Visited: January 22, 2003

Opened: 1995

Annual Production: 2,000 bbl

Contributor: Guy Drouin

This original Heartland Brewery is located on Union Square West between 16th and 17th Streets. Damned pricey beer here: $6 pints and an extra buck for Barleywine. Samples of all eight beers go for $11.95.

Since 2004, all Heartland beer is brewed at Greenpoint Beer Works in Brooklyn.

Updated: December 7, 2007

• Cornhusker Lager
  German-Style Pilsener
  • Date: January 22, 2003 (#4641)
    Package: draught
    Place: at the brewery
    Score: 13 points
    Overall Impression
    Deep golden, thick head. Clean aroma. Medium-light body. Sweet, malty, buttery. Good noble hop flavor and bitterness, but diacetyl wrecks the flavor.
  • Date: September 27, 1996 (#1655)
    Package: draught
    Place: Great American Beer Festival, Denver CO
    Score: 14 points
    Overall Impression
    Golden, good head. Sweet, malty aroma. Very malty, not sweet, but underhopped.