We believe the time has come for Granite Roots to pause on re-opening (at least for the 2025 season).  During this pause we will be working on the possibility of moving Granite Roots to a new location; one better suited to the experience we’d like to provide customers, staff and musicians.  As fun as the current location has been, we’ve always had to run it in a bootstrapped fashion and the lack of any real permanent or sizable retail structure has been far from ideal when hit with regular New England weather.  We made it work (kinda), but it wasn’t the easiest!  This winter brought some crazy cold temps causing damage to frozen/burst pipes and water damage throughout the brewery building. This helped seal the deal on winding down activities at our current location and the search for something more appropriate. We’ve got a few ideas and are beginning to put things in motion to continue Granite Roots better than ever at a pretty rad new location.

At this time two of our founding members, Fenella & Anthony will also be retiring out of the business.  We wish them nothing but enjoyment in this new chapter and hopefully some well deserved R&R and quality time as brand-new grandparents!  There is no doubt they will be kicking around the new location and ready to share a pint when that time comes.

We’d like to personally thank all of our customers, musicians, vendors and employees over the years for all the incredible times at our 244 North Main St. location.  You guys came out in rain, shine, blizzards, blistering heat, pandemics – you name it, and for that we are so thankful.  We ate, drank, danced and laughed in our tiny tap room & humble beer garden.  We will look back at the memories of patrons sharing smiles, laughs & beers along with all the gatherings & music performances as one of the coolest things we’ve been a part of. It’s certainly been an eventful ride!  Until we can hopefully get back to that we hope you have a wonderful summer supporting local businesses, breweries and musicians throughout the region.  We hope to see you out there somewhere!

We’ll share more of our hopeful move as things develop.

What a year we had celebrating all that the Monadnock region had to offer with a side of delicious beer, wood fired pizza and live music.

Thank you to our incredible staff Alexis, Danielle, Kyle, and Charlie. Your dedication, hard work, and smiles allowed Granite Roots to be enjoyed by beer lovers throughout New Hampshire and beyond in 2024.

Thank you to the Granite Roots wood fired Pizza team Tim and Olivia. Nothing beats a delicious wood fired, farm fresh, locally sourced pizza with a pint!

Thank you to all of the artists that brought the good vibes to the beer garden and beer hall in 2024.

Thank you to all of our customers. The first-timers as well as those that spent countless afternoons with us in 2024. We exist for you!

To show our appreciation to the familiar faces we saw throughout the year, we have some gifts.

After discussions with the team we have decided to shift our on-site retail/Beer House to a seasonal model, with our last weekend of the winter being Jan 13th & 14th 2024. and an estimated re-opening in May. Although we love our unique and quirky set up, we’ll be the first to admit it’s not the best suited for the true winter temps and sometimes heavy snows here in Southwest N.H. (take that wet 3.5ft storm in March which crushed all our beer domes as an example!) With increased operating costs and the challenges winter presents to our set up, it can be tough to run in an effective and efficient manner.

We will take this time to make some upgrades, plan some cool additions to the beer garden this spring and also welcome 2 new babies to the team (Congrats Chris & Mike!)

Brewing will continue this winter for wholesale, including a couple exciting new brews hitting soon enough. We’ll keep our website up to date on where to find us throughout the 60ish stores/restaurants in NH and we will plan to do some more updates on social media outlining where/when to find our beer.

We’d like to thank everyone that’s taken the time to stop in for a pint, beer to-go, caught a show and shared a smile. We would love to see as many of you as we can in these final 3 weekends of winter business, but those of you that we miss get out and enjoy some great local beers in the area this winter and we can’t wait to welcome you all back in May!

Wishing everyone a healthy and safe holiday season with those most important to you.

-the Granite Roots team

The taproom and beer garden are closed for the Winter.

We’ll be opening Spring 2024
Read more about it here

Get updates about the reopening here

We’re continuing to brew fresh batches which can be purchased in 60+ stores and restaurants across NH. 

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Below are some local favorites for nearby food options that either deliver to the brewery or that are a short drive away (less than 5 mins). You are always more than welcome to bring your own food on days that we do not have a food truck so we just wanted to give you a little snapshot of what’s available in the area!

Royal Spice

Troy Pizza Barn

Thai Bamboo

Crossroads Pizza

Dragon Palace

Troy Deli

Back to Brew News.

Dear valued customers, with a 5,000+ sq ft beer garden we believe we can offer a safe space for you to enjoy some frosty cold beers in the sun this holiday weekend and throughout the summer.

We will have the beer garden open from here on out following our regular hours unless otherwise posted.

Please read below for updated Covid operating and sanitation procedures:

• Please read below for updated Covid operating and sanitation procedures:
• 5,000sq ft beer garden with 14+ seating areas spaced anywhere from 15 to 30 feet apart
• Please enter beer garden directly from the gate by the parking lot entrance.
• Tap room will be closed-Outside bar for ordering and outside hand washing station for patrons-Full pours only (no flights).
• Full pours will be into single use Biodegradable cups to prevent re-use and handling for staff-Ample hand sanitizer throughout venue
• Everything sanitized and wiped down regularly-Credit card purchased only at this time.
• New contactless card/chip readers so you never have to hand over your card-Staff will be wearing gloves and masks, we encourage patrons to also wear masks when not seated/consuming
• Parties will need to be kept to 6 or less. Tables are first come first serve-We ask that you please respect social distancing from those not in your party, we have the space!
• Directional walk way to bathroom; entrance from back of beer garden to brewery, exit from front of brewery to beer garden.
• Four packs of bottles and cans will still be available for curbside pickup if you wish to remain in your car. Online store will remain up and running
• Now that taps are back up and running, we will resume growler fills

Check out what’s on tap here:

We are excited to share that we have just completed our first canning run of Lost In A Rainbow IPA. We aggressively dry hopped with Mosaic and Mandarina Bavaria. The result is a crisp, clean, IPA bursting with citrus flavors and aromas of tangerine and sweet orange peel.

Thank you to all of the craft beer stores that support NH breweries that self distribute. Click on the Lost In The Rainbow labels on the Google Map below to see who has Lost In the Rainbow for sale.

Bryan pictured proudly showing off his most recent liquid art creation. Bryan’s liquid art, while visually appealing is crafted to be primarily enjoyed by your sense of taste and smell.

Greenway APA: 5.2% American Pale Ale. A bit more malty sweetness than an IPA and a more restrained bitterness. This beer was designed to be an easy drinking beer that has a good amount flavor.

• The wheat in it helps to smooth out the body and contributes to a bit of haze.
• The caramel malts are the cause of the malty sweetness, lending a very light caramel to honey flavor to the beer.
• Cascade and Flaconer’s Flight 7 C’s were used in this beer. Both were added at the end of the boil for flavor and aroma additions and then more cascade was added as dry hops for 3 days before crashing.

Hop notes:
Falconer’s Flight 7’Cs: 7 C’s stands for the 7 main US hops (Blend of 7 popular “C” hop varieties Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, Citra, Cluster, Columbus and Crystal plus additional experimental varieties)
Aroma: Citrus/grapefruit character alongside fruity, spicy, and earthy notes

Cascade: Traditional American hop
Aroma: Strong spicy, floral, grapefruit character