Old Klaverack Brewery

As a NYS Farm Brewery we are required to use a certain amount of NY Grain and Hops in our beer. We are so proud to be a NYS Farm Brewery that we don't feel that it is a requirement but a way of brewing. We use right now 100% NY Pale Malt from Germantown Beer Farm and most of our crystal malt as well comes from Germantown Beer Farm! If you would like to read more about our "Local" malstier please visit the "Who Grows Your Pint" page!

​I started as most brewers do, HOME BREWING!!! After home brewing for 4 years I decided to start planning my brewery. this process took me about 1.5 years to properly plan out. Once the brewery was planned out and I got all my approvals through the local, state, and federal agencies, we were off to the races. We are a NYS Farm Brewery, which means we are required to use a certain amount of NYS Grown ingredients. This really intrigued me ”Sourcing Local” and once we opened I found a malt house out in Hadley Mass. that malted nys grains. We were using this malt house for about months when another malt house opened about 20 minutes from the brewery called Germantown Beer Farm. I made arrangements to meet with the owner and talk malt! Since that meeting I have been dedicated to using their base malt in all my beers, and when available we also use their crystal malts.

​ Old Klaverack Hop Farm was started in 2014 as an experimental project started because I wanted desperately to grow hops for my son, Erik, an avid brewer with a penchant for putting good local ingredients into his brew kettle. He finally convinced me to plant a few hops rhizomes to see if the well drained soil of our farm land had characterizes for hop production. After the initial planting of three varieties of hops, Cascade, Galena, and Fuggles in the spring the plants did extremely well and we hoped that harvest would tell the tale we wanted to hear, and it did. Harvest time yielded more than we expected for 1st year plants and the size, quality and aroma was exceptional. We did not send any of the harvest out for alpha acid testing but plan extensive testing next harvest and beyond!

Our biggest mission here at OKB (Old Klaverack Brewery) is to source our ingredients from local sources when available. Hudson Valley Malt is our biggest supplier of local malt! Dennis works closely with his farmers to receive the best quality barley he can get and turn it into the best quality malt we can get as brewers!!!

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