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Cross Sound Ferry marketing assistant Jessie King pours a taste of Greenport Harbor Brewing Company’s Harbor Ale onboard the Cape Henlopen Friday. (Credit Grant Parpan)
Beginning Friday, the local craft beer is being poured on all Cross Sound Ferry trips between Orient and New London and from New London to Block Island.
“We’re really excited to bring our beer into New England and what better way to do it than by boat?” asked brewery co-founder Rich Vandenburgh during a press event aboard the Cross Sound Ferry’s Cape Henlopen.
Ferry officials estimate about 1,000 pints per week of Greenport’s Harbor Ale will be served aboard ferry trips this summer (June through September) and the brewery’s other styles could be carried in the future.
Public affairs director Stan Mickus said that estimate is based on the volume of beer the ferry typically sells each summer season.
“And it could be more considering this is such a superior product,” he said with a grin.
Greenport’s recently released bottles are also sold in Connecticut through a partnership with F&F Distributors. Representatives of F&F, the Long Island Farm Bureau, Cross Sound Deli, and Kontokosta Winery joined the ferry and brewery officials at Friday’s announcement.
Greenport Harbor Brewing Company co-founder John Liegey, Cross Sound Deli owner Susan Wronowski, Greenport Harbor Brewing Company co-founder Rich Vandenburgh and Cross Sound Ferry public affairs director Stan Mickus aboard the Cape Henlopen Friday. (Credit: Grant Parpan)Greenport Harbor Brewing Company founders Rich Vandenburgh (from left) and John Liegey with Cross Sound Ferry public affairs director Stan Mickus. (Credit: Grant Parpan)Cross Sound Ferry marketing assistant Jessie King pours a taste of Greenport Harbor Brewing Company’s Harbor Ale onboard the Cape Henlopen Friday. (Credit: Grant Parpan)Greenport Harbor Brewing Company parked its beer truck outside the Orient Point ferry terminal Friday. (Credit: Grant Parpan)
Grant Parpan is the content director for Times Review Partners, a division of Times Review Media Group in Mattituck.
Grant joined the Times Review staff in 2006 as a reporter and has covered nearly every beat in the newsroom.
He currently writes about lifestyle and business content, including writing about the North Fork food, wine and arts scenes for northforker.com.
Grant began his career in 2003 as a reporter and editor at The Signal, a daily newspaper in Santa Clarita, California.
In his career, he has won dozens of awards from the New York Press Association, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association and the Press Club of Long Island.
