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Article: The Art in Brewing.
- Article from:
- Modern Brewery Age
- Article date:
- May 8, 2000
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Aesthetics are part of the brew at Ommegang.
Brewery Ommegang is a gem of a Belgian farmhouse brewery, making a line of extraordinary, authentic Belgian beers. It is housed in a classic Belgian farm complex, at the base of the rolling hills of a former hop farm. On arrival before the gates, one is transported for a moment into rural Europe. Unaccountably, this paragon among Belgian breweries is located in Cooperstown, New York, that most American of small towns.
Why Cooperstown? "My husband Don was a pitcher in college," says co-founder Wendy Littlefield, "so for his 30th birthday we came out to baseball fantasy camp in Cooperstown. We fell in love with ...