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10 AUGUST 13, 2018 | VOL. 54, No. 33
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BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com
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ollow Underhill Road off Innis Avenue in the town of Poughkeepsie long enough and the pavement eventually gives way to dirt. Keep going, and you’ll see the sign: “Farm Fresh Beer.” If it’s a weekend, you can travel past rows of corn, possibly a wandering chicken, and find Evan and Emily Watson, the husband-wife team behind Plan Bee Farm Brewery, which has been selling beer made solely from New York ingredients since 2013. In that time, the brewery has made a name for itself,
serving mostly wild and sour farmhouse ales that start from a yeast made with honey harvested on the property. The Business Journal visited the Plan Bee farm 24 hours before the grand opening of the brewery’s new tasting room — a painstakingly restored 1830s wooden barn with a bar, a 10-barrel brewing house and a subterranean cooling cellar that houses barrels for aging beers. Over the brewery’s signature Barn Beer — a wild ale that’s part tart, part funky — Evan tells the story that took him from a career in music to brewing beer in the Hudson Valley. Watson, originally from » BEER
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Evan Watson pours Barn Beer, Plan Bee Farm Brewery’s signature wild ale, inside his new tasting room in the town of Poughkeepsie. Photo by Bob Rozycki.
Frustrated Port Chester board says United Hospital sale ‘reasonably imminent’ BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com
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he Port Chester village board said the sale of the former United Hospital site may be “reasonably imminent,” or at least it better be. The village’s Board of Trustees gave an update on the sale pro-
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cess for the blighted property at its Aug. 6 meeting. Starwood Capital Group received a zoning change last spring that cleared the way for a $450 million project that promised to bring new residents, workers and shoppers to the abandoned hospital site on Boston Post Road. But those plans have been on hold. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based
company told the village board last September that it would instead sell the property. Trustee Frank Ferrara, who is also chairman of the Port Chester Industrial Development Agency (IDA), said he spoke with a Starwood representative the morning of Aug. 6 who said an agreement for the sale of » PORT CHESTER
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