Stoneman Brewery

THE OPPORTUNITY

By investing in Stoneman Brewery, you will support a business that is committed to supplying the people of Massachusetts with award-winning beer crafted using locally-sourced and sustainable ingredients.

• Proven Demand - We’ve already identified a loyal customer base in Central and Western Massachusetts, with our beer sold in over 150 locations in this half of the state.
• Experienced Founders - Our founder, Justin Korby, has been brewing beer since 2012.

We are a small farm brewery with distribution across New England, and have started the first beer CSA in the country using 100% locally sourced ingredients, all located on a 74-acre farm in Colrain, MA.

OUR STORY

In 2012 Justin Korby (owner and brewer) opened Stoneman Brewery LLC and started the first Beer CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in the Untied States. Selling "Shares" of beer brewed with nearly 100% local and regionally sourced ingredients in every bottle, where the customer payed in advance for a case of beer once a month for a 3 to 6 month period to be picked up once a month.

On a rural Colrain hillside farm Justin and his family build the smallest commercial brewery in the North East licensed at a total of 360 square feet. Stoneman Brewery was only open to the public one day a month for both CSA members and the general public to buy beer on the farm.

In 2013 Stoneman Brewery started the "Beer Share" series where every month he collaborated with a different Massachusetts brewery to make a small batch of beer using 100% local / regional grown ingredients for a specific event or store/business.

By 2015 it became apparent that Stoneman Brewery had to expand in some way since he was running one of the smallest breweries in the North East, using a CSA model, self distributing to stores in the Western MA area completely by himself (minus the help of his once retired parents and a handful interns). He slowly ended the Beer CSA model (for now), started looking for a new location to expand and by 2016 started contract brewing to keep the brand alive expanding from producing one barrel batches to 50 barrel batches at a time.

In 2016 Stoneman Brewery worked with CISA to change the rules to be the first brewery to be able to put the Local Hero Sticker on every beer he produced. This signifies that over 50% of the cost of the raw ingredients were grown in Massachusetts and the surrounding North East.

In 2019 Stoneman Brewery won the "Good Food Award" (one of the most prestigious award in the packaging food industry) for the Tractor Ryed IPA and also was nominated for the Middleman IPA.

Offerings

• All In IPA 7% abv - 16oz cans
• BeeZerker Braggot Ale 10% abv - 22oz bottle
• MiddleMan IPA 6.5% abv - 16oz cans
• King Korby Imperial Ale 9% abv - 22oz bottle

In the press

• "Stoneman Brewery owner prides himself on using ingredients from the region" (Greenfield Recorder)
• "Local brews, pickles up for national award" (Greenfield Recorder)
• Area brewers share their predictions and plans for 2020 (Greenfield Recorder)
• "20 Places opening in Western Mass in 2020" (WWLP)
• Interview 2018 (Interview with Stoneman: CISA Local Hero Spotlight)

• Ingredients : $78,280
• Marketing : $15,000
• Small Equipment : $7,300
• Mainvest Compensation: $6,420

Justin Korby
Owner and Founder
From the very beginning I've been really passionate about getting my hands on ingredients directly from the farms. I think I was the smallest brewery in the Northeast;I was 360 square feet, which was my entire licensed brewery storage area bonded area. Everything happened in 36o square feet with stone man brewery. It's not just about producing a product that you really enjoy and want to sell and make money, it's about producing a product that your neighbors and families and friends helped contribute to make this whole thing possible. I never really want to just make beer like how everyone else is making beer. I really wanted to get out there to the fields into the hop yard and see the whole malting process and be a part of growing beer