History
In 2015, after retiring from a 28-year career in the oil refining industry, owner Gary Meyer decided to share his 20+ years of home brewing experience with other beer lovers by opening a nanobrewery. In 2016, he set up a prototype brewery in the 150-year-old brick milk house at the front of his property, a former farmstead on the west bank of Hickory Creek in New Lenox Township. We hosted several successful beer tasting events on our property to raise money for various charities while we waited for our licenses to clear. In August 2017, we signed a lease for 5,000 square feet of space on Laraway Road in New Lenox. The larger space allowed us to upgrade from a nanobrewery to a microbrewery. After an eight-month build-out process (most of which was done by Gary himself, with a lot of help from family and friends), Hickory Creek Brewing finally opened to the public on June 27, 2018 with four beers on tap - the first of many different brews we plan to offer.
Specialties
Hickory Creek Brewing specializes in a mix of unique recipes, traditional styles, and locally grown ingredients for our beers. Our 7-barrel brewing system and small tasting room fit in with our mission to be a neighborhood craft brewery, celebrating our town and the Will County style of life.