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LOST FARMER BREWING CO.
MINEOLA’S NEW BREWS
BY BERNIE KILKELLY
Beer drinkers have been enjoying craft
brews in central Nassau County since
Lost Farmer Brewing Company’s May 1
opening in Mineola.
Co-founders Domenick Petralia and John
Strom are childhood friends from Garden
City. They began construction on the
2nd street location in 2020, with much
of the work done by Strom and the crew
from his firm, Strom Home Remodeling.
“We developed a passion for craft beer
over the years and decided to take the
next step,” Petralia says.
Their beers at Lost Farmer will use
local and exotic ingredients to produce
high-quality brews.
“Our name pays tribute to the small,
unknown lost generations of farmers
and farms across New York State who
grow the ingredients we use,” Petralia
says. “It also refers to the location and
our ‘Get Lost’ atmosphere and
retro environment in an utterly
booming area.”
It’s a Craft Malt Certified brewery,
commited to using malt from local
providers.
“We get the majority of our malts
from Hudson Valley Malt, an artisan
craft malthouse in Germantown,
New York,” Petralia says.
Lost Farmer’s 2,200-square-foot
space features a taproom overlooking
its custom-designed 7-barrel
brewhouse with 9 fermenting
tanks. The taproom’s garage door
opens onto a courtyard with wooden picnic
benches and decadent wooden wine
barrels. The retro atmosphere has TVs
playing MTV music videos from the 1980s
and 1990s, along with free PAC-MAN and
Donkey Kong games for patrons.
Beers on tap include Juicy IPA, a hazy New
England-style IPA, and a wide variety of
other beer styles. Customers can enjoy
flights and take away beers in 32-ounce
crowlers and 64-ounce growlers.
The brewery plans to to start a barrel
aged beer program to make barrel
aged sours, gose and stouts using 20
barrels from Lamoreaux Landing Wine
Cellars in the Finger Lakes.
Taproom snacks include locally
handmade focaccia bread and
hot Bavarian pretzels. Biscuits &
Barbecue, a standout for Cajun
and Creole food located a block
away, will offer a special menu
for Lost Brewing patrons on Tuesdays
to Thursdays; there will be
food trucks and occasional live
music on weekends. The taproom
is dog friendly and kid friendly,
and Sunday is family day, with an
occasional Mister Softee ice cream
truck appearance.
Lost Farmer plans to self-distribute
to local bars, restaurants and beer
stores, so craft beer lovers won’t
have to get lost to find delicious fresh
craft beer.
Lost Farmer Brewing Co. is located at
63-A 2nd St. in Mineola. For more info
visit lostfarmerbrewing.com.
Bernie Kilkelly is the editor and publisher
of LIBeerGuide.com.
The new brewery touts a retro theme.
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