SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK
Taking up a sprawling Saratoga Springs complex at Route 9, TREE HOUSE BREWING COMPANY now operates six fabulously gargantuan wood-designed franchises in the Northeast. Inside an aluminum-roofed lodge with brown wood siding, Tree House’s first New York brewhouse opened for biz March 10, 2025.
A world class enterprise proudly ‘pioneering hazy India Pale Ales,’ Tree House has emerged as one of the finest IPA and ‘big beer’ makers nationwide.
Surrounded by several pavilions with multiple Adirondack chair and firepits, Tree House’s sprawling epoxy-floored interior features a large 40 draught tap station, a few brew room trees, multiple TV’s and cavernous skylight at the black metal ceiling (with hanging bulbs, white sailcloth design and exposed pipes). The enormous left side dining space benefits from a stone-based central hearth with surrounding lounge chairs, couches and tables. A rightside pizza kiosk serves hearty pies.
I initially perused the Saratoga pub on a Thursday afternoon, March 2026, revisiting the next day dinnertime.
For St. Patrick’s Day (a few days prior), Tree House crafted two superb nitrogenated Irish-themed suds.
Soft nitro-frothed amber-grained Irish red ale, Cleona, left nutty cocoa remnants and wispy rye splotch on brown-leafed black tea earthiness.
As for dry nitro Irish stout, Oh Danny Boy, its bristling hop-charred coffee nuttiness subsumed black cherry, blackcurrant and blackberry whims in a bitterly cocoa-dried Black malt setting.
Frothy English brown ale, Bear (With Coffee), draped dark chocolate syrup over medium-roast coffee nuttiness, gathering wood-burnt chicory bittering to counter caramel-candied molasses, fudgy cocoa and hazelnut paste atop brown breaded mocha malts.
Bold “classic stout,” Sojourn, allowed upfront dark-roast coffee nuttiness to consume fudged caramel, chocolate and toffee sweetness contrasting oncoming dark-roast piney hop char, picking up mild hazelnut molasses, pumpernickel rye and espresso sway.
While watching the NCAA basketball tourney and listening to a spry female acoustic guitarist, drifted back to Tree House within 24 hours to consume more excellent fare.
Sessionable Czech pale lager, Easy Does It, doused mild herbal Saaz hop spicing and dried maize starching with spritzy lemon zest over doughy pilsner malting.
Amiable Hallertau-hopped wheat lager, Quiet Satisfaction, let lemony passionfruit, mandarin orange, clementine, white grapefruit and white peach spritz prickle light basil-tinged spicing and dry Pinot Gris wining above hay-like torrified wheat base.
Dry hop-forward straw-yellowed New Zealand pilsner, Hopsy, utilized tropical Motueka, Rakau and Nelson Sauvin hops to lightly embitter lemony white grape, passionfruit, guava, gooseberry and mandarin orange zesting given mildly pined juniper sashay.
Belgian-styled pilsner, Parel, put dry compost-wafted wild oats next to zesty lemon peel, musky orange rot, musty herbage and juniper-tipped lemongrass.
Wee heavy Scotch ale, Old World, caressed dried cocoa stead with peat-smoked dewiness, hazelnut molasses and cola nuttiness.
Upping the citric Tangier hop influence, 7% ABV “American lager” variant, Tangier, spread orange zest, tangerine tanginess and tangelo tartness across dry grassy herbage atop creamy oats base.
Virant mango puree sweetness anchored Imperial IPA, Big Mango, a juicy hazy golden medium body with peachy guava, pineapple and papaya tanginess settling across juniper-tipped piney bittering.
Fudgy brown chocolate and chewy marshmallow aligned for delicious melted S’mores dessert, All That Is And All That Ever Will Be, a rich pastry stout with vanilla-spiced dark cherry, raisin and anise illusions seeping inside honeyed Graham Cracker sugaring.
