FAQ

 

I am interested in getting some bottles for pick up, how does that work?

Our bottle shop is live on our website and you can place orders 7 days a week for pickup. When you place your order, indicate the day and time you wish to stop by the farm for pickup. For a direct link to the bottle shop, click HERE

We are holding orders for up to 3 weeks from the date of purchase for your convenenice. Order now and pickup later so you don’t miss out on any new styles we release!

Can i get your beers shipped directly to me?

Thanks to our partnership with Half Time Beverage (Poughkeepsie, NY) we can now offer some of our beers directly shipped to you! Here are the states they ship to: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, TX, VA, WA

To check out which styles they have available to ship, go to our homepage on their website located HERE

Are you open for drinking onsite?

Yes! Our hours and location are posted on our website here.

We have indoor and outdoor seating available. Outdoors, we have 14 picnic tables available, benches, and barrel table tops. Feel free to bring your own lawn chairs, picnic blankets, etc. for your comfort, if you desire.

Do you have public restrooms available?

We have one ADA compliant bathroom that is available to anyone visiting the farm. We also have port-a-potties outdoors for patrons to use from May to October. They are stocked with hand sanitizer and we have sanitizer available at different locations on the farm.

Is your location dog friendly?

We have a 25-acre farm so there is plenty of space for furry friends during the warm days when they can easily be outside. All dogs must remain on a lease and must be dog & kid friendly. Please be respectful and clean up after your pets.

Is your location kid friendly?

Of course! You are welcome to bring your children but please remember it is a working farm and not suitable for children to be unsupervised. We have friendly goats and chickens, with plenty of space to run around outside. We stock non-alcoholic sparkling ciders, cookies, popcorn, chips . . lots of consumable items for your little ones so they too can enjoy the visit. 

Do you have food at your location?

We now have NYS farm goods to build your own charcuterie plate - meats, cheeses, crackers, popcorn, chips… check out the full menu HERE

We typically have food trucks on Saturdays from May through October. We post the entire food truck schedule on our Calendar which you can find HERE

You are welcome to bring in your own food to the farm! There are many great local restaurants that you can pick up food from or have delivered directly to the farm. Here are a few suggestions:

  • Rossi's Deli - sandwiches, hot pasta, and amazing antipasto choices located only 3 miles from the farm (PICK UP & DELIVERY) http://www.rossideli.com/

  • Millhouse Brewing - wood fire pizza, house-made sausage, you can call ahead and pick up on your way to the farm, located on Mill Street off of 44/55 only 2.5 miles from the farm (PICK UP) https://www.millhousebrewing.com/

  • Joe Cristianos - pizza, sandwiches, baked pasta, all the good stuff, they deliver to the farm for us often (PICK UP & DELIVERY) https://www.joecristianospizza.com/

  • Haddad’s Middle Eastern - call ahead for pick up or have it delivered with GrubHub, they cook everything from scratch the right way so make sure you give 30 minutes notice for your order but it is well worth the wait! Call ahead at 845-849-0161 (PICK UP)

  • El Azteca Mexican Deli - delicious Mexican food, salsa & chips, tortilla soup, empanadas, you name it they do it well! Call ahead and pick up, they are on Main Street in PoK (PICK UP & DELIVERY) https://www.facebook.com/ElAztecaMexicanDeli

Where do your ingredients come from for all your beers?

All our beers have 100% NYS ingredient only and have only 100% since our inception in 2013. Here is a list of where we source our ingredients

Base malt:

  • Farmhouse Malthouse (Newark Valley, NY) 2013-2015;

  • Hudson Valley Malt (Germantown, NY) 2016-present

Specialty grains:

  • Stone House Farm (Hudson, NY)

  • NY Craft Malt (Batavia, NY)

Hops:

  • Gro-Moore Farms (Henrietta, NY)

  • Fowler Farms (Wolcott, NY)

  • Crooked Creek & NY Hop Guild (Addison, NY)

  • Plan Bee Farm Brewery (Poughkeepsie, NY) - 1000 hop rhizomes of cascades planted in 2015

Yeast:

  • All 100% wild yeast extracted from raw honey & honeycomb in our beehives on the farm. We coolship all our beers so there is spontaneous inoculation & ferment only in oak foeders.   

Extras:

  • Poughkeepsie Farm Project (Poughkeepsie, NY)

  • Rose Hill Orchard (Red Hook, NY)

  • Fresh Meadow Farms USDA Certified Organic (Middletown, NY)

  • Crown Maple Syrup (Dover Plains, NY)

  • Remsburger Honey & Maple (Pleasant Valley, NY)

  • Fishkill Farms (Fishkill, NY)

  • Mead Orchards (Tivoli, NY)

  • Bittner Singer Orchards (Appleton, NY)

  • Rexcroft (Athens, NY)

  • CurrentC Farm (Staatsburg, NY)

  • Plan Bee Farm Brewery (Poughkeepsie, NY) - we have a wild apple orchard, we planted a new orchard of Bartlett Pears, Golden Apricots, Montmorency Cherries; white, pink & red currants; strawberries; 11 varieties of peppers; variety of edible wild flowers (dandelions, rose hips, violets, elderflower, anise hyssop, wild carrot seed, etc.)

Non-edibles:

  • Labels are printed by Main Printing on Main Street in Poughkeepsie

  • All cleaning supplies for the brewery are made in NY by Finger Lakes Soap Company (Van Etten, NY)

  • Fermenters made by US Barrels - NY's oldest cooperage (Wilmington, NY); Foeder Crafters (St. Louis, MO)

  • Cooperage - Spirit Labs (Newburgh, NY); Hillrock Distillery (Ancram, NY); Prospero Winery (Pleasantville, NY)

  • Brewing system - Brewmation (Fishkill, NY)

I  am looking to purchase beers wholesale

If you would like to purchase directly from the farm and pick up your order, please email emily@planbeefarmbrewery.com for an updated wholesale list of 375mL and 750mL options.

We distribute our bottles through a few distributors. If you are looking to work with one of our distributors, you can find their information below:

  • NY - Craft Beer Guild

  • NYC - Union Beer Distributors

  • MA - Craft Collective

  • PA - Shangy’s Distribution

  • NC - Artisan Beverage

  • VA - Liquid Distro

  • ME - Central Distributors

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