This is for you Roberto...

[Innkeeper]

At Roberto's suggestion we not only tried it, but visited their brewery on a trip to Cooperstown. It is more like visiting a winery than a beer platz. It is beautiful to begin with, and the tour is fascinating. Specifically, the way they flavor the different brews, the way they reintroduce yeast at the end of the process (and use special bottles to hold the resulting pressure), and the way they age their products before releasing them, is all very unbrewery like.

When most people think of Cooperstown, they think of baseball, and there's nothing wrong with that. Surely the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a must stop, as is another interesting place called the Farmer's Museum. But, my idea of nice time is to visit the Fenimore Cooper House on the shore of Lake Otsego, which is very interesting in itself, and to have lunch on their veranda facing the lake. When we did we had baked Brie in crust, and washed it down with bottles of Ommegang Hennepin. It hardly gets any better.