Mid-Atlantic breweries in planning (2022)

In kind of a weird lull right now. A LOT of places have opened in the last 3-4 months but now besides that Argonne Rose spot in Peekskill I think that’s it for the rest of the year. No new announcements of projects starting either.

 

Some kind-of updates?

1) Hudson River Brewing — which I still believe to be an elaborate ruse — is apparently canning. First run is gonna be a cream ale. Where they will be sold and distributed I don’t know because the fucking KGB is freer with information than this brewery.

2) Saw an IG update from Port Schuyler Brewing. No info whatever with it, but they’re still planning on existing I suppose.

3) At Seven Star Brewing now (which replaced Mad Jack in Schenectady) and you’d barely even know there was change. Which I don’t mean to be a dig — I liked Mad Jack a lot and Seven Stars’ beer is in the same vein and the space hasn’t changed a bit.

 

Update to this update:

Talked to one of the owners at Seven Star and they actually retained the brewer from Mad Jack (and thus the recipes too) so it’s really just a new name and nothing else.

Which, again, is not a negative since MJ always did solid and underrated work there.

 

We have actual information!!! I repeat, we have actual information!!!

They’re in Buchanan NY, five miles south of Peekskill and only a mile from River Outpost. Open for can sales only RN, no word on taproom, but the great mystery is solved.

 

Apparently Good Nature is like $5M in debt and behind on mortgage payments and the owner just got pushed out by the private equity firm that owns that debt.

I can’t imagine they last very much longer. I’m incredibly fucking bummed, the OG Good Nature taproom was the first brewery taproom I ever went to (probably 12-13 years or so ago at this point) and Annie was the first beer I truly fell in love with. I can’t overstate how important that beer is to me and to what craft beer is as a hobby for me.

Maybe I’m wrong and they can hold on but with PE ghouls involved nothing good ever happens for anyone. Fuck.

 

Got an opening: Runaway Blue Brewing in Newark… New York. Today. Easy of Rochester and right off 90. Opened by a former brewer from Young Lion and his wife, running on a two-barrel system.

Space looks really nice, I’ll have to check it out next time I’m out that way.

 

That’s the one. And to be clear they’re still open and running (I guess?) as usual but when private equity bloodsuckers get involved their “investment” is never long for the world.

That said, if they go under you’ll have Bullthistle 15 mins to the south or Foothill Hops 15 minutes to the North. They’re not Good Nature but it’s something.

 

Hell yeah, great to hear. Excited to check it out on one (or more) of my trips out to the lake next year.

 

Saw this place over the summer but they had like nothing on social media at the time so glad to see an update. And yet another place to peep when I’m in the area.

It’s THE most first-world problem but there are so many fucking breweries in the FLX now that even with like two weeks spent out there every year I can’t get everywhere I want to go. OH FLX/Frequentum/Young Lion/Ardennes are guaranteed stops every year but I also wanna do Steuben, Naples Brewing. Laurentide and Noble Shepherd and then I gotta try to do Mortalis/Okay Brewing/Fifth Frame/Strangebird too.

That’s not counting whatever new stuff pops up every year or stuff I keep putting off until next year like Silver Lake/Amber Lantern or Kent/Railhead/Battle Street.

I gotta find a way to just retire at 36.

 

Well see therein lies the problem: You physically cannot hit all of those in a day. Between travel times, you’re probably at each place at least an hour, gotta eat a few times, etc it’s not feasible to hit 4, MAYBE 5 in a day.

And that’s assuming it’s a Saturday or Sunday and they’re all open starting at 11-12 because it’s gonna be later during the week and that fucks with logistics too.