Tapster Patchogue is open. Patchogue, you pour your own now.
The self-pour tasting room opened this past weekend at 48 W. Main St., in the old Long Island Pinball space. It’s the Chicago-based brand’s first spot in New York.
- What
- Tapster, a self-pour tasting room with 48 taps: beer, wine, hard cider, hard seltzer, cocktails and nonalcoholic drinks, plus a seven-bottle liquor dispenser
- Where
- 48 W. Main St., Patchogue
- When
- Open now. Sun noon-10 p.m., Mon 4-10 p.m., Tue-Thu 4 p.m.-midnight, Fri 2 p.m.-2 a.m., Sat noon-2 a.m. (hours may change)
- Price
- Pay by the ounce; screens show ABV and price per ounce
How it works
Check in with a host, show ID and put a card down. You get a Tapster card that turns on the taps and tracks every pour.
The move here is tasting. Pour a splash, try something new, then commit to a glass. Some taps stay put and others rotate as kegs run dry.
Between pours there are borrowable games, darts and a photo booth, with a pool table on the way. A back room handles private parties, and the owners plan comedy nights, paint-and-sip and dance classes.
A Long Island story
Tapster is run by a mother-daughter team, Allison and Megan Dee. Allison left a 35-year career in corporate accounting to do it. “I wanted to be social,” she said.
It took more than two years to land the right walkable downtown. Patchogue won. Start your night here and keep it locked to WLIT.FM, Long Island Tonight Radio.
Source: Greater Long Island. Photo: GLI/Julianne Mosher.
