Beautiful countryside breweries - what's yours?

[Gadjobrinus]

Back when I was insane enough to aspire to owning and operating a small brewery, I used to collect photos of British breweries in beautiful surroundings. Drawing from a few models including Hook Norton, I dreamily envisioned serving casks locally, with spent grains feeding pigs in their acorn woodlots and sheep in their meadow (this is before I knew anything about raising livestock).

Anyway, two, to get us started. St. Peter's in Suffolk.

Donnington's, Stow-in-the-Wold, Cotswolds

 

[day_trippr]

Gorgeous. How do they get their patrons to ever leave?

 

[MaxStout]

Well, this thread's done in one. Someone hit the lights on the way out.

Gonna be hard to post something that even comes close.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

@Gadjobrinus : excellent photos! thanks for sharing!

Well, this thread's done in one.

Gonna be hard to post something that even comes close.

West coast USA tap room sunset views would be an appropriate sub-topic....

 

[Airborneguy]

I suppose my best has been Ommegang. I heard it has changed, but when I visited in 2006-ish it was a fantastic Belgian-farmhouse inspired building on a beautiful plot of upstate NY land.

 

[jschein]

I suppose my best has been Ommegang. I heard it has changed, but when I visited in 2006-ish it was a fantastic Belgian-farmhouse inspired building on a beautiful plot of upstate NY land.

Ommegang is one of my favorites too!
They added a really nice cafe/taphouse, the views are still amazing.
They do some concerts with camping which sell out fast

 

[Gadjobrinus]

I've never been but would love to visit Ommegang. I'd thought it was on the site of a former chicken farm but just looking up their site now, it seems it was a former hop farm?

Gorgeous. Upstate generally is really special. I used to live in the Berkshires (as a Shakespearean actor with Shakespeare & Company, of all things), and forays up to upstate were always so beautiful.

 

[jschein]

Yes hop farm, NY was the biggest producer of hops in the US until some killer fungus killed the industry. But it’s back!

 

[Gadjobrinus]

Yes hop farm, NY was the biggest producer of hops in the US until some killer fungus killed the industry. But it’s back!

That's awesome and so much more fitting than "converted chicken farm." No idea where I got that. And also wasn't aware NY hop farming has come back. If I'm remembering right downy mildew pushed the industry farther and farther west but that eventually it would run itself out. Sounds like that's already happened/happening? Shows how out of the loop I've been. Great to hear.

 

[Airborneguy]

My uncle has a cabin about 30 minutes from Ommegang. Maybe next spring while I'm up there I'll find time to visit again.

 

[Agent]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right?
I lost my originals, so I snagged a few from the web of Ten Sleep Brewing in Ten Sleep, WY.


When I visited, one of the summer helpers was a free spirit who did a little rock climbing in the back on when he wasn't on the clock.

 

[Gadjobrinus]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right?
I lost my originals, so I snagged a few from the web of Ten Sleep Brewing in Ten Sleep, WY.
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When I visited, one of the summer helpers was a free spirit who did a little rock climbing in the back on when he wasn't on the clock.

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It is in the eye of the beholder, and I'll tell you, my son and I are preparing for a western hunt in 2-3 years. Grew up in CA but spent time in CO and UT, and love the west.