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A Revolution in Beer Making

 The earliest European arrivals in America brewed beer.  Most pioneer homes brewed   their own.  Now, we tap into these traditions to bring you Revolution Brewhouse Beer!

Our story begins long ago and far away, at the beginning of the 18th Century, in what is now Bavaria.  The region was already long famous for beer making.  However, this was a time of religious persecution, invading armies, and the worst winter in a century.  Thousands of “Palantine refugees” flooded into Holland and England.  In 1710, England sent 3,000 of them to New York, where those who survived tried to eke out a living on the great landed estates along the Hudson River.  Among them was 22 year old Christopher Schneider.  A generation later, his son, Johannis Schneider, known to his neighbours as John Snyder, had a 300 acre farm on the great Rensselaer Estate.  Along with his house and barns, John Snyder built a brewhouse, and, using the traditions that Christopher and others had brought from Bavaria, he began brewing beers using ingredients he grew himself.  
When the American Revolution came along, Snyder was caught up in it, serving as a Captain of the local Militia unit that fought at the Battle of Bennington in August 1777.  Once the war was over, and the new country was born, Snyder was back on his farm and determined to enjoy the blessings of peace,  Among these was his devotion to brewing fine beers that would delight and refresh his friends and family.  It is this tradition we seek to recapture.  On the same farm where John Snyder once labored, using some of the same techniques and ingredients, we strive to produce authentic heritage beers, just as in those revolutionary days long ago.