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OLD TAPPAN BREWING COMPANY
BAYVILLE BREWERY’S FIRST ANNIVERSARY
BY BERNIE KILKELLY
A year after the Village of Bayville celebrated
its centennial, the village’s first
craft brewery, Old Tappan Brewing Company,
cheers its first year in business.
Film business veterans and homebrew
hobbyists-turned- Old Tappan co-owners
Matthew Cryan and Brent Kunkle
opened the brewery after spending
eight months renovating a 1,200-squarefoot
former dance studio, where they
installed a one-barrel brewing system.
They repurposed oak from the studio’s
dance floor to make the taproom bar.
“We aim to make drinkable beers so people
can enjoy having more than a couple,”
said Cryan.
The name “Old Tappan” is a shout-out to
Cryan’s hometown of Glen Cove, where
he enjoyed bicycling on tree-lined
Old Tappan Road, as depicted in the
brewery’s logo. Now a resident of Bayville,
he and Kunkle, who lives in nearby
Sea Cliff, decided to locate their brewery
in Bayville, which has a bustling downtown,
especially in summer.
Old Tappan quickly earned a loyal following
for its quality beers and laid-back
taproom decorated with movie posters
and for serving popcorn as a nod to the
co-owners’ film background.
The brewery expanded its brewing
capacity in early 2020 to two barrels,
with Cryan brewing twice a week to
keep up with strong demand.
Cryan said he typically
aims to have six beers on
tap in the taproom, with
a focus on seasonal ales
and session beers that
are lower in alcohol.
Currently available
at the brewery are
Bayville Blonde Ale, a light-bodied ale;
Bog Monster hazy New England-style
IPA, dry hopped with Citra hops; Bionic
Osprey IPA, a West Coast-style hoppy
IPA; and Cascadian Ale, a dark hoppy ale.
Other beers planned to be in rotation this
summer will be Blueberry Ale, a fruity
American Pale Ale; Accidents Will
Hefe’n, a refreshing hefeweizen made
with Belgian yeast; and German Hex
beer, a German-style wheat beer made
with white wheat.
Cryan and Kunkle are both on hiatus
from the film business while they work
on growing Old Tappan and expanding
brewing operations in Bayville.
"One of our main goals was to become a
community business,” said Kunkle. “The
pandemic hit and we quickly found out
what you can do for the community, and
what the community can do for you.
The people of Bayville and surrounding
communities have been tremendous and
we are proud to be doing our part to give
back.”
Old Tappan Brewing Company
is located at 37 Ludlam
Ave. in Bayville. For more
informat ion visit
oldtappanbrewing.com.
Bernie Kilkelly is the
editor and publisher of
LIBeerGuide.com.
L. to R.: Brent Kunkle and Matthew Cryan.
Huntington Hospital’s frontline caregivers
selflessly persisted in the battle against the
unprecedented coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
as it struck the Town of Huntington. The hospital
is grateful for the support that poured in from
Town of Huntington residents and New Yorkers
far and wide who generously donated financial
support as well as goods and meals to maintain
morale and help the frontline get through the worst
of the crisis.
Northwell Health has treated more hospitalized
COVID-19 patients than any other health system
in America. Huntington Hospital, rated New York
State’s No. 1 community hospital by US News &
World Report, has successfully discharged more
than 850 COVID-19 patients since the pandemic
first impacted the region in March.
“We are so fortunate to be in this tremendously
supportive community who rallied to show us their
appreciation as we cared for COVID-19 patients,”
said Nick Fitterman, MD, executive director of
Hun-tington Hospital. “Each of these donations
helped our staff to feel encouraged and appreciated
through an extraordinarily trying time. Thank
you very much.”
Donations to Huntington Hospital
Below is a list of highlighted donations that
Huntington Hospital and its caregivers received:
• Through the Huntington Hospital Meals
Facebook page, more than $150,000 was paid to
local restaurants who provided 20,000 meals to
Huntington Hospital caregivers
• 200 bountiful Easter baskets for caregivers’ children
• Cases of hand sanitizer utilized throughout
the hospital
• 120 iPads, which were critically needed to
facilitate virtual visitation between patients and
their families
• A rock garden called “Huntington Hospital Rocks”
• More than 2,000 bottles of wine
• 2,500 oversized laminated staff badges
• Plants and flowers for Easter and Mother’s Day
• Thousands of face masks, water bottles and
N95 masks
• Dozens of board games
• A framed photo of a rainbow directly over
Huntington Hospital
• School nurses from local public primary schools
present flowers to hospital nurses during their shift
change every Thursday evening
Starting in the middle of May, New York State
Governor Andrew Cuomo gave Huntington Hospital
the green light to perform elective surgeries, allowing
the hospital to resume vital care to non-Covid-19
patients. To prepare, the hospital’s administration and
staff planned for weeks, creating a hospital-within-ahospital
for surgical patients. Huntington Hospital
has utilized several proven Covid-19 killing cleaners
throughout its hospital to disinfect. These substances
that have been shown by the US Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention to kill Covid-19 are Virex
256 and bleach. After an area has been cleaned, an
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) test, which measures
microorganisms, is performed. If a room or area does
not have a low enough score to be considered clean
after this test is completed, it is re-cleaned until it
passes the test.
Every patient who comes through Huntington
Hospital’s doors receives a Covid-19 test, and surgical
patients get theirs within 48-72 hours of their procedure.
Pre-surgical testing is done in a socially distanced
manner and includes a temperature check. To maintain
social distancing guidelines, surgical patients will be
given a scheduled time to come to the hospital for their
procedure. When a patient comes in for surgery, they
will receive a mask and hand sanitizer and all of their
items will be wiped down in the hospital’s vestibule.
Throughout a non-Covid-19 patient’s hospitalization,
they are kept in separate, fully cleaned areas and travel
through pathways that are designated as Covid-19-free.
As part of the hospital-within-a-hospital, there is a
designated Covid-free recovery floor with dedicated
nursing, environmental services and other staff who are
regularly screened. As patients recover, they are kept at
least six feet apart from one another, and are cared for
by designated staff that only works in Covid-free areas.
At Huntington, the numbers speak for themselves:
The hospital staff has been shown to have a lower
frequency of getting Covid-19 than the general public,
thanks to their preventative measures and consistent
use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
COVID-19 response from community helps
hospital, staff through crisis
A safe haven for surgical patients
Elective surgeries are moving forward at Huntington Hospital
Huntington Hospital staff received flowers for Mother’s D Day thanks to two generous donors.
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