Our Story · Barn Rocker How We Pitched the NY Islanders With No Recipe and Created Long Island's Most Famous Hockey Beer
By Oyster Bay Brewing Co. · April 2026 · 4 min read In 2014, we walked into the New York Islanders' offices with an idea, a handshake, and absolutely no recipe. What came out the other side was Barn Rocker — a beer that poured at Nassau Coliseum during the most emotional final season in Islanders history, and became the official beer of one of hockey's most loyal fan bases. This is how it happened. The Last Season at the Barn The 2014–15 season was the Islanders' goodbye to Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum — the building their fans had called home for over 40 years. The team's motto that year was simple and defiant: "Rock the Barn." For Long Island, it wasn't...