2 • Saturday, October 15, 2022
Dine local, dine in style
By KORI SCIANDRA
ksciandra@batavianews.com
Fall dining offers comfort
food paired with a pictur-
esque atmosphere while the
cozy weather ties dining-out
altogether. With many local
eateries open this season the
choices are endless.
Batavia Downs at 8315
Park Road, Batavia, contin-
ues to offer fine dining with
a variety of menu items. The
newly renovated Clubhouse is
currently welcoming patrons
to enjoy dining while watch-
ing live racing on Saturdays.
The Homestretch Grill, which
underwent a full renovation, is
offering new menu items fea-
turing specialty pizzas, subs
and more.
“Renovations to the club-
house include putting up giant
graphics depicting old pho-
tos and newspaper clippings
showcasing our history since
the 1940s. We also moved
the buffet to the first floor to
allow for greater access by
those who might have mobility
issues,” said Ryan Hasenauer,
of Batavia Downs Gaming.
There are an abundance of
specials running at the Bata-
The Homestretch Grill if one of several dining options at Batavia
Downs.
Wine & Dine
via Downs, visit https://www.
bataviadownsgaming.com/
hotel-deals/ for a full list of
specials. For a full menu, in-
cluding Chicken Parm and
Scotty K’s Porterhouse Steak,
visit https://www.bataviad-
ownsgaming.com/wp-con-
tent/uploads/2022/06/For-
tunes-Dinner-menu.
For a full racing schedule,
visit bataviadownsgaming.
com.
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An interior view of the banquet The Clubhouse and Rail Bar offers a trackside view at Batavia Downs
hall at Batavia Country Club.
Batavia Country Club, 7909 OPENING OCTOBER 7TH
Batavia-Byron Road, is again FOR FRIDAY
offering dinner every Friday
night as of October. The club
DINNERS 4-8:30 PM
offers weekly specials, includ- • Full Dinner Menu
ing a soup and salad bar. For
more information about din-
• Fish Fries
ner, visit bataviacc.com or call • Soup Station
• Weddings
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• Fundraisers
• Meetings
• Breakfast or Luncheons
• Showers
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• Receptions of All Kinds
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The exterior of Batavia Country Club.
Dine local
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(585) 343-7600.
The country club is booking
parties, corporate functions
and weddings for every sea-
son.
The banquet menu is avail-
able to view on the club’s
website. For more infor-
The Zambistro Bar Room, open 3-10 Thursday-Saturday.
mation about booking, call
(585) 344-8376 or email bc-
clodge@rochester.rr.com.
Cinquino’s Pizza at 314
Ellicott St., Batavia, offers
delicious specialty pizza and
more in addition to its cater-
ing options, which include
antipasto salad, ziti, and a
sub or wrap platter. For more
information or to place an or-
der, visit cinquinospizza.com
Zambistro/Facebook
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The exterior of Cinquino’s Pizza.
or call (585) 343-2447. commodate up to 50 guests. and escargot, to Sicilian piz-
Zambistro Bar Room at 408 The Zambistro Rooftop, open za, a truffle burger, and lob-
Main St., Medina, is open through October, features ster pasta. Enjoy an evening
from 3 to 10 p.m. Thursday a full guest bar and can ac- of rooftop dining or stop in for
through Saturday. The new commodate up to 40 guests. a light lunch. For more infor-
space offers a special bar Dinner menu items feature mation, visit zambistro.com or
and dessert menu and can ac- appetizers such as fried olives call (585) 789-2433.
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4 • Saturday, October 15, 2022
Three Falls Cider debuts in Castile
The Castile Cider Mill has long offered sweet cider, apples and similar products during autumn. It has now
added Three Falls Cider, which will operate year-round.
By MATT SURTEL
msurtel@batavianews.com
CASTILE — The Castile Ci-
der Mill is well-known for its
sweet cider.
But store the popular drink
longer and it becomes a dif-
ferent beverage with an ap-
peal all its own.
Owners Dan and Pam
Chasey debuted their new
business April 16 at the mill
on 29 East Park Rd. Three
Falls Cider features a variety
of hard ciders they’re now
producing year-round at the
operation they’ve owned
since 2008.
“As the business grew, we
thought about different things
we could do with it,” Dan, 61,
said shortly before the rib-
bon cutting. “Eventually we
decided hard cider would be
a good fit. We have a lot of
good equipment on the sweet
cider end we could use for
hard cider and the building’s
pretty big. Basically we were
only using a quarter of it at
the time.”
Three Falls Cider is located
in the building’s rear portion.
It includes newly-built tasting
room featuring taps, a bar
and tables.
Behind them — and beyond
the general public’s view —
is a row of tanks producing
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Dan Chasey took numer-
ous classes through the Cor-
nell Cooperative Extension to
learn the chemistry involved
in producing hard cider,
along with the old-style heir-
loom varieties that make the
best product.
He said the older varieties
— some developed specifical-
ly for hard ciders — are better
than the sweet cider “dessert
apples.”
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“That kind of set ourselves
up and that was four or five
years ago,” Chasey said.
“Everything’s come to fruition
now. We got our license last
August and started ferment-
ing our first vintages over the
winter. Right now we have
nine ciders and we’ll proba-
bly bring on another one.”
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Dan Chasey shows the tank room at Three Falls Cider in Castile. He said heirloom apples
are better for making hard ciders.
Three Falls
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yeasts and apples to create ci-
ders ranging from semi-sweet
to semi-dry. The Chaseys try
to stay away from lots of sug-
ar and flavorings, in order to
bring out the essence of the
apples they’re using, as with
traditional hard ciders.
Northern Spy is one their
more-common base apples
used in hard ciders. Harrison
is another variety — it was
once commonly used in New
Jersey’s hard cider industry,
which was sizable and signifi-
cant about 120 years ago.
“Right now with our pro-
cesses and the yeasts we’re
using, and the apples, there’s
a few that you could essen-
tially with a month or month-
and-a-half,” Chasey said.
“But really for blending and
different ciders, you want to
have I would say two or three
months of aging on them. Af-
ter that, a lot of apple charac-
teristics are there in the cider.”
They develop the cider rec-
ipes on paper at first. Then
comes testing a small batch,
including measuring acid lev-
els, taking hydrometer read-
ings, and gauging the amount
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of solids present every few
days throughout the fermenta-
tion process.
“A big thing is, you have a
lot of off-flavors that can get
in your cider if you let the acid
start to drop, once it gets too
basic,” Chasey said.
It typically takes about 60
bushels to fill one of the mill’s
1,000 liter tanks, he said.
Beyond adding the cider, the
operation is also bringing in a
mobile canning unit and plans
to add a deck this summer.
And not to worry — when
autumn arrives, the mill will
Wine & Dine
Cider maker Tim Hawley pours drinks from the tap on Saturday at Three Falls Cider in
Castile.
still offer its sweet cider and
related products as tradition-
al.
“It will be quite hectic,”
Chasey said, laughing a bit.
“We will see how the season
plays out.”
Hard cider was at one point
the nation’s drink of choice, he
said. Three Falls Cider intends
to help rekindle and maintain
that tradition.
What’s the best part?
“I think in the beginning it’s
just getting the different ap-
ples and putting them together
in different combinations, be-
Saturday, October 15, 2022 • 5
Daily News File Photo
cause you’re always looking else may not be onto yet,”
for something that somebody Chasey said.
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6 • Saturday, October 15, 2022
Explore craft beer, wine and
cider along Livingston Libation Loop
Livingston County is home
to several renowned brewer-
ies, wineries, and cideries that
source local ingredients and
offer the perfect opportunity
to enjoy time with friends and
family over a pint.
Known as the Livingston
Libation Loop, the establish-
ments were born out of the
“Brew in Livingston” compe-
tition that was announced in
June 2016. Livingston County
Economic Development was
able to fund the creation, de-
velopment, and launch of five
breweries in Livingston Coun-
ty. The trail has grown into a
county-wide trail with the ad-
dition of established wineries
and new breweries and cider-
ies that allow visitors to taste
all types of alcohol while ex-
ploring multiple communities.
Here’s a capsule look:
Battle Street Brewery, 4
Battle St., Dansville, info@
battlestreetbrewer y.com,
(585) 432-2337. In 1870,
the Dansville and Mount Mor-
ris Railroad began operation,
a 15-mile standard-gauge
short-line that ran inde-
pendently until it was sold in
1985. Since then, the Dans-
ville Mount Morris depot has
remained unused, a priceless
historical building, and a re-
pository of local history and
tradition. Long in need of
restoration, the depot has re-
emerged as the Battle Street
Brewery.
Mortalis Brewing Compa-
ny, 5660 Tec Drive, Avon,
info@mortalisbrewing.com,
(585) 438-4200. Mortalis
Brewing Company is a startup
brewery in Livingston County,
ranked highly nationwide on
Untapped, this is a must-stop
for beer enthusiasts. A range
of delicious and unconven-
tional beers using the finest
ingredients and providing pa-
trons with a relaxed and un-
pretentious tasting room ex-
perience where everyone can
find a beer they will enjoy.
No BS Brew Company,
3474 Bronson Hill Rd., Li-
vonia, nobsbrewcompany@
gmail.com, (585) 346-7268.
No BS Brew Company is nes-
tled near the north end of
Conesus Lake. It features an
average of 15 beers on tap
on any given day as well as
mixed drinks, local wine and
slushies of all sorts.
Rising Storm Brewing Com-
pany, 5750 South Lima Rd.,
Avon, info@risingstormbrew-
ing.com, (585) 572-3009.
Rising Storm Brewing Com-
pany is a small-scale micro-
brewery set on a 12.5 acre
picturesque property.
Dublin Corners Farm Brew-
ery, 1906 Main St., Linwood,
dublincornersfarm@gmail.
com, (585) 538-4796. Dublin
Corners – Livingston County’s
first farm brewery – is a farm
“nano” brewery in the town
of York, serving up tastings
of fresh local brews Fridays,
Saturdays and Sundays. In
2019, brewery owners Justin
and Heather Grant opened
the Dublin Corners Tap Room,
116 Main St., Geneseo. For
Tap Room information, call
Wine & Dine
(585) 447-9416. Vineyard Rd., Conesus, lisa@ taining operation of the old-
Strange Design Public onehda.com, (585) 346- est sacramental winery in the
House, 4570 Millennium 5760. Above the western New World.
Drive, Geneseo, (585) 245- shores of Hemlock Lake in Woodlawn Distilling will be
9015. Strange Design is lo- New York’s renowned Finger the first distillery in Livingston
cated in a historic space that Lakes Wine Region stands County and the surrounding
was once the Livingston Coun- O-Neh-Da and Eagle Crest areas providing craft liquor to
ty Poor House. As Geneseo’s Vineyards, one of America’s locals and visitors. This farm-
very first brewery and public oldest wineries. Established based, family-run distillery
house, owners Kristi and Tom- in 1872 as O-Neh-Da Vine- owned by Matthew and Ja-
my Streamer seek to create yard, Eagle Crest produces clyn Morgan offers high-qual-
something rich where all are small-batch table wines made ity, locally sourced liquor that
welcome. from 100% Finger Lakes- is made with ingredients used
OSB Ciderworks, 5901 grown grapes, while main- from the family farm.
Big Tree Rd., Lakeville, stump-
blower@gmail.com, (585)
346-7027. Operated by
siblings Elise and Eric Smith,
OSB Ciderworks uses New
York State apples and other
local ingredients to ferment
tasty libations for locals and 301 West Main Street
cider enthusiasts alike. Locat-
ed on the north end of Cone- 343.2139
sus Lake, OSB is a convenient Monday-Friday 8:30-5:00 • Saturday 8:30-2:00
tasting spot for some of New Closed Sunday
York’s finest cider.
Deer Run Winery, 3772 Open to the Public!
West Lake Rd., Geneseo, Always has been... Always will be!
(585) 346-0850. Deer Run
Winery is the oldest operating
winery on Conesus Lake and
Curbside and Take Out Available
the Westernmost Finger Lake
winery. It is a family-run farm
winery with a tasting room that
is open year-round. Located
high above the northwestern
edge of Conesus Lake, visitors
can tour the vineyard, tasting
room, and gift shop.
O-Neh-Da Vineyard, 7107
Wednesday
Night is
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Cider season is here! that were sealed and buried of hard apple cider.
on the property to ferment for For many generations this
generations. The barrels were dairy farm has run a U-Pick
eventually dug up for orchard along Glen Iris
parties, celebra- Road at the en-
tions or for pure trance to Letch-
enjoyment. worth State
All of Park.
the apples The cider
used at Bur- you’ll enjoy
ied Barrel when you
come from visit is a toast
the Pankow to their herit-
U-Pick Farms in age and a way
Castile – it doesn’t to keep this spe-
get any more farm-to- cial land and orchard
table than this. Stop in during in production for future gen-
the weekends for a tasting erations.
and pick up cans and/or kegs CHEERS!

Wyoming County Chamber of Commerce

Castile Cider Mill offers freshly made apple cider, donuts and the popular cider slushy. They also have an
abundance of produce and locally-made goods. Next door is the new Three Falls Cider.

By WYOMING COUNTY
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
If you like cider, or hard ci-
der - here we gooooo!
The Castile Cider Mill,
29 East Park Rd., Castile, is
open for the season, offering
fresh cider pressed on site,
cider slushies, apples, pears,
plums, and grapes. They also
have frycakes made daily, as
well as salt rising bread, pies,
cheeses, jams, honey, bees-
wax, candles, fudge, mus-
tards, pumpkins, gourds and
more.
The Castile Cider Mill is
open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
from September through No-
vember.
While you’re there, stop
by Three Falls Cider next
door for a variety of delicious
hard ciders, made from lo-
cally-sourced apples. Three
Falls Cider produces artisan
hand crafted hard cider that
is pressed, blended, and aged
on site. Their goal is to contin- from the Castile entrance to
uously develop and craft crisp Letchworth State Park – is Bur-
and refreshing ciders to be ied Barrel Hard Cider, 6517
enjoyed by all. Denton Corners Rd., Castile.
Nearby – and just a mile The name comes from barrels
343-1547
214 E. Main St.
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