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Hudson Valley Almanac

Beverage Trails

Cideries, breweries, distilleries, and wineries across the Valley — one region-wide guide, and one for every corner of it.

Roughly 180 craft-beverage producers are in the directory — more than any other single thing the Almanac tracks besides the farms themselves. Start with the region-wide guide for the history and the big picture, or jump straight to your corner of the Valley.

Region-Wide · All 21 Counties
The Hudson Valley Craft-Beverage Trail

How the Valley became one of the great craft-beverage landscapes in America — roughly 180 cideries, breweries, distilleries, and wineries, where they cluster, and how to build a day around a glass.

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Ulster County · The Birthplace
The Ulster County Craft-Beverage Trail

The county where it all started — Tuthilltown, Whitecliff, and 18 more, from the Shawangunk Wine Trail to the Rondout Valley to the mountaintop.

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Orange County · The Black Dirt Bench
The Orange County Craft-Beverage Trail

23 cideries, breweries, distilleries, and wineries — Brotherhood's cellars, the Warwick orchard cluster, and the black-dirt grain belt.

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Dutchess County · The Beacon-Poughkeepsie Corridor
The Dutchess County Craft-Beverage Trail

18 cideries, breweries, distilleries, wineries, and even a sake brewery — Beacon's dense strip, Poughkeepsie's mills, and Millbrook's flagship vineyards.

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Greene · Delaware · Sullivan · Schoharie Counties
The Catskills Field-to-Glass Belt

36 cideries, breweries, and distilleries across four mountain counties — firehouse distilleries, foraged wild-apple cider, and farms that grow what they pour.

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Saratoga · Albany · Rensselaer · Schenectady · Columbia Counties
The Capital-Saratoga Beverage Corridor

34 cideries, breweries, distilleries, and wineries — spa-town brewpubs, Troy's riverfront, and the field-to-glass estates of Columbia County.

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Warren · Washington Counties
The Lake George Beverage Gateway

16 cideries, breweries, distilleries, and wineries ringing the Queen of American Lakes — a lakeside crawl into the southern Adirondacks.

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Westchester · Rockland Counties
The Lower Hudson Beverage Trail

17 cideries, breweries, distilleries, and wineries closest to the city — Captain Lawrence's pioneering brewery and the county's only cidery and winery.

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