Hopsego Features Beer Samples,

Music, Demonstrations, Kid Fun

Wyatt Crowley from the Red Shed, Cherry Valley, top photo,  pours a sample of the craft brewery’s offerings for Debbie Quick and Ray Kelly, both of Milford, this afternoon at The Farmers’ Museum first Hopsego Festival, celebrating the revival of Otsego County’s signature crop and related beer making in recent years.  At left, Linda Patterson of East Greenbush sports a hops corsage, the outcome of hops-related crafts pursued today at the Cooperstown museum; Linda and husband Tom are members and visit the museum 2-3 times a year.  (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)