Then public will decide which five breweries make it into a taste-off by filling out an online ballot. Then, on a June date to be announced a judging panel led by Governor Andrew Cuomo will conduct a blind taste in Ndew York City and select a winner.
News of the contest comes right on the heels of the 20th annual TAP NY competition at Hunter Mountain, an event that decrees the best brewers and brews in the state. It has nothing to do with the Taste NY program.
If you need a refresher course on the many breweries located in the Greater Capital and environs, here is a list. I keep the geographic definition rather loose, given the propensity of people in this area to travel a bit to attend the many drinks and food shows and festivals with which it abounds. Thus, certain nearby parts of the Adirondacks, Catskills and Cooperstown area are include.
- Adirondack Pub & Brewery, 33 Canada Street, Lake George
- Argyle Brewing, One Main Street, Greenwich
- Artisinal Brew Works, 41 Geyser Road, Saratoga Springs
- Battle Hill Brewing Co., 4 Charles Street, Fort Ann
- Beer Diviner, 461 Broadway, Troy, and 243 Bly Hollow Road, Petersburg
- Big Slide Brewery & Public House, 5686 Cascade Road, Lake Placid
- Big Tupper Brewing, 12 Cliff Avenue, Tupper Lake
- Brewery LaHoff, 50 Vedder Road, Coxsackie (to open this year)
- Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown
- Brown's Brewing Co., 417 River Street, Troy, and 50 Factory Hill Road, North Hoosick
- Cave Mountain Brewing Co., 5359 State Route 23, Windham
- Chatham Brewing, 59 Main Street, Chatham
- C.H. Evans Brewing/Albany Pump Station, 19 Quackenbush Square, Albany
- Common Roots Brewing Co., 58 Saratoga Avenue, South Glens Falls
- Cooper's Cave Ale Co., 2 Sagamore Street, Glens Falls
- Cooperstown Brewing Co., 110 River Street, Milford
- Council Rock Brewery, 4861 State Highway 28, Cooperstown
- Crossroads Brewing Co., 21 Second Street, Athens
- Davidson Brothers Brewing Co., 184 Glen Street, Glens Falls
- Druthers, 381 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, and 1053 Broadway, Albany
- Dutch Ale House, 255 Main Street, Saugerties
- Great Adirondack Brewing Co., 2442 Main Street, Lake Placid
- Great Flats Brewing, 151 Lafayette Street, Schenectady (to open this year)
- Green Wolf Brewing, 315 Main Street, Middleburgh
- Hank Hudson Brewing, The Fairways of Halfmoon, 17 Johnson Road, Mechanicville
- Helderberg Brewery, Carey Institute for Global Good, 100 Pond Hill Road, Rensselaerville
- Helderberg Mountain Brewing Co., 141 Warners Lake Road, East Berne
- Honey Hollow Brewing Co., 376 East Honey Hollow Road, Earlton
- Hudson Brewing Co., 99 South 3rd Street, Hudson
- Indian Ladder Farmstead Brewery and Cidery, 342 Altamont-Voorheesville Road, Altamont
- Lake Placid Pub & Brewery, 813 Mirror Lake Drive, Lake Placid
- Mad Jack Brewing, The Van Dyck Lounge,237 Union Street, Schenectady
- Mean Max Brew Works, 193 Glen Street, Glens Falls
- Olde Saratoga Brewing Co., 131 Excelsior Avenue, Saratoga Springs
- Paradox Brewery, 154 Route 9, Schroon Lake
- Racquette River Brewing, 11 Balsam Street, Tupper Lake,
- Rare Form Brewing Co., 90 Congress Street, Troy
- Real McCoy Beer Co., 20 Hallwood Road, Delmar
- Red Shed Brewery, 817 Butterbowl Road, Cherry Valley
- Rip Van Winkle Brewing, Angela's Italian Bistro & Brewery, 4545 NY Route 32, Catskill
- R.S. Taylor & Sons Brewery, 3602 County Route 30, Salem
- Serious Brewing Co., 116 Caverns Road, Howes Cave
- Shmaltz Brewing Co., 6 Fairchild Square, Clifton Park
- Sloop Brewing, 1065 County Route 19, Elizaville
- S&S Farm Brewery, 174 Middle Road, Nassau
- Steadfast Beer Co., 90 State Street, Albany
- Suarez Family Brewery, 2278 Route 9, Livingston
- Wolf Hollow Brewing Co., 6882 Amsterdam Road, Glenville
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