Artist’s rendering shows the new Cooperstown Brewing Co. plant and Northern Eagle Beverage warehouse. Construction by Eastman Associates is expected to be complete by October 2015.
HAGER HOPS BREAKS GROUND
ON BREWERY IN WEST ONEONTA
A ceremonial ground breaking this afternoon started work on the new 82,000-square-foot building that will house the new Cooperstown Brewing Co. plant and Northern Eagle Beverage warehouse on Browne Street in West Oneonta. From left are Bryan Birdsall, sales manager; George Allen, president; Whit Hager, 9, next to his dad, Lou Hager Jr.; Matt Curley, general manager; Alicia Hager and her brother, Lou III, and Melissa Miosek, sales. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)Prior to the groundbreaking, Lou Hager Jr. brings the crowd up to date on plans by the affiliated companies, Northern Eagle Beverage and Hager Hops, to complete the hops-to-tap cycle in Otsego County. Hager is growing hops in Pierstown, processing them in Oneonta, drying them in Milford, then adding them into the brewing process for such Cooperstown Brewing favorites as Old Slugger beer. Seated n the foreground are, from left, Hager’s daughter Alicia and son Lou III, general manager Matt Curley, president George Allen and sales manager Bryan Birdsall. Seated three rows back is Hugh Henderson, a county IDA board member. Standing from left are Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood; Gordon B. Roberts executive Jon Hansen; aides to Senator Seward Doug Cannistra and Jeff Bishop; IDA President Sandy Mathes, COO Elizabeth Horvath and board chair Bob Hanft; Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller; Dennis Finn of the city Airport Commission; and county Rep. Janet Hurley Quackenbush.
“The Chief Uncas has become a local star on the river here. People love the preserved character, the Busch family history of the boat, the connection to Cooperstown and Otsego Lake as the headwaters of the Susquehanna, and its green boat heritage as a 112-year-old electric vessel,” Platts continued.…
COOPERSTOWN - Stanley Eckler Hall, husband, father and grandfather, passed away peacefully on May 20, 2024 at his home in Cooperstown, at the age of 90 years.
Born on January 10, 1934 to Wesley and Cynthia Hall, Stanley grew up in Milford, New York.
He would later return to his hometown, in his retirement, to found Cooperstown Brewing Company in 1995, known for its flagship beer “Old Slugger.”…
