It would seem that Logyard Brewery has ‘quiet’ closed. Without fully telling anyone, or making any grand announcements on Facebook or other social media platforms; it would seem that Logyard Brewing out of Kane, PA has closed. The small but popular brewery from Kane, PA had a strong following online and in person for most of their run. They also canned and distributed slightly throughout the state, as well as appeared at several brewfests and events throughout the state (such as the Lancaster Craft Beerfest, and others).

Exterior of the Logyard Brewery (photo courtesy of Logyard Brewery’s website)

Logyard Brewery Has Closed

Its safe to say they have closed at this point. They have not been open in a bit, and workers have told residents of Kane that they have closed. I reached out to them via e-mail and have received no reply (with a wait time of six days). Its sad to hear as Logyard Brewing made some fantastic beers and was such a great spot for the locales. I remember visiting it with my daughters back in August of 2019, and we absolutely loved it. My (now 15 years old) daughter Lily still raves about the beer cheese from them.

Located at 20 Wetmore Ave, Kane, PA 16735, Logyard Brewery is just a few doors down from Twisted Vine Beverages (another brewery in Kane, PA).

As I alluded to earlier in the article, Logyard Brewing Company hasn’t made an official announcement of their closing – but workers have told residents in Kane that they have closed. There is also talk in Facebook groups (particularly local Kane groups) that they are officially closed. With one particular post in the “Things Happening in Kane PA” group, by a Katie Johnson on November 13th:

On behalf of Royce Novosel-Johnson and Tim Robinson:

Well, folks, our time has come. Logyard is now closed. Thank you for your support in the past, thank you to our families and wonderful employees that have worked with us over the years, and thanks for the memories. –at Logyard Brewing.

So for all appearances they have closed. Such a shame to see such a wonderful, beautiful, small town, community oriented brewery close down. They had some tremendous beers, a great atmosphere, wonderful staff, and fantastic food. They will be greatly missed.

2024 has certainly been a rough year, with a lot of breweries closing. Pennsylvania alone has seen several breweries close, and we still have over a month to go in the year. I’m also not expecting 2025 to be much better for breweries and the craft brewing industry. But you never know, fingers crossed, hopefully I’ll be wrong!

More Articles About Logyard Brewery

The following is a list of other articles we’ve written about Logyard Brewery:

• The Trip – Day 1 (August 2019)
• Logyard Brewing Releasing Giggle Water
• Logyard Brewing Releasing TILF – West Coast IPA
• Brewer Interview: Sean Gorzynski (Logyard Brewing)
• Beer Review: Prognosticator Pils (Logyard Brewing)
• Logyard Brewing’s Prognosticator Pils is the Official Beer of Groundhog Day 2022

For More Information on Logyard Brewery

The following comes via Untappd.

Logyard Brewing is listed as a micro brewery from Kane, PA. They have 173 unique beers and over 60,000 ratings with a global average rating of 3.76 (as of 11.15.24). Their Untappd description is blank.

You can follow them on these social media platforms:

• Logyard Brewing – Official Website
• Logyard Brewing – Facebook
• Logyard Brewing – Instagram
• Logyard Brewing – Twitter
• Logyard Brewing – Untappd

So Thursday was certainly an interesting day for the restaurant, bar, brewery, …. well just the service industry in general in Pennsylvania. I was out walking my dog and doing yard work, and then I had to grab my daughter Lily to run to the Hershey Library before they closed (had a book that was due), and while at the library and on the road with her, all hell broke loose basically.

Had about a hundred texts from co-workers, people in the brewery industry, my parents, everyone wanting to know whats going on, or telling us whats going on, or saying ‘where do we stand now’ or ‘should we defy orders’ etc.

Needless to say, I get Lily back to her mom’s, I handle some of the texts I can, and head home. Reading the news then at home, I see we had until Friday night at midnight to do our inside dining. Drew invited me out to his place as he was starting a stream, I told him I needed to get something to eat, so I walked down to Rubber Soul, ate in – had their fantastic and delicious pierogies and their newest release – Soul Breaker (beer review coming soon), and then walked home. Then went over to Drew’s.

He was playing Super Mario RPG for the SNES on his stream – Knights of Nostalgia. So I joined him and drank along with him as he played. His brother in law from New York sent him a shipment of beers he tells me, a whole assortment of beers, so I check out his mini-fridge and “oh hot damn!” moment, the beer is stocked full of Other Half beer! His brother in law sent him Other Half. Drew loves his craft beer, but didn’t know just how great Other Half was. So we proceeded to drink four and share some others while he finished out his stream.

(Oh, and for those who were wondering – yes, Drew was able to beat Super Mario RPG for the stream. Sorry, spoiler alert.)

I finally left Drew’s at 5:20AM. Now that the mandates and restrictions, both me and Drew are effectively unemployed for the next three weeks. So, you will probably get a lot more streams, and a lot more content here on the blog. Enjoy!

Now, lets get to the beer review!

Beer: Space Broccoli
Brewery: Other Half Brewing Co
Style: IPA – Imperial / Double
ABV: 7.9%
IBU: None
Untappd Description: Our classic Broccoli recipe with Mosaic, Simcoe, Hallertau Blanc and then we swapped the Cascade for a ton of Galaxy.

For those ‘not in the know’ Other Half Brewing Co is one of the top notch East Coast breweries, and one of the more traded and sought after breweries from New York. Other Half started in 2014, they have 975 unique beers according to Untappd, with over 2.4 Million (nearly 2.5 Million) ratings. Their average rating is 4.24. Which is just incredible to think about considering the sheer volume of ratings and number of unique beers. Their Untappd Description reads: “In 2014, Sam Richardson, Matt Monahan and Andrew Burman founded Other Half Brewing Company, a local brewery in New York City with a simple mission: to create beers that they wanted to drink from a company that they wanted to be a part of. Their vision was to build a passionate team that brewed great beers in the state of New York—done so with effort and thoughtfulness—to represent the “Other Half” of the industry. Today, Other Half craft beers in their Brooklyn brewery and are dedicated to collaborating with breweries both in New York as well as across the world in an effort to constantly move the industry forward while elevating the craft. The Other Half team believes that local breweries play an important role in their communities which is why they partner with these other likeminded brewers and brands in local nabes across the country and the world—but always return to their home state of New York and their Brooklyn taproom.” Their top beers are listed as – Forever Ever, Green City, All Green Everything, and a lot of various double dry hopped variants of their other beers.

Firstly, this is basically a New England IPA. It doesn’t say that on the label or on Untappd, but thats what it is. As you can see from the picture, it is a gorgeous, beautiful beer. Perfect New England hazy IPA look. Its bright orange, like orange juice, its hazy, cloudy, opaque, beautiful head to it – white, with interspersed and varied bubbles, and left a lovely lacing on the glass as I drank it down (quickly too).

Aroma is a heavenly bouquet of hops. It has that nice heavy handed hop aroma that comes with a very juicy New England IPA. The Simcoe and Mosaic hops come through on the nose the most. The Galaxy is a nice addition, and probably helps this better than the Cascade would have, I do love Galaxy Hops.

Wooooh booooooy….. this drank waaaaaaaay too easily. Especially for a DIPA…. not that I’m really complaining, and really at 7.9% its not too crazy ridiculous high, though its getting on the higher end of the spectrum. (I consider 7.5% the tipping point.) This is one of the best New England IPAs / DIPAs I’ve had, in a long time, or period, for that matter. Its downright juicy and so tasty. This is very smooth with no hop bite, no bitterness, no acidity at all. The mosaic hops give this a nice berry, fruity, stone fruit taste. The simcoe gives it a piney, earthy undertone, and the galaxy hops give it a very strong peach, citrus, passionfruit. The hops blend together very nicely in this. Nothing is too overpowering or too strong. You don’t get too much pine or too much berry or too much peach or citrus or passionfruit, you get them all in equal measures, and this works very well together. Its a very nice conjunction of hops and tastes and flavors, with nothing being too strong, nothing being off, nothing tasting funky or wrong or different. It all just blends so well together, like its a peaceful orchestra harmony or some kind of poetic crap like that. This is a beautiful New England Double IPA. Hands down, it looks beautiful, it tastes wonderful, its just amazing and fantastic. So mad props to Drew for letting me snag this from him (he got some of it too), and for his brother in law shipping quality beers like Other Half down to Harrisburg, and of course to Other Half itself for brewing such a great beer. Seriously, if you’ve never had the pleasure of Other Half, make a note, make ten notes, but make sure you get yourself some Other Half at some point. You won’t be disappointed, I know that much, their IPAs and DIPAs and TIPAs are complete ‘fire’ right now as all the cool kids would say. If you’re not from New York or NYC, your best bet might be to look up some Facebook beer trade groups or Beer Advocate and try and get it that way (trade or $); though $$ might be expensive with secondary mark up. But it will still be worth it. But in the meantime, in the Pennsylvania area, support your local breweries; first, otherwise they might not be here in the future. Anyway, I digress. Summary: Fantastic beer. Delicious. Great NE-DIPA. End summary.

My Untappd Rating: ****.5
Global Untappd Rating: 4.24 (as of 12.13.20)

Alright everyone, this is technically day two of the mandatory restrictions. I know a lot of places, restaurants, bars, breweries, etc, are disobeying the Governor’s orders. Its your decision on who to patronize and who to help and support. I’m not taking a side here or there. This is a tough climate and tough decisions for all of these businesses. I know its going to make things harder with them staying open, and gives the Governor more cause to keep the mandates and things going, but hopefully not, and hopefully the numbers will start lowering soon. Fingers crossed. The vaccines are rolling out. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Lets just get there! I want to go to some brewfests in 2021 dammnit!

Cheers!

-B. Kline

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