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February 10, 2020
Matt Story of Story's Farms accepting award for Best Farm Stand-Melanie Lekocevic for The Daily Mail and Hudson Valley 360

County celebrates its very best

CATSKILL — Local residents spent months nominating and voting for their favorite businesses and services in the second annual Best of Greene County competition. On Friday, […]
November 14, 2019

A guide to Hudson Valley breweries, wineries, cideries & distilleries

The Hudson Valley is one of the oldest alcohol-producing areas of the country. Dutch settlers and patrician farmers, free of New England’s Puritan restrictions, brewed, distilled […]
June 20, 2019
Crossroads Brewing Company Athens Brewpub

Dine at These Hudson Valley Brew Pubs

Beer and food — need we say more? READ MORE
January 25, 2019
Beers Photo by Brooklyn DoubleWide

Killer Nachos, Wings + Beer at the Crossroads Athens Brewpub

Everything I want from a weekend in the Catskills is right here at Crossroads Brewing Company’s Athens Brewpub. I want to walk around a quaint little […]
January 22, 2019
Customers enjoying a flight at the Athens BrewpubPhoto Credit: Follow Your Own Wild

Hudson, NY – Cozy Birthday Weekend Getaway

First Blogpost of 2019 here we go!! This year for my birthday celebration (Dec 27),  I wanted to go on  a little getaway upstate with my […]
July 24, 2018
Photo by John Garay for Upstate House

Your Guide to Athens, NY—A Greene County Gem

Perched on the eastern edge of Greene County, on the western banks of the Hudson River—just across the waterway from the much-buzzier enclave at Hudson—is the […]
April 24, 2018
Route 6

Hudson Valley beer is a taste of New York State

  Just an hour north of New York City, new breweries are buzzing along the scenic Hudson River fueled by the Hudson Valley’s agricultural bounty. “Five […]
August 28, 2017
Beers Sitting on Kegs

Crossroads Brewery Opens Its Second Location

These days, no Hudson Valley town or village is considered truly viable unless it has its own brewery. Catskill was in that category until this summer, […]
June 5, 2017
Kenny Landin and Janine Bennett at the tasting room

Crossroads named best brewery in Hudson Valley

Crossroads Brewing Co. in Athens, which hasn’t even opened its bar yet, was named the Best Craft Brewery in the Hudson Valley over the weekend at […]
April 28, 2017
Athens Brewpub Bar

Local Ingredients and Rock-and-roll Soul

In the quiet town of Athens, NY, just a few blocks from the Hudson River, Crossroads Brewery Company is turning up the volume to 11, appropriately […]
March 7, 2017
Brooks Opera House around 2010

At long last, a dream is on tap

ATHENS — A longtime dream came true two weeks ago for Ken Landin and Janine Bennett. That is when the beer started flowing out of the tap at the Crossroads […]
January 20, 2017
Then and Now comparison of our Athens Location

Where the Heart Is

Business partners Janine Bennett and Ken Landin did not take a direct path to where they are now. Their story is a winding one. It starts […]