Our Mission

At Plan Bee Farm Brewery our mission is to brew 100% New York State ingredient beer. We source all our ingredients from the state of New York with many grown on site. Our beers go from ground to glass within measurable feet of their origins. Our goal is to work with local businesses to produce a delicious product for the community we serve.

At Plan Bee Farm Brewery, our beers are created by the limitation of local resources. From the yeast we cultivate from our honey comb, to the grain and hops in our fields, if it isn’t in our community it doesn’t enter our beer.

Today, brewers talk about ‘local’ craft beer while sourcing ingredients from around the world. At Plan Bee Farm Brewery, we define ‘local’ as that which grows in New York State, if not on our farm. Today, every ingredient in Barn Beer — our flagship wild farmhouse ale — was grown on this farm or sourced within New York State. That's not a goal. It's how we brew

Our Family

Plan Bee Farm Brewery was born through the creativity and experience of Emily and Evan Watson. They moved to New York City in 2007 after Evan signed a recording contract. After several years of sharing music around the nation, Evan decided he was ready for a new challenge.

From Emily’s experience growing up on a farm in Ohio to working in an environmental non-profit for the Hudson River and Evan working several years at the esteemed Captain Lawrence, they were ready to marry their experience. In 2013, Emily and Evan moved north to Fishkill, NY to a small farm and began working on their dream of a 100% sustainable brewery.

In 2015, Plan Bee Farm Brewery moved to a 25-acre farm in Poughkeepsie, NY. The new location features an original 3-story 1830's barn which fully renovated houses their stainless steel 10BBL steam-fire brewhouse, local HV open oak fermenters, coolship, and a barrel aged sanctuary for wild, 100% NY ingredient farmhouse & sour beers tied directly to the farm & the Hudson Valley. 

Today, Plan Bee centers on one beer: Barn Beer. A wild farmhouse ale that varies batch to batch within a recognizable range — each bottle a reflection of the season and the farm that produced it. The bees are still here. So are the goats, the chickens, the coolship, and the oak fermenters. This is still a working farm. The beer is how we share it.