Beers from another Long Island brewery have quietly started to pop up in New York City over the past couple of months. Blind Bat Brewery, based in Centerport on the North Shore of Long Island, is appearing around the city on draft and in bottles. Blind Bat is a small-batch (now up to 3 barrel - or 90 gallon - batches), one-man (that man being Paul Dlugokencky) brewery that specializes in beers made with wood-smoked malt, but also offers some other unique styles.

Blind Bat has been spotted on tap recently at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village), The Ginger Man (11 E. 36th St., at 5th Ave., Midtown), in Brooklyn at Moonshine (317 Columbia St., at Woodhull St., Carroll Gardens), and in Westchester at Blue Hill at Stone Barns (630 Bedford Rd., Pocantico Hills) . They’ve also been delivering their 16-ounce bottles to New Beer Distributors (167 Chrystie St., at Rivington St., Lower East Side) since December. Among the offerings they’ve brought to the city are the Hellsmoke Porter, a rich, chocolatey dark brew with English pale malt smoked over alder and applewood, and the even more unique Long Island Potato Stout, a dry stout that uses organically-grown local potatoes in the mash.

And yes, this is a labor of love: Paul smokes the malt and peels, boils, and mashes the potatoes himself.

It’s always good to have another option on the taps at New York’s beer bars, and it’s even better when it’s local. Keep an eye out for these two brews, and some lighter-bodied options as the weather warms up this summer.