About Us
The owners, brewers, packagers, cleaners and servers: Chris and Michelle
About us
Polyculture Brewing Company is our small, family-owned and solar-powered brewery in Croydon, New Hampshire. We operate out of the barn attached to our nearly 150-year-old farmhouse and imaginative beers that feature local ingredients to the community.
Our name & our beer
We use a mix of microbes, rather than just one yeast, to make beers that are uniquely ours. We also draw on a variety of beer traditions and cultures when crafting our recipes, learning from those who were making great beer for centuries before we got started.
What we want to do, and what we want to be
We think it’s important to commit locally. We want to be the community’s brewery, making beer that tastes like it came from our place, and making beer for the people who live here.
We are lucky to have a well that supplies clear, crisp mineral water for our brewing. We use New England sourced and malted grains whenever possible. In fall we do a fresh hop beer with hand-picked local hops, reminding ourselves and our community that beer is an agricultural product. We like to include other special ingredients that are available seasonally in our area, like the dandelions that cover our property in early summer. We’ve also been experimenting with wild yeast capture to find our next brewing microbes—stay tuned!
Read our profile in the Valley News here.
Chris at the Lebanon Farmers’ Market
We focus on sharing our beers with our community. When we launched the brewery, we sold exclusively through farmers’ markets so that people would have the chance to meet us, try the beers, and tell us what they thought. Something that makes farmers’ markets special is the opportunity to meet everyone, not just beer lovers, and we get to surprise some folks who thought they didn’t like beer. We hope you will visit our beer garden to see our place and try the beers that we make here!
Sustainability
Making beer is a resource-intensive process. We try to cut down on the resources we use in any way we can so we can keep making beer. In March of 2020, we installed solar panels on our brew barn and now make our beer with solar power!
