Tales from the 42nd Parallel.
A look into life on the 42nd Parallel featuring stories, photo essays, brewing education, short films and more.
Explore the 42nd:
Full Circle Fest 2018
Reflecting on another Full Circle Festival. From Farm, To Pint, To Plate. There is something so special about a community coming together to celebrate the Farm to Pint culture here in Western New York. We thank you all for coming to the 3rd Annual Full Circle Fest here at 42 North Brewing Company! We would especially like to thank our fellow local breweries for bringing their knowledge and beer to share with our guests, Gabor for taking our spent grain and feeding all of his animals, and ...
Adirondack Barrel Fest
Every year we venture to Lake George in the Adirondacks to showcase our barrel-aged beer at the Adirondack Barrel Fest. The gracious hosts, Adirondack Brewery, bring 50 plus breweries together to sample a huge selection of barrel-aged aged beer to the public... and share a little between themselves. We get to spend the weekend in the beautiful mountains overlooking Lake George, so we're always stoked to go back.
Behind the Brew: The Story of the Oatmeal Cookie Brown Ale
For it’s third year in a row, the autumn-inspired Oatmeal Cookie Brown Ale will return to the 42 North Taproom. This is the story of its creation, inspiration and partnerships. The brew has grown over the last few years to be a fan favorite fall brew prompting many to head to the 42 North Taproom in search of the brew’s vanilla, raisin, lightly toasted malt flavors. Beer lovers will also be able to find the Oatmeal Cookie Brown Ale at their favorite craft beer bars and restaurants in ...
Farm to Pint: Harvesting Hops on the 42nd Parallel
East Aurora, NY's 42 North Brewing company teams up with local hop farmers to produce a unique 'wet-hop' beer for the fall! Our search never ends for the finest local ingredients to brew our beers. The day at the farm was hard work, but that's what makes a good beer.
Location
25 Pine Street
East Aurora, NY 14052
716-805-7500
Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday-Thursday: 4pm-11pm
Friday & Saturday: 12pm - 12am
Sunday: 11am- 8pm
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Behind the Brew: The Legend of the Maple Porter
42 North takes you behind the scenes of the Maple Porter, a beer with generations of local tradition. We head to the woods of East Aurora with a few locals and friends of the brewery to brew between the trees.
Location
25 Pine Street
East Aurora, NY 14052
716-805-7500
Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday-Thursday: 4pm-11pm
Friday & Saturday: 12pm - 12am
Sunday: 11am- 8pm
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42 North x Roycroft: Handcrafted Locally
We would like to thank Thomas Pafk, Amanda Larkowski, and the entire Roycroft Association for not only making this video possible, but also for making our little town of East Aurora, New York so special.
Take a look inside 42 Below and listen to what Chief Brewing Officer, Clay Keel and Brewery Lab Manager , Zack Taggart have to say about the importance of local, hand crafted product.
Location
25 Pine Street
East Aurora, NY 14052
716-805-7500
Hours
Monday: ...
Aged Hops
At 42 North, like most brewers, we take care to purchase fresh and well cared for hops for all of our beers and then keep them sealed and as cold as possible. The enemies of a hop’s volatile, flavor-rich hop oils and bittering acids are heat and oxygen. Recently we threw that book out the window and purchased 300lbs of 6 year-old hops to purposely age them warm and unsealed for the next year or more.
This is a step taken for brewing only a few beers around the world and results in ...
42 Below: Souring Methods #4
In the last blog post we described short-term mixed fermentations, here is a detailed description of long-term barrel-aged sours like those we will produce at 42 Below. Like short-term mixed fermentation beers, traditional barrel-aged sours include a variety of organisms that interact and continue developing from the fermenter into the barrel, and even into the bottle. As was true with both kettle sours and short-term mixed fermentation beers, the bulk of the fermentation is generally ...
42 Below: Souring Methods #2
As an alternative method to "kettle souring", discussed in our last post, the following can also be followed to quickly produce sour beers through short-term mixed fermentation
If you’ve stopped in the brewery this summer, it’s likely that you have seen some variation on our farmhouse sour series. This project started last fall with small-scale experiments, and has now been brewed several times on our 20 BBL system. Like a kettle sour, this beer is fermented with both ...
42 Below: Souring Methods #3
In the last Souring Methods blog post, we described kettle souring. This post will outline an alternative method to quickly produce sour beers through short-term mixed fermentation.
If you stopped by 42 North Brewing this summer, it’s likely that you have seen some variation on our farmhouse sour series. This project started last fall with small-scale experiments, and has now been brewed several times on our 20 BBL system. Like a kettle sour, this beer is fermented with both ...
42 Below: Souring Methods
The sign is up. The barrels are stacked. The beer is fermenting. When can we expect some beer? For better or worse, barrel-aged beer, and specifically barrel-aged sour beer, is an exercise in patience. While many of you reading this blog have probably tried some of our house sours, like Treaty Farmhouse and Island Farmhouse, the process for making those beers is a bit different from the process we will use the 42 Below beers. So, to start this adventure off right, we’re going to talk ...
Why a barrel house?
From nails to butter, our ancestors stored and shipped almost everything in barrels until the creation of steel drums, cardboard, and plastics. Cooperages operated all over the world for hundreds of years. Buffalo itself was home to many cooperages with one of the most prominent being the Forlorn Cooperage on Chicago Street. As a very popular commodity, especially throughout Europe, beer spent many centuries being transported in oak barrels by land and sea. Wood also became the ...