After brewing quality craft beer at home for over 5 years, Adam Chamberland and Brian Patterson have been encouraged by the masses to pursue a fully licensed operation to produce more of their award winning ales to be made available to our loyal followers and the general public. In September of 2015, we entered our first homebrew competition together (Brian was a silver medalist in a past War of t
he Worts Competition in Philadelphia) and out of over 80 contenders, we took one of two first place prizes for our high octane espresso imperial stout "Stowaway", which was a collaboration with Lancaster's Passenger Coffee Roasters. We used their flagship espresso roast (Stowaway Blend) and developed a unique way of introducing the fresh pulled espresso shots into our brew. We partnered with Nate Kaiser, a friend and possible partner, who is the resident coffee master at Passenger. We want to start out by upgrading to a small batch professional turnkey system to further develop several unique recipes that we have designed, and intend to initially announce quarterly small batch bottle releases at our brewing location (TBD) for sampling and discussion until we complete the licensing process which could take quite a bit of time. With smaller batches, you can explore a lot more with recipes and keep a high level of quality and precision in every batch. Our trademark is pending and cleared to registration for Wicket Gate Artisan Ales and we are excited to embark on this journey, no matter where it leads. Thank you all for supporting us up until now and for your continued support!
