AleCraft Brewery is closing shop in Harford County, the business announced on social media Sunday.
The brewery and tap room — featuring 12 local taps and food from local bakeries and food trucks — has been on Main Street in Bel Air since 2017 and will close Feb. 29.
“We’ve had a great 6 years meeting new friends,” the business wrote on Facebook. “But our time here in Harford County is at an end.”
AleCraft will continue to operate a location about 28 miles away in Railroad, Pennsylvania.
“We hope you don’t become strangers and come to visit us in Railroad Pa. Please stop in to say goodbye (for now) over the next 10 days,” the business wrote on Facebook.
AleCraft tried to open a tasting and brewing facility on Waverly Drive in Bel Air in 2021 but was denied by the Harford County Council, which instituted a moratorium on new farm breweries. The moratorium prompted AleCraft to relocate its hop farm and open a brewery in York County, Pennsylvania.
“We tried to work with the Harford County Council, and members of the County administration to allow us to move forward with an agriculturally zoned property to allow us to expand in our home county of Harford, but we were met with a clear message that there would be no accommodation made for us,” AleCraft co-owner Brad Streett said at the time.
