{"id":15547,"date":"2014-08-13T17:39:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/2014\/08\/common-roots-brewery-opening-soon.html"},"modified":"2014-08-13T17:39:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T21:39:37","slug":"common-roots-brewery-opening-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/2014\/08\/common-roots-brewery-opening-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Roots Brewery Opening Soon, To Brew Traditional And Specialty Beers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This building on Route 9 in South Glens Falls is soon to become Common Roots Brewing Co., run by the father and son business team of Bert (father) and Christian Weber\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

By Jill Nagy<\/p>\n

Christian Weber is ready to start up a big,
\n620-gallon, brewing system at Common Roots
\nBrewing Co. in South Glens Falls.<\/p>\n

The opening comes after months of trial
\nbrews with a pilot system one-twentieth
\nthe size, extensive renovations to convert a
\nformer warehouse into a brewery and tasting
\nroom, and all the other details involved in
\ngetting a new business started.<\/p>\n

Weber, the head brewer, and his father
\nand business partner, Bert Weber, are just
\nwaiting for licenses to arrive to schedule a
\nsoft opening and, soon after that, a grand
\nopening.
\nCommon Roots plans to include some
\nbarrel-aged beers in its mix of traditional
\nand specialty brews. The beers will be conditioned
\nin used barrels purchased from vineyards
\nand distilleries that were no longer
\nable to use them for their original purpose.<\/p>\n

Bourbon barrels, for example, will come
\nfrom two nearby distilleries. Those barrels
\ncan only be used once to age bourbon, said
\nWeber. They can be used again to produce
\na bourbon-tinged beer; then again for beers
\nwith less of a hint of bourbon or for “wild
\nbeer,” made using wild yeasts and bacteria.
\nIn the end, some of the barrels may be
\ndismantled to become handles on the beer
\ntaps, he said.<\/p>\n

New York state’s recently-adopted Craft
\nBeer Act, which will allow Common Roots to
\nserve beer by the glass in the tasting room,
\nis “very exciting and a game changer for how
\nwe operate that space,” Weber said.<\/p>\n

Instead of a space to sample by the sip and
\npurchase to take out, “the tasting room will
\nbe a welcoming space for beer enthusiasts
\nand community members to hang out and
\nenjoy a variety of Common Roots beers, fill
\ngrowlers, and purchase bottled beer and
\nbrewery merchandise,” he said.<\/p>\n

Promotional merchandise, including beer
\nglasses and Common Roots hoodies, will be
\non sale, but there will be no food available.
\nThe exact mix of beers remains a closelyheld
\nsecret and will not be made public until
\nthe brewery opens, Weber said, probably in
\nlate August or early September.<\/p>\n

“Our beer portfolio is clearly something
\nwe are most proud of. After all, brewing
\ngreat beer is the reason we are opening this
\nbrewery in the first place. It is also the one
\ncard we are playing close to the chest until
\nthe soft opening,” he said.<\/p>\n

Common Roots joins a growing number of
\ncraft breweries in the Saratoga and Glens
\nFalls area. It will become one of a dozen or
\nso on a new Adirondack Craft Beverage Tour
\ndevised by the Adirondack Regional Chamber
\nof Commerce that includes breweries,
\npubs, distilleries, and wineries in Saratoga,
\nWarren and Washington counties.<\/p>\n

The hope is that the introduction of “brew
\ntourism” will encourage visits to the area at
\nall times of the year, beyond the traditional
\nsummer season. Organized in early July, the
\nChamber has been distributing maps for
\nself-guided tours and provides information
\non its website, www.adirondackchamber.org.<\/p>\n

“Upstate New York is already on the
\ntrajectory to be a craft beer destination,”
\nWeber said. “The Saratoga\/Glens Falls region
\nis rich in cultural amenities and the craft
\nbeer community is increasingly becoming a
\npart of that mix. Common Roots is excited
\nto join the currently established breweries
\nto help make that possible.”<\/p>\n

The Webers, father and son, brewed their
\nfirst batches of beer at home in 2005 and
\ncontinued as home brewers.<\/p>\n

As a graduate student in New Hampshire,
\nChristian Weber was an apprentice brewer
\nat White Birch Brewing in Hooksett, N.H.<\/p>\n

Although persuaded by his New Hampshire
\nexperience that the craft beer industry was
\nhis destiny, he completed his degree and,
\nuntil last January, was executive director
\nof the Lake Placid Land Conservancy. His
\nfather is a retired BOCES horticulture and
\nlandscape design teacher and active with
\nCornell Cooperative Extension’s community
\ngardens program.<\/p>\n

Raw materials for the beers–grains,
\nhops and yeast–will come from a variety
\nof sources. They will use locally sourced
\nproducts when they are available. For now,
\nhowever, the grains come form all over and
\nthe hops, mostly from Washington state.
\nMuch of the yeast will come from an in-house
\nyeast laboratory.<\/p>\n

“Yeast is amazing,” Weber said. As beer
\nbrews, the amount of yeast increases rather
\nthan getting used up. Different strains produce
\ndifferent tasting beers and they will
\nbe sorted and propagated in the Common
\nRoots laboratory.<\/p>\n

Common Roots is located at 58 Saratoga
\nAve. (Route 9) in South Glens Falls, in the
\nformer warehouse of an overhead door company.
\nThe telephone number is 321-4735 and
\nits website is www.commonrootsbrewing.com. Plans are for the brewery and tasting
\nroom to be open seven days a week but hours
\nhave not yet been determined.<\/p>\n

Photo by Tyler LaPan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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