Tree House Brewing Company is a craft brewery that opened in Brimfield, Massachusetts in 2011. It was founded by friends Dean Rohan, Nate Lanier and Damien Goudreau. The trio started out as homebrewers around 2008 and would make beer in Lanier's kitchen. They opened their brewery in a small red barn on a 2.7 acre farm in Brimfield. They named it "Tree House" after an actual tree house that sat on the property. The partners sold beer strictly via growler fills and their popularity grew at an alarming rate simply by word of mouth. Following some zoning disputes, Tree House moved to a large red shed on Koran Farm (owned by the family of one of the founders) in nearby Monson in December 2013. In June 2015, they opened a larger facility across the street which expanded their capacity six-fold and they now had a canning line. In May 2017, Tree House opened a 53,000 square foot state-of-the-art brewing facility in Charlton. The Monson facility closed to the public but continued to be used as their barrel-aging facility. In addition to their home base in Charlton, Tree House now has secondary locations in South Deerfield, Sandwich (Cape Cod), Tewksbury, Boston, Saratoga (NY), and a farm and cidery in Woodstock (CT). In addition to making beer and cider, they also now have pizza, distillery and coffee roastery operations as well as a performance venue.
My family and I recently visited Tree House's Saratoga Springs Taproom to celebrate my 42nd birthday. This location opened to the public in March 2025. It's just a 5 minute drive away from the Saratoga Race Course. We were so impressed with this location! The 20,000-sq-ft facility features a large bar, pizza kitchen, plenty of indoor and outdoor seating, and two regulation bocce courts. For food, we ordered and shared a "Half & Half Pie" (house tomato sauce, house cheese blend, Italian herbs, olive oil, pepperoni), a "Vodka Pie" (House Vodka Sauce made with Tree House's House Vodka, fior di latte, parmesan), and an order of "Garlic Knots" (scratch-made, cold-fermented dough knots oven-charred to perfection and tossed in house garlic sauce w/ toasted garlic, Pecorino Romano, butter & pesto oil). The latter are exclusive to the Saratoga location. To wash down the pizza, I ordered delicious draught pours of "CCCreamsicleee" (New England IPA), "Very Green Passionfruit" (Double New England IPA), and my wife had a "Transfusion" cocktail. During our visit, we also played a game of bocce and had a blast! Customers can sign out a set of bocce balls from the gift shop and then have a court to themselves for an hour. What's a better combo than delicious pizza, beer and bocce?! We've visited all of Tree House's locations, but Saratoga Springs just might be our favorite one! read more