We Brew

Our specialty is balanced beer, carefully composed, skillfully brewed. We have earned our accolades and awards through dedicated, hard work, continuous learning and improvement, and mastery of the craft of brewing. Many awards have graced the walls where Wayne has brewed over his 35-year professional career, including several for low-alcohol experimental and traditional styles. Early in his career, Wayne Burns mastered the specialty niche of creating strong beers that clock in above 10% Alcohol By Volume [ABV] – sometimes well over - beers where balance and complexity disguise alcohol content, beers with amazing character brand-new or aged for 1 - 25+ years. Wayne’s 22%ABV, 22+year old beer mellows in our cellar; Burns Family Artisan Ales has crafted many beers ready for aging in your cellar, as well. Our taplist reflects talent and experience with the best of the current season and provides choice among beer styles ranging from 2.3%abv - 23%abv.

Our recipes are developed from experience, trial and error and love of our trade. Wayne’s creative genius informs a litany of inspired recipes for Burns Family Artisan Ales. Laura Worley’s innate skill in recipe creation, honed from years as a chef plus her professional brewing experience, help craft the showcase of Burns Family Artisan Ales beers.

We brew small batches and take our time. A lot of grain, long brewdays, and much longer fermenting time, along with knowledgable tasting and consistent lab work goes into each beer. That’s before we put it into a barrel, if we make the choice that a beer would develop well in a certain type of barrel. We hand-bottle and hand-label the beers for market. We curate beers in our aging cellar. We staff our taproom. We get to know our customers and the specialty retailers who want to share our beer outside of the taproom. We listen, we redesign if necessary, and we educate.

We love what we do, and it shows.