"But the most rewarding place of all for a hike might be a beer garden, Upward Brewing Company, in Livingston Manor, another recent opening whose excess of outdoor space now feels radically forward-looking. It would probably be more accurate to call it a dog-friendly beer garden, one with a frog pond for kids and a scattering of picnic tables and shade trees. The hiking option is a wooded private hill the brewery's proprietors have dubbed Beer Mountain."