Blue Point Brewing Company and Fire Island National Seashore are joining forces Saturday for a World Environment Day party at the Patchogue brewery.
Taking center stage will be an exclusive charitable brew called Drink the Bay Clean IPL (India pale lager), proceeds from which will go toward efforts by Save the Great South Bay to restore the long-ailing South Shore estuaries back to health.
“This bay isn’t going to clean itself!” Blue Point declares on its event page.
The festivities run from noon to 8 p.m.
Kaetlyn Jackson, National Park Service park planner and Patchogue resident, said Blue Point reached out to FINS after the success of October’s river cleanup.
“They wanted to do another community driven outreach event,” she said. “It’s really cool they’re interested in the local environment and getting the people who work in these fields on board.”
Twenty nonprofit environmental groups and other organizations will be on hand Saturday, from noon to 4 p.m., to help educate the public about Long Island’s natural resources.
“Something like this helps people better understand where they live, how their actions affect their local environment, and what they can do to help,” Jackson said.
Blue Island Oyster and Farm to Truck will also be on hand.
“Save The Great South Bay is very grateful for the support,” said the group’s president and co-founder, Marshall Grown. “It can take 1o years or more to build a sewer system. How many homes will have replaced their cesspools with these denitrification systems? We need to improve our water quality today, not 10 years from now.”
He said the proceeds from the beer sales will help the group do just that.
The money will help support Save the Great South Bay’s Creek Defender Program, which promotes local stewardship, and the The I Love Long Island Campaign, which teaches people how to have eco-friendly, bay friendly yards.
“And our aquaculture efforts,” he added, “where we are seeking to improve the bay’s water quality through shellfish and algae harvesting.”
The Drink the Bay Clean label was designed by Brookhaven resident, graphic designer and founder of Carleton Clothing and its signature Long Island Fish logo, Reid Carleton.
Check back for an interview with Carleton about the design.
IF YOU PARTAKE:
10 a.m. to noon: Cleanup at Bradley Breach
Noon to 4 p.m.: Environmental nonprofits will be at the brewery
4-8 p.m.: The Drink the Bay Clean IPL release party. Music from Nonstop To Cairo.
Photo: Blue Point Brewery and Save the Great South Bay Facebook events
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