10 craft beverages in Otsego County, New York.
A legendary craft brewery specializing in Belgian-style ales — founded in 1997 by Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield of beer importer Vanberg & DeWulf, on a 136-acre former hop farm in the Susquehanna River Valley four miles south of Cooperstown (technically in the town of Milford). Now owned by Belgian brewer Duvel Moortgat. Produces ~35,000 barrels annually of imaginative craft beers including the Three Philosophers Belgian Quadrupel, Hennepin Saison, Witte, Abbey Ale, and the famous Game of Thrones beer series. The on-site Café Ommegang offers a 100-seat menu of Belgian-inspired delights using local ingredients. Daily tours, brewery store with Game of Thrones souvenirs, Fire Pit Fridays, summer concert series, and the popular winter Snommegang festival.
Craft spirits producer whose Cooperstown Distillery Beverage Exchange at 73 Main Street is a tasting room, shop and cocktail lounge serving its own spirits alongside New York beer, wine and cider. Distillery tours, with a barrel tasting, run at the production site at 11 Railroad Avenue.
A craft brew facility neighboring Brewery Ommegang, producing a variety of beers made with 100% New York State ingredients and offering a strong line-up of guest taps from other NYS farm breweries — paired with a farm-to-table menu. Locals and visitors alike feel at home. A natural pairing with Ommegang and Red Shed for a full Otsego County beverage trail day.
The licensed New York State Farm Winery at the historic Fly Creek Cider Mill, producing hard ciders, apple wines, and spirits. Bottling cider-making traditions that predate refrigeration, when hard cider and apple wines were the safe, shelf-stable beverages of early New York pioneers. Original and Apple-Raspberry are the focused ciders, with seasonal limited productions throughout the year. The Tasting Room offers flights of ciders, wines, spirits, and craft beers overlooking the Millpond. A charter member of the Cooperstown Beverage Trail Association. Located on the grounds of Fly Creek Cider Mill & Orchard, voted Nation's Best Cidery 2024 by USA TODAY.
A farm brewery on a working hop farm along the Susquehanna River in Walton, producing beers made with hops grown on the property. The taproom features 8 taps mounted on a piece of Susquehanna driftwood — a fitting signature for a brewery that grows its own ingredients and draws character from the river it sits beside. Open weekends seasonally.
Northway Brewing's Cooperstown branch, in the former Red Shed taproom less than half a mile from Brewery Ommegang. About 20 rotating taps of Northway beer plus New York wine, spirits and canned cocktails, an outdoor beer garden, a food truck, and events. Northway is the Glens Falls brewery owned by the company behind Cooperstown Brewing.
A craft beverage maker in Fly Creek, Otsego County, making wine.
Red Shed Brewery's pub in the village of Cherry Valley, serving Red Shed beer and food.
Original Red Shed farm brewery and taproom on the family farm near Cherry Valley, brewing ales from New York hops and grains. Red Shed left its Cooperstown taproom; Cherry Valley is now its home.
A cidery in New Berlin, Otsego County, selling cider and crafts.