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Artist's rendering shows the new Cooperstown Brewing Co. plant and Northern Eagle Beverage warehouse. Construction by Eastman Associates is expected to be complete by October 2015.
Artist’s rendering shows the new Cooperstown Brewing Co. plant and Northern Eagle Beverage warehouse. Construction by Eastman Associates is expected to be complete by October 2015.

HAGER HOPS BREAKS GROUND

ON BREWERY IN WEST ONEONTA

A ceremonial ground breaking this afternoon started work on the new 82,000-square-foot building that will house a new Cooperstown Brewing Co. plant and Northern Eagle Beverage warehouse on Browne Street in West Oneonta. From left are Bryan Birdsall, sales manager; George Allen, president; Whit Hager, 9, son of principal Lou Hager III; Matt Curley, general manager; Alicia Hager and her brother, Lou III, and Melissa Miosek, sales. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)
A ceremonial ground breaking this afternoon started work on the new 82,000-square-foot building that will house the new Cooperstown Brewing Co. plant and Northern Eagle Beverage warehouse on Browne Street in West Oneonta. From left are Bryan Birdsall, sales manager; George Allen, president; Whit Hager, 9, next to his dad, Lou Hager Jr.; Matt Curley, general manager; Alicia Hager and her brother, Lou III, and Melissa Miosek, sales. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)
Prior to the groundbreaking, Lou Hager Jr. brings the crowd up to date on plans by the affiliated companies, Northern Eagle Beverages and Hager Hops, to complete the hops-to-tap cycle in Otsego County. Hager is growing hops in Pierstown, processing them in Oneonta, drying them in Milford, then adding them into the brewing process for such Cooperstown Brewing favorites as Old Slugger beer. Seated n the foreground are, from left, Hager's daughter Alicia and son Lou III, general manager Matt Curley, president George Allen and sales manager Bryan Birdsall. Seated three rows back is Hugh Henderson, a county IDA board member. Standing from left are Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood; Gordon B. Roberts executive Jon Hansen; aides to Senator Seward Doug Cannistra and Jeff Bishop; IDA President Sandy Mathes, COO Elizabeth Horvath and board chair Bob Hanft; Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller; Dennis Finn of the city Airport Commission; and county Rep. Janet Hurley Quackenbush.
Prior to the groundbreaking, Lou Hager Jr. brings the crowd up to date on plans by the affiliated companies, Northern Eagle Beverage and Hager Hops, to complete the hops-to-tap cycle in Otsego County. Hager is growing hops in Pierstown, processing them in Oneonta, drying them in Milford, then adding them into the brewing process for such Cooperstown Brewing favorites as Old Slugger beer. Seated n the foreground are, from left, Hager’s daughter Alicia and son Lou III, general manager Matt Curley, president George Allen and sales manager Bryan Birdsall. Seated three rows back is Hugh Henderson, a county IDA board member. Standing from left are Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood; Gordon B. Roberts executive Jon Hansen; aides to Senator Seward Doug Cannistra and Jeff Bishop; IDA President Sandy Mathes, COO Elizabeth Horvath and board chair Bob Hanft; Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller; Dennis Finn of the city Airport Commission; and county Rep. Janet Hurley Quackenbush.

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