23 craft beverages in Orange County, New York.
The Hudson Valley cidery and innovation lab for Angry Orchard, the largest hard cider brand in America. The 60-acre orchard property in Walden features a tasting room offering exclusive ciders not available elsewhere — including the small-batch "Understood in Motion" series and other experimental releases. Beautiful outdoor tasting area with sweeping views of the orchard. Fall visits offer apple-picking-season tastings against a backdrop of stunning Hudson Valley foliage. Saturday morning yoga on the back lawn during warmer months.
A farm distillery on the grounds of Apple Dave's Orchards, the iconic 130-acre Warwick Valley apple farm planted by David Hull beginning in 1950 after his parents Donald and Dorothy bought the land in 1949. Apple Dave became one of the earliest pick-your-own pioneers in 1975 after a storage fire forced a pivot from wholesale to agritourism. After his passing in 2014, his son Peter Hull opened Apple Dave's Distillery the same year, producing 1840s-style freeze-distilled Apple Jack from estate apples in a converted red barn. The distillery serves estate spirits, locally grown wines, seasonal cocktails enhanced with garden ingredients, and local craft beers — alongside seasonal events including farm-to-table dinners and weekend live music. Picnic-table seating, pond and field trails, sweeping views of the Appalachian Trail above Apple Dave's lake.
A 25+ year family-owned and operated winery set in the Warwick Valley with mountain, orchard, lake, and wide-open views. Produces wines, ciders, meads, and signature cocktails. Indoor and outdoor seating with seasonal apple picking on the adjacent orchard property — and the on-site Apple Dave's Distillery (separate listing) for spirits flights. Live music, food trucks, and seasonal events.
The sister distillery to Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery, formed as Black Dirt Distilling LLC in 2012 and producing Black Dirt Bourbon and Black Dirt Apple Jack at a dedicated 4,000-square-foot facility built in 2013. Operates a 60-foot column still and produces up to 50 barrels a week. Named for the iconic black-dirt agricultural region of Orange County. Shares the Warwick Valley campus and tasting room for visitor experiences.
America's oldest continuously operating winery, founded in 1839 in Washingtonville. Historic stone-walled underground cellars are open for daily tours that trace the history of American winemaking through the Civil War, Prohibition (when the winery survived by producing sacramental wine), and the modern era. Produces a wide range of wines plus distilled spirits and a small tasting room program. Located on a sprawling 19th-century property with weddings, concerts, and seasonal events including a popular harvest festival.
The first City Winery location not in a city — a 22-acre property in Montgomery featuring a tasting room, restaurant, and concert/event venue. The 130-year-old historic mill has been transformed into a rustic-yet-urban winery. Hosts year-round live music and concerts in addition to wine production, tastings, and farm-to-table dining. A frequent stop on Hudson Valley craft beverage and music itineraries.
A craft brewery housed in the historic 19th-century Clemson Brothers hacksaw factory at the corner of Cottage Street and Railroad Avenue in Middletown — the original facility where William and George Nathan Clemson founded their world-leading hacksaw works in 1890. The brewery opened in October 2015 by Kenan Porter (a beverage-industry veteran), his father Kenneth (a real estate developer), and his brother Paul (a trained brewer), after the family fell in love with the building's old-school brewery feel and 100,000 square feet of expansion potential. The taproom and pub serve IPAs, stouts, lagers, and seasonal releases alongside award-winning chicken wings, craft burgers, and pub fare. Features a 3,200-square-foot industrial-elegant tap and banquet room and, in warm weather, a 7,500-square-foot beer garden. A second location is open in New Paltz.
A craft brewery on a scenic Warwick property in an old building with a creek-side setting, fire pits, indoor and outdoor seating across two floors. Features the Eloise IPA, Pilsner, Wheat Beer, and seasonal releases. Family- and dog-friendly with a brick-oven pizza restaurant on-site and food truck options. Live music on weekends. Named for the historic "Drowned Lands" — the black dirt region's pre-drainage swamp era.
A highly-regarded craft brewery in Middletown founded by two MIT graduates, known for hazy IPAs, double IPAs, and pastry stouts that have built a national following. Frequent collaborations with breweries across the country including District 96 Beer Factory. Limited canned releases sell out quickly online; taproom in-person purchases are a major draw for craft beer enthusiasts traveling to the Hudson Valley.
A 47-acre farm brewery, farm-to-table restaurant, and event venue at The Oasis at Warwick, opened to the public in fall 2025 by Dan Doyle and brewmaster Charlie Holmgren (a Great American Beer Festival gold-medal alumnus). The 15-tap lineup features in-house craft beers and meads — farmhouse ales, IPAs, pilsners, stouts, and Passion Pony, a prickly-pear hard seltzer — with guest taps from Warwick's Doc's Cider. The property is also home to an 18-hole disc golf course designed by Doyle (a 2025 World Disc Golf Hall of Fame inductee) and an on-site apiary producing honey for the meads. Bread Stone Oven on the outdoor pavilion supports the farm-to-table kitchen.
A craft brewery, pub, and elevated kitchen housed in an 1880s three-story turn-of-the-century building in downtown Port Jervis, near where the Delaware River meets the NY/NJ/PA tri-state intersection. Founded by brewer Sean Donnelly and partners (including co-owner DK), Fox N Hare opened in 2017 and was credited with helping revive the city's historic downtown by restoring a vacant building. The brewing program leans German — saisons, Belgians, ungespundet-style lagers, and IPAs — with the open downstairs brewhouse visible from the wood-and-brick dining room beneath a pressed tin ceiling. The kitchen sources locally and grows its own herbs, leafy greens, and spices on-site; vegetarian and gluten-free options available. Beer, wines, ciders, and craft cocktails. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
A locally owned craft brewery in the village of Florida, named for nearby Glenmere Lake (the source of their brewing water), with a 2,000-square-foot tasting room and a 15-barrel brewhouse where everything is brewed on-premises. Two to three rotating beers are produced at a time to follow the seasons, with the team drawing on more than 15 years of brewing experience. Their gold-medal Farmhouse Ale took top honors at the 2018 Taste NY Craft Beer Competition (placing Glenmere among the top breweries in the state). Pints, flights, growler fills, and brewery tours of the working facility are all on offer. Live music every Saturday. A Taste NY attraction and a stop on the Orange County Taste the Craft Beverage Trail.
A true nano farm brewery on a fifth-generation family-owned dairy farm in Chester, where most of the hops in your pint are grown right behind the brewery building — a small farm-to-glass operation honoring New York's Farm Brewery Law requirement that at least 60% of ingredients come from New York State. Beers run from the Mad Cow milk stout and a Maple Porter brewed with sap tapped from the property's own maple trees, to seasonal saisons, IPAs, and house signatures. Six to ten taps in a small tasting room with a front porch and an outdoor area overlooking the hop yard, vegetable gardens, chickens, and barn cats. Often draws beer travelers crossing town between Long Lot and the nearby Rushing Duck. Closed Tuesdays; afternoons and evenings the rest of the week.
The hard cider and mead brand of Applewood Winery in Warwick, Orange County, crafted from 100% New York apples and honey. Naked Flock's tasting room shares Applewood Winery's farm campus at 82 Four Corners Road, where rotating small-batch dry, semi-dry, and seasonal ciders are poured alongside the meadery line by the glass, flight, pint, or growler. Family-owned, with no added water, flavorings, or colorants. Launched in 2012.
Orange County's first brewery to open, located along the picturesque Hudson River in a beautifully renovated industrial building. Features a vast communal tasting hall, scratch-cooked comfort food kitchen, games, live music on Friday and Saturday nights, and an unpretentious atmosphere. Diverse beer lineup spanning sessionable ales to bold IPAs and limited releases. Family-friendly with happy hour specials. Color-coded can system for table service. Part of the Orange County Taste the Craft Beverage Trail and a foundational stop on the Hudson Valley brewery circuit.
A farm brewery at Brown Barn Farms co-located with Orange County Distillery, run by John Glebocki and partner Bryan Ensall on land his great-great grandparents turned into a farm in the late 1800s. Launched in 2020 as a pandemic-era expansion of the distillery, introducing a Pilsner, Pale Ale, and IPA on March 18 of that year. Some brews are aged in bourbon barrels from the adjacent distillery operation. Located in the heart of the Black Dirt region.
A farm-to-bottle distillery at Brown Barn Farms in New Hampton, founded ~2014 by John Glebocki and partner Bryan Ensall. Grains are grown on Glebocki's family farm in the uncommonly fertile Black Dirt region — originally onion country, now converted to grain production for spirits. Distinctive for using sugar beets in their vodka and grain in their whiskey and gin. Tasting room located in a beautifully rustic post-and-beam barn ("Brown Barn") with an upstairs lounge under a gambrel roof. Live music, food trucks, and the adjacent Orange County Brewing Company round out the visitor experience.
Award-winning estate cidery at Soons Orchards (farming apples since 1910) in New Hampton, founded in 2013. Produces European-inspired hard ciders, pommeau, and apple brandy from estate-grown apples using minimal intervention and traditional techniques. NY Times praised their small lots of pure, brisk, refreshing ciders. Taproom with farm-to-table meals and cocktails, weekend brunch, cider club, live events, and private dining.
The cidery arm of the Pennings family operation in Warwick, established 2016 — a farm-to-glass hard cider producer crafting ciders from apples and other ingredients grown on Pennings Farm or sourced from local growers. Run by SJ and Tori Pennings. Taproom features 12 rotating taps with house ciders, plus apple vodka. Group flight tastings include six samples and a tour of the production facility, visible from inside the Taproom. Housed in a rustic Amish-built barn with panoramic views of the Warwick Valley, plus an outdoor lawn with Adirondack chairs, a beer garden, brick-oven Neapolitan-style pizza, and live music. Less than 90 minutes from NYC.
A craft brewery in Chester producing a wide range of beer styles from hop-forward IPAs to Belgian-influenced ales. Part of the Hudson Valley brewery scene and a member of the Orange County Taste the Craft Beverage Trail. Taproom with rotating selections.
A craft distillery in Newburgh's historic waterfront district, one of the Hudson Valley's newer distilleries. Combines tradition with innovation, using NY-grown grains and botanicals to produce a line of small-batch craft spirits and premium bottled cocktails. Tasting room with cocktail menu.
A craft brewery in the historic Sugar Loaf area of Chester, producing a rotating lineup of ales, lagers, and seasonal releases. Taproom features local food trucks, frequent live music, and an inviting community atmosphere. Part of the Orange County Taste the Craft Beverage Trail.
A pioneering farm winery, cidery, and distillery on a Warwick orchard purchased in 1989, opened to the public in 1994. Home to Doc's Draft Hard Apple Cider — one of the oldest hard ciders in NY State, crafted from 10 apple varieties fermented with champagne yeast. In 2001 they opened the first fruit microdistillery in NY State since Prohibition, producing the American Fruits line of brandies and liqueurs. The orchard offers one of the most diverse pick-your-own selections on the East Coast with 65 heirloom and modern apple varieties. Doc's Cider line includes Pumpkin, Strawberry, Black Currant, Sour Cherry, and Framboise. Also produces award-winning Warwick Rustic Gin. Post-and-beam tasting room with farm-to-table café and live music every weekend.