Small Town Breweries

Iron springs in Fairfax, CA. Great little town and even better beer. I lived in SF for a few years and used to mt. bike in the area and this was always a place to enjoy the beers we earned after a long ride. Beer was legit!

 

Davenports Great river has ok beer. They have been having issues with infection. If your in the area I highly recommend Bent River brewery Rock Island Illinois
Definitely the best brew in the quad city area.

 

North country brewing company, slippery rock Pennsylvania. They will start canning soon

 

Like Wolf Hills in Abingdon VA

 

The Gamble Mill Restaurant and Microbrewery in Bellefonte, PA. Population around 6,000 (medium sized, I guess)

 

Ovalde Farm and Brewery, Rollingstone, MN Pop. 650

 

Cooperstown, well, how about Brewery Ommegang then, right?

 

Unsure of the population of Greencastle, ME, but I'm gonna give a shout out to Oxbow. What I've had of theirs is excellent.

 

Mercury Brewing, brewers of Ipswich Ales in Ipswich MA

 

Indian Wells Brewery, Inyokern, CA pop. 1099 (2010)

 

Mehoopany PA at 892 residents has a winery and a brewery at Nimble Hill

Montrose with 1664 inhabitants boasts a brewery out in its "suburbs", Endless Brewing
Selinsgrove is huge at over 5300 folks !

 

Roseland Virginia is the home of Devil's Backbone (pop 1977)

 

Spring House Brewing Company


The brewery is in Conestoga, PA, which has a population of about 1300. Granted they now have a bar/restaurant in Lancaster (about 60,000 people), they still brew in Conestoga.

They make some damn tasty beers too.



Troegs (Hershey - pop. ~ 14200) and Victory (Downingtown - pop. ~ 7900) are both in relatively small towns too, though I guess that depends on your definition of small.

 

Funny, I was wondering the size of those towns as I've had a good amount of Troeg's and Victory's over the years.

 

I've had Devil's Backbone, sorry, I didn't know they're from a small town too. I have had barely anything by Devil's Backbone to say anything in their favor. However, I will say that Morana's Dark Lager was good brew.

 

Very successful at the 2012 and 2013 GABF. 2012 they were voted Small Brewing Company of the year, and brought home 2 gold, 2 silver, and 4 bronze. In 2013 they were voted Small Brewing Company of the year, 2 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze. A nice bit of hardware for such a small brewery and to have only been around for such a short period. I've had their Eight Point IPA and their Kilt Flasher. Was definitely more impressed with the Kilt Flasher.

 

De Garde Brewing, Tilamook, Oregon (pop 4942)
Doing all spontaneously fermented beers! Delicious

 

Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury, VT. (pop. ~8,000)

 

Black Tooth Brewery in Sheridan, WY

 

VT is a small town state for better or worse.

 

The Alchemist...Waterbury VT (pop: 4915)

 

Chico is a small town when the students at Chico State aren't in session. I hear Sierra Nevada makes good beers. :-)
Ft Bragg is tiny period and Old Raspy ain't nuthin to shake a stick at.

 

Lost Coast in Eureka never gets mentioned. Nice people, nice place.

 

Galena Brewing Company in Galena, Il. The first to have red stripe.

 

In Danville, Ky there is a brewery named LORE, that has some decent beer. My only beef with them is they are bottle production only. You can not go to the brewery and get beer. For whatever reason it makes me think less of them and don't really care to get their stuff anymore because of this.

 

I have some traveling to do

 

Treehouse Brewing in Brimfield MA....population of around 3,600.

 

Acadian Farms in Carson, Washington

Little Yeoman in Cabool, Missouri.
Gruhkle's in Berger, Missouri
Piney River in Bucyrus, Missouri
2nd Shift in New Haven, Missouri
Bat Creek in Bowling Green, Missouri

Kassik's in Kenai, Alaska
Haines Brewing in Haines, Alaska
Skagway and Kenai River Brewing in Soldatna, Alaska
Last Frontier in Wasilla, Alaska (You betcha!)
Denali Brewing in Talkeetna, Alaska
Homer Brewing in Homer, Alaska

The Missouri and Alaska small town lists are extensive, and I grow too weary to list the rest.

 

Worth Browing Company - Northwood, IA (pop 1977)

They use a 10 gallon system

http://www.worthbrewing.com/brewery.html