EW Howell Construction Group was selected by Anheuser-Busch InBev to complete construction services for the new home of the Blue Point Brewery located at 225 West Main Street in Patchogue, NY. EW Howell completed construction of the brewing manufacturing facility as well as construction of the tap room.

Located on the site of the former Briarcliffe College in downtown Patchogue, the new brewery and headquarters replace the former location on River Avenue, which served the company for the past 20 years. The new 68,000-square-foot brewery has dramatically increased the local company’s brewing capabilities while still leaving room for further expansion. The total space is about five times larger than at River Avenue, with the second floor and parts of the consumer entrance dedicated to the tasting room.

The size of the building allowed a significant project program that included Blue Point’s administrative headquarters, beer production and distribution, a brewer’s lab, a private tasting room, and a restaurant. The restaurant is located on the mezzanine above the brewery and office functions.

To accomplish this, EW Howell removed roughly 75 percent of the former college’s second floor to make room for grain milling, rows of towering fermentation tanks, and its canning and bottling packaging system.

Blue Point Brewing Company was established in 1998 as one of Long Island, New York’s first craft breweries. After nearly two decades in its original location, a cluster of small marina warehouses in the village of Patchogue, they had outgrown the space and needed to relocate.