CIA Brewery
CIA Brewery
CIA Brewery
CIA Brewery

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CIA Brewery

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The Culinary Institute of America’s brewery is primarily a classroom where bachelor’s-level students learn about the ingredients, equipment, and techniques required to produce ales and lagers. It was created in 2015 in partnership with Brooklyn Brewery, whose brewers and business executives often serve as guest lecturers. The class helps future food professionals think differently about beer, elevating its status as a fine beverage on a level with wine.

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Our award-winning Mise En Place Wit is now available in four-packs of 16-ounce cans! You can purchase this beer on campus at The Egg or at some local beer distributors. More varieties coming soon.
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Everyday Favorites

Our most popular beers, available year round.

Cleaver IPA

Cleaver IPA (6.5% abv)
Full-flavored India Pale Ale featuring loads of American hop flavor and aromas of tangerine and mango balanced by malty sweetness.

Mise en Place Wit

Mise en Place Wit (4.6% abv)
Light-bodied Belgian-style wheat beer brewed with orange peel and coriander. Crisp with a pleasant spicy finish.

 

Seasonal Selections

We’re always brewing something new. Check back periodically to see what’s available. (Current as of 10/25)

Class Project: May The Schwarz Beer With You (5.5% abv)
Created by students in the Art and Science of Brewing class, this German-style Schwarzbier features a complex blend of roasted malts balanced by German hop bitterness and aroma. Medium-bodied with notes of toasted nuts and cocoa, this black lager is flavorful but easy drinking with a crisp finish.

Oktoberfest (5.5% abv)
The traditional German lager of autumn, this Marzen-style amber lager is smooth and balanced with complex malted barley flavors of fresh bread, caramel, and toasted nuts. Oktoberfest is tasty and highly drinkable!

You Tell Me—A Cold IPA or Hoppy Lager? (7.0% abv)NEW BEER!
Brewed in collaboration with Great Life Brewing, You Tell Me combines bright fruity hops with cold-fermented lager yeast to produce a crisp hoppy beer with strong tropical fruit aromas of passionfruit and guava. Brewed with 100% New York grown malted barley and corn.

 

Awards

2023

2022

  • Great American Beer Festival—Bronze Medal in the Classic Saison Catergory: Soigne Saison
  • New York State Craft Beer Competition—Silver Medal in the Belgian Ale Category: Class Project Father Murphy’s Tripel

2021

  • New York State Craft Beer Competition—Silver Medal in the Wheat Beer Category: Mise en Place Wit
  • New York State Craft Beer Competition—Bronze Medal in the Amber or Dark Lager Category: Equinox Amber Lager

2019

  • New York State Craft Beer Competition—Brewery of the Year
  • New York State Craft Beer Competition—Gold Medal in the Wheat Beer Category: Mise en Place Wit
  • New York State Craft Beer Competition—Gold Medal in the Brown Ale Category: Class Project Br-Br-Br-Brown Ale
  • U.S. Open College Beer Championships—Bronze Medal in the American IPA Category: Cleaver IPA

2017

  • New York State Craft Beer Competition—Bronze Medal in the Belgian Farmhouse Category: Class Project Stay Sharp Saison

 

New York State Craft Beer Competition - 2023 Bronze Medal

2023 Bronze Medal
New York State Craft Beer Competition - 2022 Silver Medal

2022 Silver Medal
Great American Beer Festival - 2022 Bronze Medal

2022 Bronze Medal
New York State Craft Beer Competition - 2021 Silver Medal

2021 Silver Medal

 

Our Location

 
CIA’s brewery is located in The Egg, on our Hyde Park, NY campus. CIA beers are sold on tap when the college is in session, Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday–Sunday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

They are also available at all of the restaurants on CIA’s New York campus, and Mise en Place Wit will soon be available at select restaurants in New York City and the Hudson Valley.
 
The Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY 12538-1499
 

Head Brewer Hutch Kugeman

photo of Hutch Kugeman, head brewer for CIA’s breweryHutch Kugeman is head brewer for CIA’s brewery. Hutch is responsible for producing four kinds of beer in the microbrewery for CIA’s public restaurants and student dining facility. He also assists in teaching, as CIA’s brewery is a classroom where students learn about the ingredients, equipment, and techniques required to produce ales and lagers in a course titled The Art and Science of Brewing.

Hutch is the first head brewer at CIA’s brewery, which opened in late 2015. He came to his current position after serving as founding brewer at Crossroads Brewing Company in Athens, NY since 2010. Kugeman was previously lead brewer at Ithaca Beer Company in Ithaca, NY and head brewer at Great Adirondack Brewing in Lake Placid, NY. He began his career by learning from Darron Welch at the Pelican Brewing Company in Pacific City, OR in 2002.

Hutch’s beers have won numerous awards, including at the Great American Beer Festival, World Beer Cup, North American Beer Awards, and TAP New York Festival. While at Crossroads in 2011, he won the Matthew Vassar Brewers’ Cup as the Best Craft Beer Brewery in the Hudson Valley and the inaugural John Calen Memorial Award for Best Pale Ale in New York State.

A native of Redding, CT, Hutch Kugeman is a graduate of the University of Virginia. He also holds a diploma in Brewing Science and Engineering from the American Brewers Guild. From 1997 to 1999, he was a middle school teacher in North Carolina as part of the Teach for America program.