LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK
Serving as a brewpub since 1996, Patchogue’s red-bricked Main Street landmark, BRICK HOUSE BREWERY, a half-hour East of Farmingdale’s Black Forest Brew Haus, was initially visited February ’07.
The former hardware store with U-shaped left bar, upstairs banquet room, back dining area, rear beer garden, exposed ducts, and tin-tiled ceiling offered adequate menu (appetizers, light fare, Zuppa di Pesce, ribeye, chicken, pork) alongside reliable beers. Its rustic Bohemian brewing system at the front window served initial brewmaster Mark Burford’s varied fare.
Smooth-yet-pasty wheat-dried maize-husked citric-hopped astringency Main Street Light Ale and raw-honeyed cream-corned citric-tinged Honey Buzz were soothing openers. Sharp Cascade hopped, fig-date-soured, faintly red-fruited Hurricane Kitty Pale Ale will suffice veritable hop-heads.
Better were butternut-hazelnut-fused chocolate-roasted nutmeat-bound grapefruit-tingled Paul Brown Ale and dry alcohol-burned barley-roasted floral-accented pear-apple-grape-draped Brickhouse Red. Cappuccino-coffee-fronted, walnut-Brazilian nut-centered, black cherry-pureed, dark chocolate-backed Nitro Stout proved fine as lunchtime dessert.
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