Abandon Brewing Company - Penn Yan, NY

 

Our last stop on Day 2 of the Finger Lakes Brewery Tour was at Abandon Brewing. When you roll up, you just see a massive red barn-like building.  Lots of parking and even though the place closed in an hour it seemed like a lot of cars.

Once you enter you see some big brew tanks and an empty room..keep walking and you enter the taproom which has a U shaped bar, a few picnic tables and that's about it.  One bartender on a Thursday and the place was swamped. 

They offer samplers of 4 beers for $10...except their sampler holders hold 6 beers? May want to rethink that and make it 6 beers. But we got stuck behind a girl ordering what felt like 20 samplers. The bartender kept apologizing for the wait so I couldn't get too upset.  After about 15-20 minutes of waiting we got our beers and went outside to the patio where they have two giant round picnic tables overlooking a great view.

The beers weren't bad.  Nothing to write home about. The Farmhouse IPA was good...one of the better IPAs of the trip. The porter would have been my close second choice here.

All in all it was a nice place, but needs more tables, better service and compared to the other breweries we went to around them it was a little pricey. Worth checking out though if you're in the area...abandonbrewing.com/

Keuka Brewing Company - Hammondsport, NY

 Not too far from Finger Lakes Beer Company was our next stop, Keuka Brewing Company. Down a side road, tucked away this little place sneaks up on you quick. Another place with no big frills outside and a pretty chill look to it.

Unfortunately for us, we arrived as there was a 20 person bachlerotte party inside all talking at once. The inside isn't very big with really no seating and just a very long L shaped bar.  We did get waited on rather quickly.  We did a sampler of 4 beers, the blueberry wheat was probably the stand out.  They sell their IPA in bottles and the guy was nice enough to pop one open to let me try also.  The IPA wasn't bad at all, nothing shockingly good but not horrible. Had not been for the 20 nonstop talking drunk ladies, it may have been a better experience but we got out of there quick.

Good service, nice guys, and not bad beer..they also seem to make a lot of small batches so you never know what you'll see..check them out..www.keukabrewingcompany.com/

Finger Lakes Beer Company - Hammondsport, NY

Our 4th stop on Day 2 of the Finger Lakes Brewery Tour was the Finger Lakes Beer Company. We drove right past it, but there is a good sized sign out there not sure how we missed it.  Located not quite on the water, this place isn't a big frills type of place.  Very basic, upon entering you walk down a small hallway and enter the tasting room. 

For a small fee you got to taste all the beers.  Service was good. Unfortunately the beers were not.  This was also in my bottom 3 for all around beer taste on the trip along with Market Street and Wagner. The IPA had no hop taste to it at all and was one of the more unique tasting IPAs I've ever had...not in a good way.

The one thing I will give them is their watermelon beer was quite good.  We grabbed a 22oz on the way out of that.  Feel free the check them out, but for me it was a miss...fingerlakesbeercompany.com/ ‎