Hudson Valley NY Articles

ingchr1 · Jan 20, 2018

Came across this one focused on Orange County:

http://www.dirt-mag.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20180101/STORIES01/180109999/0/SEARCH

When Long Lot, the nanobrewery on the Johnson Dairy Farm, gets its license any day now, it will be the ninth in Orange County, NY. Which is just fine by everyone.
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Nikki Cavenaugh, co-owner of Rushing Duck – who finds herself an original gangster of the local microbrew movement at 30 – set up shop in Chester after graduating college precisely because there was nobody brewing here. But she’s doing more than watching the invasion coming on her heels. As the Hudson Valley representative of the New York State Brewers Association, she’s helping them come. The association is primarily a political one, pushing issues like allowing tasting rooms to sell pints, not just growlers.
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Barley has not been a regular sight in New York since before Prohibition, said Chip Lain, the ninth-generation farmer who founded Black Dirt Malt and is now growing and malting 100 acres of it. New York was once the country’s barley capital, but today’s barley likes dryer conditions than we have here. Still, one of the eight varieties he’s planted so far seems promising, “so that’s the one we’re sticking with.”
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Oates and his partner, Ricardo Petroni, chose Orange County in part because, unlike Vermont, “the brewery per capita” wasn’t too dense.

“New York was underserved,” he said. “Now the flip side is exciting: the Hudson Valley will, I think, be a sort of craft beer destination.”

All of a sudden, as Cavenagh puts it, “You don’t have to go to the other side of the river to experience fun anymore.”
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