Wolf Hollow Brewing opens Scotia taproom with full kitchen

Wolf Hollow Brewing Company held a ribbon cutting and grand opening on Thursday, Sept. 24, for its second taproom, a brewery and restaurant at 154 Sacandaga Road in the Scotia Village Plaza in Scotia, next to the Comfort Inn & Suites. The taproom soft-opened in June, NEWS10 reported, and it is the first brewery in the village, according to The Daily Gazette.

The company’s original brewery on Route 5 in West Glenville stays open. Scotia is in Schenectady County, outside our usual Saratoga County beat, but Route 50 connects Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa and Scotia.

The new taproom at a glance

Here are the basics for the Scotia location, from the brewery’s website.

• Address: 154 Sacandaga Road, Scotia. Phone (518) 280-0341.
• Current hours: 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. The kitchen closes 30 minutes before the bar.
• Reservations are not taken. Seating is first come, first served.
• Leashed dogs are welcome on patios and outdoor areas but not inside.

What is different in Scotia

The biggest change is food. West Glenville relies on rotating food trucks, while Scotia has a full kitchen serving salads, sandwiches and pub food, the Gazette reported. The room keeps the West Glenville feel, with high ceilings, wooden tables and a clear view of the brewing tanks, and adds a corner stage for live music. Trivia runs Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m., with gift cards for the winners, according to the brewery’s website.

The move is also about volume. Wolf Hollow opened in 2015 on a seven-barrel brewing system and makes about 1,800 barrels a year, and the owners told NEWS10 the new brewery will let production grow to about 2,500 barrels or more. The company first announced the expansion in October 2025.

What is on the Scotia menu

The kitchen menu posted on the brewery’s website is short and built around food that goes with beer. Here is how it breaks down.

• Starters include pretzel sticks with beer cheese and a spicy mustard named for the brewery’s Brunettes Revenge IPA, a buffalo chicken dip with naan and corn ribs with cotija and lime crema, priced from $11 to $13. Ten bone-in wings are $15.
• Sandwiches come with fries or apple slaw and run $15 to $19, from a breaded chicken thigh sandwich to a double smash burger and a shaved ribeye sub with beer cheese. A grilled vegetable melt is $16.
• Salads are $12 or $13, and the kids menu of chicken tenders, macaroni and cheese or grilled cheese is $10 or $11.
• Cocktails such as a margarita, an old fashioned and an Aperol spritz are $12 or $13, and house mocktails are $8.

The same menu lists about 15 beers on draft at $8 each, with a flight of any four for $13. The range runs from Nun the Wiser, a 4.2 percent lager, to Can’t Have Nice Things, an 8.8 percent double IPA. A few others on the board this fall are listed below.

• Oktoberfest, a Märzen at 5.8 percent.
• Campout Stout, a dry stout at 4.5 percent.
• A Czech-style pilsner poured from a Lukr side-pull tap with three fingers of foam.
• See How It Gose, a salted sour made with margarita extract, orange and lime.
• Hot July Moon, the house hard seltzer, made with strawberry and watermelon.

The people behind it

Pete Bednarek and Jordan White started Wolf Hollow as friends who brewed together, and the brewery’s own tagline begins with a pastor and a principal walking into a brewery. At the ceremony they introduced two new business partners, Ravi Modasra and Subhash Modasra, the Gazette reported. Bednarek said it took about a year of thinking about what Wolf Hollow is before the team settled on how the new space should look and work. “It was always only about doing something that would improve our community around beer,” he said, according to NEWS10.

Local officials turned out in numbers. Capital Region Chamber president Mark Eagan announced that Wolf Hollow had won Schenectady County’s Enterprise of the Year award in the Schenectady Business Awards, and County Legislator Michelle Ostrelich said the Scotia location added 18 jobs, tripling the company’s workforce, according to the Gazette. Gary Hughes, who chairs the Schenectady County Legislature, called the expansion an example of a local business investing in its community, NEWS10 reported.

Scotia Mayor David Bucciferro told the crowd that people love coming to the village, and he pitched the brewery as “a new place to not go home right after work,” according to the Gazette. The paper noted that Wolf Hollow joins a run of new businesses that have opened in the village recently.

If you go to West Glenville instead

The original taproom at 6882 Amsterdam Road is the outdoor-heavy one. The details below come from the brewery’s website.

• Current hours: 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, noon to 9 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Phone (518) 214-4093.
• Food comes from rotating food trucks, with the schedule posted online.
• Outdoor seating and fire pits stay open all year, with extra heaters in cold months, and two party tents and a pavilion can be rented from late spring through mid-fall.
• The Grain and Glass Trails, a mile-long wooded loop, link the brewery with Murray’s Fools Distilling and Adirondack Barrel Cooperage. Snowshoes rent for $5 in winter when conditions allow.

Both taprooms pour cider, wine, a house hard seltzer, seasonal cocktails and nonalcoholic beer along with Wolf Hollow’s own beer. Families with children are welcome at both.

Our read: the kitchen makes Scotia a dinner stop in a way the food-truck original is not. We listed the brewery as a runner-up in our guide to breweries near Saratoga Springs, mostly because of the drive. With Route 50 leading straight to the new taproom, that call is worth revisiting. Wolf Hollow Brewing Co. is in our directory.

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