Hold my beer (and other craft drinks): It’s the Crushies!
By GREGORY ZELLER // The 2024 Craft Beer Marketing Awards are in the can, with the born-on-Long Island competition extending its international reach to spread high honors among a world…
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With charity adds, ‘Crushies’ are the complete package
By GREGORY ZELLER // A born-on-Long Island global competition with a true “can-do” attitude has once again flexed some amazing art, mind-blowing marketing and fantastic fundraising. The 2023 Craft Beer…
Hops to it: Fourth-annual Crushies greets early birds
By GREGORY ZELLER // Organizers have tapped the keg on the latest installment of the beer-battered king of Long Island marketing-award programs. The fourth Craft Beer Marketing Awards – an…
No. 720: A pre-Labor Day celebration, featuring Teddy Roosevelt, Mike Richter and zombies (with coconuts)
Final thoughts: You made it, intrepid innovator! Not just the end of another busy workweek but the Friday before Labor Day weekend – truly, the official unofficial end of…
A redevelopment dream comes true at Garvies Point
By JIM McCUNE // Garvies Point is a residential and recreational paradise on Long Island’s North Shore. Most of the present-day Garvies Point Preserve was formerly part of the Garvie…
Blue Point Brewing represents, again, in third Crushies
By GREGORY ZELLER // Twelve New York-based winners – including two Long Island companies sharing a double win – paced the field in the 2022 Craft Beer Marketing Awards. Known…
New categories, competitors fill third-annual Crushies
By GREGORY ZELLER // With new hops in its step, one of Long Island’s most innovative awards/marketing programs is back for another round, and bigger than ever. Organizers are already…
The first-ever Crushies are, um, in the can
By GREGORY ZELLER // A little later than expected – but still fresh – the first national competition saluting the best in craft-beer marketing has announced its inaugural champions, including…
In craft-beer marketing, absolutely crushing it
By GREGORY ZELLER // For just about every commercially available “craft beer” – some counts now tally 7,000-plus microbreweries across the nation – there’s an “official competition” naming the tastiest,…
Long Ireland keeps those Irish eyes (and lips) smiling
By JIM McCUNE // For years, best friends Greg Martin and Dan Burke worked together as mechanical technicians for a local home-heating oil company, often getting through their grueling days…
For LI brewers, Craft Beer Week is a show of strength
By JIM McCUNE // With a jumpstart on this year’s American Craft Beer Week, the seventh-annual Long Island Craft Beer Week returns with a Nassau County Cask Kickoff May 11….
McCune: Partly cloudy, chance of awesome in NEIPAs
By JIM McCUNE // New England India Pale Ale is a conundrum. It’s not even a recognized beer style. But this new variation on the IPA has emerged as one…
Moustache: Membership (and growth) have privileges
By JIM McCUNE // The first rule of the Society for Fine Liquid Provisions: You always talk about the Society for Fine Liquid Provisions. This ain’t “Fight Club.” The members-only…
At Patchogue’s BrickHouse, 21 and all grown up
By JIM McCUNE // The South Shore’s Patchogue Village has undergone a major revitalization in recent years – new shops, bars and restaurants seem to open every day, and the…
Spinal tap? This Spider-Man certainly adjusted well
By JIM McCUNE // Around these parts, Larry Goldstein is the real Spider-Man. As legend has it, Goldstein got bit by a bug, and as he gazed at the fang…