BOLTON LANDING, NEW YORK

Residing at an old Victorian manor in the Lake George hamlet of Bolton Landing, family-owned BOLTON LANDING BREWING COMPANY came to fruition in 2017. Diligently operated by Brendan Murnane, the casually cozy cafe-styled pub (with low ceiling) features a right side wood bar with eight draught handles, wood-metal chaired tables and small kitchen area while the picnic-tabled front porch overlooks beautiful Lake George.

Creating impressive home recipes (and temporarily brewing offsite before renovations begin), Murnane has crafted 40-plus one-offs and recurring beers at his seven-barrel system in nearly ten years. Expect that number to rise when the windowed rear brew section gets updated and redesigned.

The fine pub fare includes smashburgers, cheese pies, chili dogs, wings and pretzels. Guest taps from nearby Frog Alley, Paradox, Common Roots and Ommegang were available alongside two superb Bolton originals while my wife and I enjoyed hummus during my noon time excursion late March 2026.

Frothily creamed New England IPA, Tight Squeeze, took lemony orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple, mango and tangerine tanginess plus mildly resinous wood tones to the pasty oated wheat base – casually colliding bitter West Coast-styled citric pining with limey East Coast-styled green grape, gooseberry and guava tartness in a Citra-Moteuka-Sauvin hop blend.

Meanwhile, richly robust Imperial Stout, Urban Lumberjack, utilized local maple syrup and roasted coffee to sidle its Tahitian vanilla bean ‘heft,’ draping bittersweet dark chocolate all over the hop-charred vanilla, molasses and coffee-laden finish (and picking up tertiary creme brulee, hazelnut java, mocha truffle, glazed pecan, candied toffee and sticky anise illusions).