The Mountain Eagle - Serious Brewing Co

Serious Brewing Co. is a NYS Farm Brewery located in scenic Schoharie County. We proudly serve our own fresh-brewed beers along with some of the state’s best farm-produced beer, wine, cider, and distilled spirits. On nice days, we open the patio doors for outside seating, and you’re welcome to enjoy a cold one with your best friend, whether they have two legs or four. Menus are available for local food delivery, or you can bring your own meal to pair with our beers. We also have snacks available on site.

Hours

Thursday - Saturday: 12pm-8pm

Sunday: 12pm-6pm

Closed Monday - Wednesday

How We Get Serious

I’m not exactly sure when my craft beer awakening happened, but I do remember where and how it happened. I was working out near Boston when a friend invited me to the Horse Shoe Pub in nearby Hudson. The place was great, awesome food and taps lining the back of the bar with just about any beer you could think of. They even had a beer safari where you’d get stuff along the way. I was three hours away and still managed to get halfway through my card.

One day in 1998, I was at an auction in Central Bridge, NY, and found a Brewers Choice fermenter in with the box lots. For a buck, how could I go wrong! That launched me on my way to brewing great beers.

A few years ago, the company I work for had its first round of layoffs, and that got me thinking, “What would I do if that was me?” The answer was clear: BEER! From that time forward, I started to take my brewing more seriously and began numbering my batches SB #1, standing for Serious Brewing batch 1.

As a home brewer, I had started out with the name Double Dollar Brewing Co., but seriously, that wasn’t a marketable name, and so, Serious Brewing was born. We started calling Howes Cave our home in the spring of 2016, renovating the old KPI Screen Printing facility and creating a world-class brewing facility that we cannot wait to show you.

Our Beer

We take pride in every batch. When we find a good recipe, we keep tweaking: changing a hop here, a grain there, until it’s something we’re proud to share.

Alco Oatmeal Milk Stout: This Milk Stout is based off of one of the first beers I brewed. This beer has hints of molasses, chocolate, and creamy sweetness from Milk Sugar.

Bine of My Existence IPA: Brewed with Ekuanot Hops and fermented with a Belgian yeast.

Running Red Coat: This originally started as a red ale but I doubled up some of the specialty grains on a batch, who says you can’t drink your mistakes? Were glad we did. I joke that the color is that of the backside of their britches when they high tailed it out of Saratoga!

Schoharie Burning: A Belgian Wheat beer so named after the burning of the wheat fields in the Schoharie Valley during the revolutionary war. This wheat beer is flavored with sweet orange peel, grains of paradise, and coriander. This beer has won us numerous awards as a home brewer and is sure to delight.

George the Inventor Porter: George was born in Central Bridge and invented many great things that changed the world. He invented the braking system for trains for starters. We wanted to use his last name but we received a nasty gram from a big company with the same name, but they don’t make beer and it passed the patent office.

Serious Blonde: A great Blonde Ale made with 100% NYS hops and grains.

Schoharie Caves Lager: Our Serious Blonde that has been lagered with a little less hops.

Serious Pale Ale: A sessionable Pale Ale with Sabro hops.

Apricot Pale Ale: Our Serious Pale Ale without the dry hopped addition and replaced with Apricot.

We also offer a rotating seasonal beer. Not a fan of beer? Try some of the other NYS products we offer! Check out our changing selections of NYS Wines, Ciders, Beers, and Distilled Spirits. Ever had Country Apple? Schoharie Sunrise? We offer the signature drinks of some of the hottest local distilleries.