Playing Make Believe

Make Believe Sour Farmhouse Barrels

Long before we opened the doors to Hudson Valley Brewery, before we installed our brewhouse or filled a can, we took on every opportunity we could to make beer. We leaned on the generosity of friends, we took over breweries, brewed long-distance collaborations, and set aside barrels of beer whenever we could. In a lot of ways though, it always felt like we were playing make believe.

All of that fueled our imaginations and opened our eyes to new ways we could approach our beers, and from that Make Believe was born. It was the first beer we ever made and it was a funky and complex blend of oak aged farmhouse ale and fresh, fruit-forward Double IPA. It took quite a while for us to fine tune the processes that go into balancing older mixed culture beer with young, freshly aromatic hoppy beer, but all the while we had a growing collection of barrels aging. And now we are are thrilled to finally introduce the fruit of that long labor. Make Believe is an Oak Aged Sour Farmhouse IPA that is a blend of one, two, three, and four year old farmhouse barrels and double-dryhopped Double IPA.

Make Believe | 7%

Oak Aged Sour Farmhouse IPA, and is blended from two parts - A double IPA hopped with Citra & Galaxy, and an Oak Aged Sour Farmhouse Ale blended from barrels aged 1-4 years.

Available now for curbside pickup
$24 per four-pack

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