MEDIA CLIPS:

Long Island Spirits, a craft distillery housed in an atomosheric North Fork barn on eighty acres of potato fields is producing LiV (rhymes with 5), a spirit with the “crispness of winter wheat balanced by the smoothness of the Long Island potato,” according to co-owner Richard Stabile.

~ November 15, 2007

The long island potato has squeezed into a vodka bottle once again. A restored Baiting Hollow barn is being converted into the East End’s first modern vodka distillery, a niche business that owners Richard Stabile and Dan Pollicino envisioned growing to include in-douse production tours and a tasting room, featuring several flavors, overlooking an 80-acre potato field.

~ September 13, 2007

Southampton Double White - The stalwart Belgian wit, or “white” beer, is meant to be chugged in the morning. Seriously, and on a really bad morning, Southampton’s amped-up twist on a Belgian white is sweet relief (publick.com).

~ October 2007

So, the celebrated Spotted Pig (“often heroically satisfying food,” wrote Frank Bruni, the restaurant critic for The Times) has Southampton’s Belgian-style Double White Ale, winner of several awards and the company’s best seller, and also local cask ales.

~ November 25, 2007