Don Cazentre is the food & drink writer for The Post-Standard and syracuse.com and the co-author of New York Breweries (2nd ed.). His work has also appeared in Ale Street News, Edible Finger Lakes and other publications.
The recent boom in new breweries has come with a secondary phenomenon: the growth in smaller scale commercial brewing equipment. Today, it seems, almost no one runs a commercial brewery without a pilot system.
