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Brewers Help Raise $58k for Sandy Victims
The Surge Protector IPA was a collaborative effort by eight different brewers.
About six months after brewing up 60 barrels of beer for charity, the work of eight Long Island breweries was realized late last week – just before this week's Long Island Craft Beer Week – in the form of two $29,000 checks, one to an Oceanside-based brewery that was wiped out by Hurricane Sandy, and another to L.I. Cares.
Long Ireland Beer Company contributed two 55-pound bags of pale malt, as well as 11 pounds of Columbus hops toward the creation of Surge Protector IPA, a collaborative India Pale Ale that eight breweries helped pitch in to make.
As Patch reported last December, the brewing effort included Spider Bite Beer Company, Blind Bat Brewery, Barrier Brewing, Great South Bay Brewery, Greenport Harbor Brewing Company, Port Jeff Brewing Company, Blue Point Brewery and LIBC. Clare Rose Distributors signed on to pump out the product for the cause as well.
The ale was brewed at Blue Point, with half the proceeds going to benefit Barrier Brewing, which suffered over $100,000 in damages to their newly-renovated brewery.
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