A maltier pale ale with large amounts of Columbus and Chinook hops. The citrus character of the hops are backed up by fruit esters from a Belgian yeast strain.

Belgian yeast emitting spice and fruit characteristics marries well with the addition of lots of eye malt and German malts.

Brewed with heavy doses of Cascade, Chinook, Columbus, and Centennial hops. Dry hopped twice to produce a big hop aroma

A raspberry wheat beer with just the perfect blend of hops and slight undertones of banana. ABV 7%

Rare Vos is flemmish for "Sly Fox," and the name of one of Brussels’ great cafes. It has a sweetly fruity malt character and yeasty spiciness.

A traditional Belgian-style wheat ale with whispers of sweet orange and a touch of tart lemon. Soft and seductive.

A beer with a very creamy, almost silky texture. This beer is black to the point of being opaque, with a full, rich body and pleasant smokiness from the load of roasted malt in the grain bill. The hops take a backseat in this beer, but they offer enough bitterness to offset the malt sweetness.

An intensely flavor filled full-bodied dark strong ale. Full of roast, chocolate and dark malt flavor. A rich and complex aroma meets a sweet warming sensation for your taste buds. A moderate hop bill delivers a balance to what is already an intense flavor profile. Although a rather intense beer the ingredients meld together for a very enjoyable Imperial Stout.

A malty robust Red Ale with proper support from Estate Cascade, Nugget and Chinook hops.

An American Brown Ale, light malt, roast and chocolate flavor with a clean bitter finish. Brewed with our Nugget hops. (6.0% ABV)

Gluten free beer with local honey and apricots

Bright, hop forward modern-styled American Pale Ale. Single dry-hopped with a blend of Pacific Northwest hops.

Firehouse Pale Ale was inspired by the 1914 Cortland Firehouse which is located across the road from the brewery. The beer pours a gold color with a frothy white head with a noticable Cascade hop aroma. The taste is smooth and slightly malty, with just enough hop flavors to make it light and clean. A great everyday drinking Pale Ale.

A traditional American Lager - Like swimming naked on a hot August night, this beer refreshes - without being weighted down by calories or hop bitterness.

Empire Cream Ale is carbonated with nitrogen so it cascades as it pours. This golden pub style ale has an extremely smooth mouthfeel, and a crisp hop flavor. 5.8% ABV

Empire Amber Ale is an English/American hybrid, made with English malts and American hops. It is clean and refined, with just the right balance between malt sweetness and hop bitterness. 5.5% ABV

A light, all purpose beer, fine with most food, this beer delivers fresh, handmade flavor without overloading the senses. Winner of 3 GABF Gold medals, one GABF Bronze medal and one Bronze World Beer Cup medal.

An all-day IPA naturally brewed with a complex array of malts, grains and hops. Balanced for optimal aromatics and a clean finish. The perfect reward for an honest day’s work and the ultimate companion to celebrate life’s simple pleasures.

This bold, imperial brown ale gets its body from a team of malts including Caramel malt for sweetness, flaked barley for dense foam, a bit of Chocolate malt for its deep color and Aromatic and Munich malts to add even more depth. German and Perle hops add a touch of bitterness to balance the malty sweetness. The addition of rich Sumatra coffee takes this perfectly balanced imperial brown ale to a decadent level.

Hoppy, citrusy, with notes of passion fruit and other tropical fruits. An “East Coast” style IPA, with an emphasis on the taste and aroma of the hops, not the bitterness. A taste explosion in your mouth.

When we think of a beer brewed for celebration, we think Oktoberfest. Genesee Oktoberfest is a recipe inspired by centuries of brewing and our proud German heritage. Our Oktoberfest is a deep-golden lager, big on malt flavor and complimented by subtle herbal notes of noble hops. We hope this beer gives you good reason to raise a stein and celebrate. Prost!

A rich and malty, deep-garnet colored ale with a surprisingly smooth body.

A complex IPA that delivers on many levels. The simplicity of the grain bill allows the hops to really shine. Tropical fruits and lemon on the nose with a spicy finish that tickles your taste buds.

A German-style hefeweizen brewed with 100% NY State grown ingredients. High wheat content (50%) imparts a characteristic cereal note, telltale haze & body. Refreshing apricot, banana & spice notes combine to make this a perfect summer brew.

This brew represents years of tireless tweaking and testing of our recipe going all the way back to our home-brew days. The name is a reference to the blight that helped to wipe out the once thriving hops farms in Central NY, the recent resurgence of hops growing in NY State, and the many folks and organizations working hard to research blight resistant hops varieties bred to grow specifically in the great State of NY.  Potent, with aromas of tropical fruit and melon, and mouthwatering pine and gooseberry flavors. Medium to light bodied with a bitter semi-dry finish.

Bold & malty, yet sessionably mild, her crisp finish will leave your palate begging for more.

Guinness is an Irish dry stout. A light-bodied stout that is enjoyably smooth and very easy to drink.

All light vanishes here. The pitch-black color and cocoa-espresso aroma and flavor are derived from roasted barley while the complexity is enhanced by the strength of this foreign-style stout.

This beer is made with 100% New York grown ingredients. Barley from Omara Farm in Canastota, basswood honey from Morse Mills in Moravia and Tompkins County hops. This ale is light in color with a mellow honey flavor and a rich body.

Maris otter malt, Fuggles hops and a British yeast are used in this classic English style pale ale. More malty, less hoppy and stronger than an American pale with a fruity taste delivered by the yeast. Traditional pale ales like this have been served in European pubs for centuries.

This style of beer is classified in the "American India Pale Ale" category. The focus is obviously on the hops used during the brewing process. Our version has a citrus/fruity aroma with a big citrus taste and bitter hop finish.

An easy-drinking wheat beer is light in color and body...perfect for the warmer weather. In crafting this fine ale, we add many pounds of real apricot fruit to create a "secondary fermentation." This creates a gentle wheat beer with just a hint of apricot flavor in the finish. A very drinkable, mildly fruity ale.

Piney at the nose, Creeker is by no means an ordinary double IPA. Creeker is all hops with little malt body. Enjoy the intense citrus flavor with tropical notes, floral aroma & full body mouthfeel.

Our newest India Pale Ale brewed with late additions of Belma, El Dorado, and Mosaic resulting in a medium bodied IPA with juicy fruit, strawberry, earthy and piney notes finishing resinous and dry.

Traditional Kolsch style.

The latest New England Syle IPA from Middle Ages.

This version of our imperial stout Dragonslayer has been aged in Bourbon Barrels for over 6 months.

A unique, high alcohol wheat beer spiced with coriander and orange peel.

Inspired by Recess' Cold Brew Coffee, this light bodied stout has a nice coffee aroma with a smooth roast flavor.

Dark and robust brewed in the style of a American strong ale, full bodied and screaming with hops.

Rum Barrel aged Porter w/vanilla beans and toasted coconut. Chocolate and sugary rum spice balanced out with layers of toasted coconut and vanilla.

refreshing, slightly spicy, lemons and pineapples

Saranac Octoberfest is a med-bodied, copper colored lager. It's rich, malty taste is subtly balanced by Saaz and Tettnang hops. The beer is aged slowly in the tradition of the Octoberfest beers of Munich.

THE REDEFINITION OF THE SESSION IPA. Orange zest, pine resin and tropical lupulin beauty that easily rivals much bigger IPAs, with a substantially full, soft malt body that compliments but doesn’t interfere with the hop attack. When you want the push, weight, and attack of a much heavier (I)IPA but need to be productive tomorrow – One of our proudest accomplishments.

An explosively unfiltered IPA, golden in color. Bursting with citrus flavor that balances with a touch of bitterness on the finish.

Harvest Ale is our celebration of the changing weather and the sowing of hops and barley that will be used in our upcoming brews. We usher in the fall with a classic English style Extra Special Bitter of the highest order. Deep ruby in color with an even deeper hop flavor… in fact, we throw fresh English hops into every brewing vessel, then dry hop after fermentation to impart a zesty kick. This beer has real hop character that mingles with fresh malted barley for an experience that will make you wish it were fall year ‘round.

We brewed Salted Caramel to pay tribute to one of our favorite sweets. In the same vein as salted caramel chocolates and truffles, our Salted Caramel stout is the perfect balance of sweet decadence and savory salt. Perfect alone, or enjoyed as a float.

Imperial stout brewed with pumpkins Warlock is brewed to enchant your palate on its own and also to counterpoint our Imperial Ale, Pumking. Make your own black magic by carefully pouring this Imperial Stout into a goblet. Dark and mysterious, the Blackwater Series is serious about high gravity. Reanimate your senses with Warlock’s huge roasted malt character, moderate carbonation and spicy pumpkin pie aroma.

Stella Artois is one of the world’s best-selling beers and is enjoyed in more than 80 countries. Its full, characteristic flavour and high quality is assured through a superior brewing process and by using the finest ingredients available.

Our all-important, hop-driven quest to deliver the most devastatingly fresh IPA on the planet facilitated a paradigm shift in 2012 with the launch of Stone Enjoy By IPA. Not only did we brew this beer with more than 10 different hops, we brewed it specifically NOT to last. Acclaimed for its groundbreakingly short shelf life, this intense double IPA brought forth a whole new concept of what constitutes “fresh” — guaranteeing fans the ultimate level of hoppiness.

Like your hazy, juicy, hoppy IPA's with full mouthfeel and low bitterness? I've got your Hazy Hoppy Nonsense right here for ya!

A heavily smoked, rich porter.

This beer is a revival of a beer style that prior to prohibition was one of the most popular beers in America: Kentucky Common ale. It has a dark color with a decent hint of hops (22 IBUs), but with a light, easy drinking and flavorful taste.

There are few beers out there that are both so simple yet so delicate as a light lager. We used NYS Malted Barley for this to show our love for and the quality of NYS growers and maltsters. This light, refreshing beer is meant to be drank out on a boat, in the sun, on the beach, or on the porch. Enjoy the outdoors with friends and family for this one.

Mosaic, Chinook, Centennial. Tropical, resiny, smooth. Maybe a little too smooth.