Hyland Orchard & Brewing

They allow dogs!!! Also, we have yet to find a bad beer on the menu. They have live music most weekend evenings and a very relaxed atmosphere. There is nothing better than grabbing a beer, listening to music and chillin with your dog! Love this place!

Great orchard! Even late in the season the apple selection was great and the picking was good. It was also awesome to have a beer and listening to some live music

Rapscallion brewery is A+ in my book. We came here after visiting the other nearby brewery; and man, what a breath of fresh air!!! An excellent selection of great brews, seating, and snacks!!! The «smoked» was the most unique brew i have ever tasted, they have BT smokehouse smoke the hops!!! i liked all of the brews i tried there!

I love Hyland Orchard. I come here every year and have a blast! The live band makes it even more enjoyable. The apples are good and the beer is great!

Very fun! A great place to go apple picking and seeing local music. They also have goats you can pet and a little play place for kids. They also have a brewery and I’m pretty sure they have hay rides in the fall. Hyland orchards is very good for groups. I love going here In the fall because it’s very close to my town.

Great fun, live bands on Sunday, beer on taps, grab some food from home and lay out a blanket. Cannot beat the atmosphere.

This is really just for the Rapscaillon Tap room, since I didn’t enjoy any of the other really exciting things that this place has to offer.
The Taproom is pretty near, it’s got giant picnic tables, and then some high tops around the edge. It’s got pure standing room up at the bar. They have an excellent selection. It’s a bit pricey, at 7 dollars for 4 samples but we ordered two and got the 2 beers we didn’t pick for free. So I appreciate that. They have a wide range of beers from pale ales, to oyster stouts. All of their beers were pretty good, none of them I would turn down and some of them I absolutely wanted more of. Their blueberry, and their black ipa was delicious.
You can bring your own food in, and they even have some chips and nuts for sale. Over all I’d absolutely go back, I wish I had tried the wine, and I would love to play some disc golf.

We fell madly in love with this place within about two minutes of arriving, and our affection grew and grew the longer we were there. It’s one of those places that just seems so special to me that I kind of don’t want to review it at all, because I want to keep it a secret – but because it’s so deserving, I feel I must give it a review (and a 5-​star one, at that).
There’s all kinds of fun stuff to do, most of which we didn’t even do, but we might do some of those things (apple picking, disc golf, events, etc.) some other time. What we DID do is hang out at the Hyland pavilion and drink delicious beer, chat with cool local people, and. .. smoke cigarettes. Yes, you read that right: it’s not really a bar, it’s just a big slab of concrete with a roof and no walls on the sides – it’s basically just part of the field, and you’re allowed to smoke. So you can sit at the bar and drink a beer and smoke a cigarette At The Same Time like a civilized person instead of always having to put a coaster on your damn beer and go outside. For those who appreciate such luxuries, well, it was like a little oasis in a vast Massachusetts sea of «will you please watch my drink and make sure nobody puts a roofie in it while I go outside for a smoke» silliness. We were taking photos of ourselves to brag to our friends about how awesome a time we had.
THEN we figured out that the Rapscallion tap room was ALSO open — I mean, this was at like 7:00 p.m. on a Sunday, so we really figured we were out of luck on finding ANYTHING to do over there, and after we found the pavilion, we didn’t even think there would be MORE to do – and we went over and had beer in the tap room and met the brewer. The brewer was super cool and gave us a tour and made us feel incredibly welcome.
The BEER was delicious, by the way. Seriously, you can see why I almost don’t even want to post this review, right? This is the sort of place I want to keep to myself. But it all just rocks so much that I must give it props.

Went for the disc golf. Has a cool outdoor bar. Did not stop by not sure if you can get the same beers inside as out. Recently change to the Rapscallion Brewery. Lost a disc and they called back that was great. Went for the opening of apple picking but not very busy. Went a second time during a New England Disc competition, was bummed that there really wasn’t a mention of it on the site.

I had no idea this was here until last summer and instantly fell in love. I grew up in the area but now reside in the Metrowest, and I’m VERY happy to make the ride over to relax at this great place on a nice day. I came in during the summer, wandering into the tasting room to meet some family and have some GREAT beer. $ 5 a pint of fresh microbrew? Heck yeah!
The beers are great, fresh, and have some good kicks — the Red Nitro Stout still excites me, and the Blueberry Ale had a nice spice to it you wouldn’t normally find.
The pavillion is gorgeous for a warm day — hang outside, enjoy the sunshine and smell of the farm, the scenery… seriously, this is where happy happens.
Hopefully I can get in there with my band this summer to gig there, as well! Best of both worlds!

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Came here for a round of disc golf and a beer the other day. Overall, great course, and good beer! I had the American IPA and my buddy had the Nitro something beer. All draft beers are $ 5… Not bad!

I come here at least once every Fall for some family-​friendly jamband festy time. I drink good beer, I pick apples, I observe tie-​dye tarps and patchwork pants, I smell patchouli, I wiggle dance to songs that never seem to end, and I pet some cute farm animals. Those are my expectations, and they are met every single time.
OK, so it’s an apple orchard and beer brewery that sometimes hosts musical events. And also has llamas, goats and chickens. I’m sure in text it makes zero sense, but it somehow all comes together when you are there.
I have never been here on just a normal day, and if I did, I’m not sure what my criteria would be, but for my purposes, Hyland is a DAMN good time!

I obviously missed the point of this place. I don’t see tours offered anymore, went for the Sunday music.
Bar area that stunk of wart and bleach
Music? Not to me
WAY too hot, one window unit for the whole bar?
Lots of overalls, beards and long hair ponytails… NO women
The Indianapolis quote from Jaws behind the bar is cool. I asked why it was there, the keep told me «Cause it’s fucking COOL!» Can’t argue with that.
Meh…just buy their beer at the local packy, save yourself the trip.

Forgotten brewery in a quiet corner of South Central Massachusetts. It’s been about 4 years since I’ve been here, and they’ve since fully adopted the name Pioneer Brewing Company, and changed the names of their beers since I had them at the orchard.
This review is therefore incomplete for now, but wanted to include this place on my west of 495 beer destination list. I will soon revisit!
Meanwhile, I have great memories of this place, a dark, wood-​paneled tasting room next to the apple orchard on a Sturbridge back road. Great beer for reasonable prices, but since they’ve changed the names I’ll have to get back to you on the specifics after I revisit them for a few pints!

Fifth star, since the owner himself did the tour!
The Pioneer Brewing Company sits on a farm and is a magnificent study in a small brewer working to become a regional brewer. While their products didn’t blow me away any more than some of the other New England brewers’ products, I can say that it is a good enough product to make that transition.
The owner, a friendly guy whose attitude and enthusiasm infected the tour group as a whole, talked as much about the logistics and business plan of running a brewery as making the beer. Being a guy who loves those things, it really resonated with me.
Of note, the tours are on Sundays at 2, so plan accordingly. The bar the brewery is attached to was filled with locals, bikers and homemade pico de gallo. It was an oddly comfortable place, and one I’d recommend going to if you want to see beer made small-​scale by a hardworking team.

The is a review just for the Pioneer Brewing Company brewery tour.
First, an important note — during our tour the brewmaster mentioned that Pioneer is moving the entire brewery from their current 4,000 square foot space to a new 17,000 square foot space a little ways down the road on Main Street.
The brewery tours take place on Sundays at 2PM. It’s very informal. Pioneer has a big bar room which is an obvious hangout for locals. At around 2:15 the brewmaster gathered us up and took us on a quick tour of the three room brewery.
The great thing about visiting such a small brewery is the quality and detail of the information from the brewmaster. In this case, the tour guide was not just the brewmaster but the owner of the whole company. He was informative and frank, he led a great tour.
The three areas of the brewery are the brew house area where they begin the brewing process, the fermentation area where they age and then bottle the beer, and then the cold storage room which is where they keep their kegs, bottles, and kegs tapped up to the bar room.
After the tour we armed up to the bar for some free samples. We tried 5 different kinds of Pioneer beer. They were pretty good — they all generally tasted similar to me, nothing stood out. Even the blueberry beer didn’t have any knockout flavor notes but that’s just me maybe.
The orchards and grounds are really pretty and peaceful. A great place to spend an afternoon with friends or family.

I absolutely love apple picking for about 5 minutes … I can pick about 10 apples, eat one perfectly red one, and then I’m done. After that, walking around the orchard and fields is fine for a bit, but then I’m ready to bonk people with the apple picking pole, or lay down and nap.
Hyland gives me plenty of other great distractions which I think are integral parts of a realllly great apple picking trip. Beer, petting zoo, cheap food, live music … and did I say beer ??? Oh yea, and the apples are good, orchards pretty, etc. etc.
The live music is under this really large wooden pavilion-​structure-​floating-​roof-​thing … so a bit of a sprinkle is no biggie. What’s more is that the live music is often quite great, like the «Drunk Stuntmen».
The food is pretty decent fare, served at good prices. Burgers, dogs, and apple-​y things.
The Pioneer Beer brewed here is really good too, everything from Pale Ale to Stout!
One thing that really peeves me is when quint, wonderful orchards and farms turn into amusement parks, charging admission, etc. (aka Lookout) … Hyland is great in that they have free parking, entrance, animals, and music … don’t change, please!
Altogether, it makes for a very happy and fun full day of entertainment.

Just went this past Saturday to the Hyland Orchard and Brewery for the fourth annual «Apples A Go Go» trip with about 20 of my friends. Hyland is such a hidden gem I almost don’t want to review it. If you are a parent this place is perfect. It has beer and wine for you and a petting zoo, tractor rides, as well as short trees that you don’t need a ladder to pick for the kiddies. If you are like all my friends and arrive without any children Hyland is also perfect. Beer, wine, live bands, and no crowds. Given the lack of people you aren’t bombarded with kids running everywhere like you would be at Honey Pot in Stowe.
Years past the orchard sold food however popcorn and ice cream novelties were the only food being sold this year. When I asked about purchasing some food one of the owners informed me that they weren’t selling food this year but we could order take out from the pizza place down the road. We had 6 large pizzas delivered to us and ate and drank our beer sitting on the grass in the orchard. This place is one of my favorite spots in New England.

Went here for a private function, and drank a bunch of Pioneer Brewery beers. They have a lot of IPAs and pale-​like beers, but they all taste pretty darn good! We had a group of about 50 people and we fit easily.
There was a spread of food and the space was big enough to eat, mingle, drink, and be merry. If you’re in the neighborhood and want to taste local brews, I highly recommend stopping here!