NEW BRIGHTON — Beer lovers looking for rare brews in the city need to just hop on the ferry to Staten Island.
The Mexican restaurant and bar Adobe Blues ranked in the top 10 for biggest selection, variety, rarest brews and cheapest prices among hundreds of bars around the city, according to a new study.
The analytics company Datascope compiled a list of brews posted by 270 brewpubs, bars, restaurants, beer stores and breweries in the city on Beermenus.com and ranked them based on the number of offerings, how rare they are, the biggest selection of styles and the most expensive and cheapest neighborhoods.
The New Brighton spot, at 63 Lafayette Ave., broke the top 10 in every category — except priciest neighborhood — and was the only Staten Island place to rank as high, according to the study.
For best variety, Adobe Blues was second in the city of all the bars analyzed with 67 different styles of beer, just below the Top Hops Beer Shop in the Lower East Side.
"Surprisingly, in second place is Adobe Blues, a Mexican restaurant on the northern shore of Staten Island. Come for the Carne Adovada, stay for the Nebraska Black Betty Reserve Series Russian Imperial Stout," the Datascope study said.
In rarest selection, Adobe Blues tied for ninth place with Fraunces Tavern, both having 27 beers that couldn't be found in any other bar in the city. The bar has been known to serve beer from the highly rated Hill Farmstead Brewery, which brews in limited quantities that rarely make it outside of Vermont.
For biggest selections, the bar came in fourth place by offering 206 different beers at the time the data was compiled.
The only measure the bar didn't rank highly on was priciest neighborhoods for beer, instead making it to the bottom of Datascope's ranking of cheapest neighborhoods with an average of $6.50 a pint in New Brighton.
