Breweries (Beer)My favorite beer, Rusty Chain, is made by Flying Bison on Ontario Street in Buffalo. I rarely drank much beer, but upon sampling this at a Parkside beer tasting event...I was hooked!
Stop by to fill up your growler at Community Beer Works on Lafayette. Or try one of the newest Buffalo beers, which just hit the market: New Buffalo Brewing. Dare to try some Buffalove flavors: loganberry wit, Sponge Candy Stout....visit the Resurgence Brewery on Niagara Street. It seems as though breweries in Buffalo are popping up everywhere.
Breweries (Ciders)
Our region has a lot of apple trees. So let's put them to good use - hard cider! There are actually over 20 cider breweries in the area (and growing). So far, I have only tried two: Blackbird ciders & McKenzie's.
Wineries
New York state has the second largest wine production in the US, next to California. In Buffalo, we have the Niagara Wine Trail to the north and Lake Erie Wine Country to the south. Cross over the Canadian border and you have Niagara on the Lake's wine trail. Travel a couple more hours east for the finger lake wine region. Fairly unique to our general region is the ice wine, a sweet dessert wine made from frozen grapes. We are also known for catawba grapes. What was once mainly sweet wines, we are seeing a growth in drier wines too.
Distilleries
I was one of those that stood in line and luckily obtained two bottles of Lockhouse Distillery's vodka the weeks before Christmas 2013. This was the first distillery to open in Buffalo since prohibition! They used the concord grapes from our wine region, as opposed to the typical grains.On 4th of July, BFLO Distilling Company released there first batch of The One Foot Cock Bourbon Whiskey.
Based on all this info, I think Buffalo is becoming self-sufficient in regards to sustaining our habits!
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