New Year's Cheers!

Happy New Year ! We've had a truly "Hoppy" 2008 at Brown's! Voted Best Craft Brewery at TAP NY, Debut of our 12oz. 6 pack IPA, Oatmeal Stout, Pale Ale and ESB, World Beer Cup Silver Medal for our Whiskey Porter and Metrolands Best Brewpub were just a few highlights from 2008.
Start the New Year of right with the "Club" - Club Brown's Mug Club Membership, the resolution you'll keep all year. Check out our Club Brown's gallery for all the great benefits.
Brown's Brewing Company is a proud member of Capital District Local First link (www.capitaldistrictlocalfirst.org) spread the LOCAL word!

Two Thumbs Up for OktoberFeast!

OktoberFEAST it was....Thanks to all our Club Brown's Friends who enjoyed a German Harvest Beer Dinner with us November 6th. Check out our gallery for more photos of the night and look for our 2009 Beer Dinner Series to be announced in January. Cheers!

OKTOBERFEST - Under The BIG TENT !

"You can't make great beer without a great water source and Troy's got the best," said Garry Brown at the kick off of Oktoberfest 2008. Cheers to all our friends including Troy's mayor Harry Tutunjian and County Legislator Kathy Jimino who were in attendance to support and recognize the Rensselaer Land Trust mission to protect the Rensselaer County water sources. Brown's Brewing Co. Taps were pouring with all of the beer proceeds from Oktoberfest going directly to the Rensselaer Land Trust.
More photos from the day in our gallery section.
To learn more about the Rensselaer Land Trust visit their website at www.rtlc.org

Trivia Wednesdays!

Come on in to Brown's Taproom Wednesday Nights for Trivia Night. Host Ryan West shouts out the Trivia from 9pm to 11pm. You gotta be in it to win it - cash prizes and goodies from Brown's every week.

Brown's & Rensselaer Land Trust Featured on WAMC Roundtable

August 1st- WAMC's Roundtable hosted Garrett Brown, of Brown's and John Middlebrooks,Executive Director of Rensselaer Land Trust, to join in a discussion about the great Tomhannock Reservoir and how Brown's has been active in donating a portion of proceeds from the sale of our Tomhannock Pilsner to the Rensselaer Land Trust. Thanks again to our good friends at WAMC for having us on and to John Middlebrooks for spreading the word so eloquently about the mission of the Rensselaer Land Trust in helping preserve Rensselaer County's wat...

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BEST BREW PUB Metroland BEST OF 2008

Brown's Brewing Co. voted Best Brew Pub in Metroland 2008 Best Of. Says Metroland, "Brown's Extra Special Bitter is hands-down the best ESB anywhere."
Pictured (left to right) Kelly Brown, Chef Tina Marie Clements and Head Brewer Peter Martin. Photo by Shannon DeCelle.

Brown's Wins Top Honors @TAP NY

April 26th, 2008-Brown's brought home the silver- no, not just at the World Beer Cup but at TAP NY too! We had the honor of being awarded "Best Craft Beer Brewery in the Hudson Valley" and were presented with the prestigious Matthew Vassar Brewers Cup. The award is named in honor of the famous Hudson Valley brewer and philanthropist who is known in the Hudson Valley and beyond as an innovator in the art of brewing. Thanks to all our friends out there who came to TAP NY and celebrated with us and all the other top notch brewers in New York State. Check out more photos from TAP NY in our gallery. "CHEERS!"

Brown's Whiskey Porter wins Silver at World Beer Cup!

The Brewers Association just released the World Beer Cup 2008 Winners and Brown's took home the Silver in Wood and Barrel aged Beer. For those of you not familiar with the World Beer Cup it is the "Olympics" of the Beer Judging World. Brewer Peter Martin says of the award, "It is a honor to have Brown's Whiskey Porter recognized in this way." Brown's Oatmeal Stout took the Gold home in the World Beer Cup 2004 competition.

Irish Ravioli? You Bet...check out our St. Paddy's Day Photo Gallery

Taproom @ Brown's Brewing Company 3.17.08-
Hope you didn't miss it...thanks to everyone for a great St. Patrick's Day! Our annual Blessing of the Bar (15th Year), thanks Ed from Terra Nova. Schenectady Pipe Band, as always-you rock and special thanks to Brown's awesome staff for "dishing out the best corn beef and cabbage this side of the pond."

Brown's Featured on Times Union Night Cam

Brown's Brewing Company's Garrett Brown goes into the brewhouse with T.U. reporter Kristi Gustafson. Check out the video from T.U. Night Cam. Be warned watching this video is guaranteed to make you thirsty. "Cheers!"
Link to video

Brown's Wins Best Wings

Chef Tina's secret Cherry-Raspberry BBQ sauce can't be beat! Brown's brings home the BEST WINGS award at Clothe-a-Child benefit held at RPI on Saturday, March 1st. For more photos from the day see our Gallery.

Brown's & Spamalot

A Knight in shining armor enjoying a Brown's Oatmeal Stout? Absolutely! Brown's brewer, Michael Beauchea (pictured next to knight) enjoys a laugh as "Spamalot" opened at Proctors Theatre January 9th. Brown's Brewing Company was invited to join in the festivities. We took our beer on road for an enjoyable Brown's Beer sampling and Round Table dinner. Thank you to our friends at Proctors- we are happy to report we returned to the brewery with some not too expensive shrubbery.

Troy brewer opens own bottling operation

Albany Business Review Reports on Our New Toys By Michael DeMasi The Business Review Excerpts from the Article: There was a lot of broken glass on the floor when Garrett Brown fired up his new beer-bottling machine in Troy earlier this month. But that's understandable. It was the first time the brewpub owner and his head brewer, Peter Martin, pushed the buttons on the machine in the basement of Brown's Brewing Co. "We're very much a hands-on group of brewer's,"Brown said. "You put in a foreign piece of equipment and we're all thumbs." Fourteen years after opening a brewpub and restaurant inside a renovated warehouse on the banks of the Hudson River,Brown has embarked on what has been his goal since getting into the business: selling bottles of locally brewed beer in stores. The first 120 cases of Brown's Pale Ale were shipped Nov. 7 by Tri Valley Beverage of Utica. The initial effort will target the more than 40 beverage centers in the region. Two other beer styles, Oatmeal Stout and India Pale Ale, will also be bottled. Ultimately, Brown plans to move the bottling equipment to an old paper mill on the Walloomsac River in North Hoosick (the mill is pictured on the bottle label). He's in the process of converting the mill-the former Flowmatic Valve Plant-into a brewery that would boost his production capacity to between 15,000 and 18,000 barrels annually....

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