Cushwa Brewing Company: Beyond the Haze Hype

January 25 marked the one-year anniversary of the highly esteemed Cushwa Brewing Company, located in Williamsport, MD. Over the past year, Cushwa has gotten a lot of hype for their run of aromatic, hazy, and fruity hop-focused New England IPAs. Not being much of a haze fan myself, I decided to visit the brewery and find out both how the hype around Cushwa stacked up against the reality and what they had to offer beyond hazy IPAs. Scott and Garrett, two of Cushwa’s owners (along with their partner-owner Marcus), were kind enough to meet with me and talk about their business and their philosophy around beer.

All three of Cushwa’s founders are local boys. Scott and Marcus are high school friends from Greencastle, Pennsylvania, just across the state line from Hagerstown, and Garrett is a native of Boonsboro. Garrett and Scott actually met through Untapp’d, go figure, a few years ago. After meeting through Untapp’d, Garrett made a move to Vermont*, but Scott eventually managed to convince