By Julia Burke, Beer Editor A year ago, for my first-ever NYCR post, I wrote about the Niagara Escarpment's first modern commercial hop grower, Mike Sieczkowski, who planted two rows of hops on Budd Road in Niagara County and found unexpected success. This week, I tried a Flying Bison Brewing Company pilot batch beer made from Sieczkowski's hops. "It is a fresh-hopped american pale ale made with my locally grown Nugget hops and has an ABV of 6.2%," he explained in an email. The beer is the first in a series that Flying Bison brewmaster Tim Herzog will brew to…
