You'll have the opportunity to sample a few of the award-winning Saranac Family of beers and fine tune the tasting skills you learned throughout the tour. Our famous Tavern Root Beer is also available on tap as well as in bottles - just like the root beer you remember as a child. A trip to our Brewery would not be complete without a stop at The Brewery Shop. Our Brewery Tour is open Monday thru Saturday, September through May Monday thru Sunday, June through August Closed all major holidays Except for the summer months, we do request that you call in advance to make reservations for tours, which typically run about one hour. From NYS Thruway Exit 31, take Genesee Street South through downtown to Court Street.
Free parking is available.
As one of the few remaining great American regional breweries, the Matt Brewing Company has prospered at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Central New York for over a century. In 1885, young F.X. Matt I, a German-born immigrant, left a promising career at the famous Duke of Baden Brewery in the Black Forest region of Germany to travel to the United States with the determination and dream of owning his own brewery someday. After several years of brewing experience at the Bierbaur Brewery, F.X. Matt re-organized the faltering brewery to create The West End Brewing Company in 1888. Serving as both the star salesman and brewmaster, the brewery quickly became one of the largest and most successful of the 12 breweries operating in Utica at the time. Today, as a third generation brewer, F.X. Matt II continues to brew beer to the exacting standards of quality set forth by his grandfather and father.