Our Story
Welcome to Tilted Barn Brewery
Hi! We’re Kara & Matt Richardson, and we’re the owners of Tilted Barn Brewery, Rhode Island’s original farm brewery. Along with our amazing Barn Crew, we’ve been cranking out beer on our family farm since 2014 in Exeter, Rhode Island. It’s been an incredible adventure and we’re so excited to share our passion with you all! Our beginnings are rooted in farming but have grown to a place we never thought 4 simple ingredients like water, grain, yeast, and hops would ever take us. Thank you for supporting our love for beer and for being a part of our story!
Planting the Seed
The Root of It all
In 2007 we founded Ocean State Hops, Rhode Island's first commercial hop farm, fueled by a passion to cram as many hops into each batch of beer as humanly possible and supply other brewers looking to quench their thirst for hops. Over the years we enjoyed supplying hops to local homebrewers and breweries alike. This venture cultivated the idea of opening our own brewery on the family farm.
OlD Barn Days
After a few experimental homebrew batches we felt it was time to convert our century old barn into what would come to be known as the original Tilted Barn. Once we were able to restore the main section of the Barn into our tasting room and turn the attached former horse stables into our production area, we had ourselves a beautiful spot to launch our very own brewery.
The motivation behind Tilted Barn Brewery has always been to keep Kara's family tradition of farming alive while adding our own modern twist for craft beer and the art of brewing. A trip to our farm brewery is beyond that of the normal brewery experience. Visitors to the brewery can get a firsthand look at what goes into each batch of our hand-crafted beer. You'll get to learn a little history of not only farming in our area but hop farming throughout all of New England (Matt could go on for hours about that...). Walking through the fields and looking over our tranquil farm, you’re able to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Our original Barn served us well and we’ll never forget the joy that it brought us, but it is now back to being a Barn on a farm. Our adventure has since taken us up the hill to a new and exciting chapter of our story, moving into our expansive 10,000 sqft authentic, New England-style post and beam barn crafted for us by the incredible team at South County Post & Beam, right down the road.
Growing into the New Barn
THE BUILD
THE GROWTH
After a few years of planning and construction starting during a pandemic, in November of 2020 we moved Tilted Barn Brewery up the hill into our new Barn. It was important for us to maintain the same peaceful, old world feelings people had when visiting our original Barn by sticking with an authentic New England-style post and beam structure, but just scaled up a bit this time. With an expansive tasting room including a mezzanine overlooking our new 30bbl brewhouse and offering up to 19 different beers on draft, we are so excited to be able to share a larger space to enjoy our passion with you all. Our hope is that Tilted Barn Brewery will provide you with a unique and memorable experience while continuing to help revive the farm brewery tradition of New England that was lost long ago.
