Craft beer aficionados, take note: A new brewery is opening in Hudson, Wis., with you in mind.

Following the trend of homebrewers going into the brewery business, Hudson resident Mike Fredricksen is working to construct Pitchfork Brewing in time for an anticipated July opening.

Located just off of Interstate 94 next to Paddy Ryan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, the brewery will offer four flagship beers: a pale ale, a nontraditional wit, an India pale ale and a traditional German pilsner. There will also be a variety of rotating beers plucked from the approximately 350 recipes Fredricksen has been working to perfect in his 20 years of homebrewing — beers he hopes will appeal to local homebrewers and beer geeks.

“That is definitely my target market,” he said Wednesday. “To get kudos from beer enthusiasts, that’s kind of what it’s all about.”

Pitchfork Brewing’s taproom will offer a rootbeer made in-house and seven lines of beer, with one beer on a nitrogen line — a different form of carbonation that makes for a creamier beer. It will also offer two firkins — small kegs of naturally carbonated beer — at any given time, with particular attention paid to how the firkins are stored and the beer dispensed.

“I’m hoping to keep the four main staples on and consistent and rotate all the rest of them, so things are fresh and new,” Fredricksen said.

Fredricksen said he also hopes the brewery’s style of production will be an attraction, and he added that a lot of “homebrewing ingenuity” is going into his beers.

“I’ve had a couple people who have been in the brewing industry a long time come through our brewery and comment how they’ve never seen anything quite like it,” he said. “It’s definitely unique.”

Fredricksen, who has partnered with Sarah Edwards in the business, said the brewery will likely be producing about 80 kegs a month. Pitchfork Brewing’s beer will be available at the taproom and in growlers at some Hudson liquor stores.

Fredricksen has been a self-employed painter for the past 13 years. He and his partners are doing much of the construction work themselves, along with the help of friends in the construction business.

“We built pretty much everything that is in our brewery,” he said. “I have tables I made out of pitchforks. Our bar is repurposed cherry flooring that we got out of a house.”

The brewery will also focus on environmentally friendly practices and local ingredients. Fredricksen said he expects most of the beers’ ingredients to be local within a year or two.

Pitchfork Brewing will become the second brewery in Hudson. Hudson Brewing Co., which produces American Sky Beer, debuted last summer, and Fredricksen said he hopes the city is turning into something of a beer town.

“It’s amazing now what the craft beer interest is,” he said. “When I first moved out here (10 years ago), the craft beer selection was kind of crummy for the most part. It’s really gone through the roof.”

For more information, go to pitchforkbrewing.com.

Andy Rathbun can be reached at 651-228-2121. Follow him at twitter.com/andyrathbun.