoe, Columbus, Willamette and Cascade hops.
It has notes of caramel, banana nut bread & nutmeg. Full on creamy mouthfeel.
18 Scorn & Avarice Oatmeal Stout Brewers
Collective
Flaked rice and corn – along with Pilsner and Vienna malts – provide a light body and
round finish.
19 Starboard Stout Oatmeal Stout Port Jeff
Brewing
This winter seasonal beer is brewed with rolled oats, raisins and brown sugar; rich
roasted malt character.
20 Toasted Amber Ale Irish Red Ale BrewSA
Brewing Very balanced and drinkable beer that focuses on the toasted malt profile.
– Compiled by Bernie Kilkelly and Stephanie Perrone