Wolf Hollow Brewing opens Scotia taproom, shifts production there

Wolf Hollow Brewing Company opened its new Scotia taproom at Scotia Village Plaza, 154 Sacandaga Road, after a soft opening on June 26, and the company followed with a public expansion push on June 29. The move is more than a new place to pour pints: Pete Bednarek and Jordan White plan to shift production from Glenville to Scotia, turning the space into both a taproom and a working brewery.

The new site is about 11,500 square feet, with roughly 7,500 square feet set aside for production and room for about 100 guests. Wolf Hollow’s original West Glenville location stays open, so the company is not replacing one venue with another. It is building a two-site model that gives the brewery more space to make beer, serve drinkers and keep its local footprint intact.

That logic fits Wolf Hollow’s growth path. Bednarek and White started the brewery in fall 2013 as a nano brewery in West Glenville, brewing about 80 gallons a week on a half-barrel system. When the business moved into its Glenville location in 2015, production climbed to about 450 gallons a week in a 3,000-square-foot facility. The company has also said its tasting room served more than 33,000 pints in a year and that it sold wholesale kegs to more than 75 area bars and restaurants, numbers that show why a larger production base matters.

Wolf Hollow has also positioned itself as more than a taproom brand. The brewery says it sells beer in more than 100 local businesses, and the Scotia opening is built to support that kind of reach. The new location will eventually add a kitchen, but food service was expected only by mid-August. Until then, the taproom plans to run rotating food trucks and allow guests to bring their own food, a practical setup that lets the space start serving customers before every amenity is finished.

The result is a familiar craft-beer expansion pattern, but one with a clear operator’s logic behind it. Wolf Hollow is keeping its Glenville room open while building a bigger production-and-hospitality home in Scotia, betting that the plaza on Sacandaga Road can support more beer, more wholesale volume and more reasons for regulars to keep showing up.