Rochester Beer Week 14 - 23 June 2013

Can't wait coming home from cuse both weekends. See you all at the expo and old toad cask fest for sure. Did the real 5k last year and debating doing that again.

 

Coaching two baseball teams keeps me from going to many things, but I will be at the Cask Festival at Old Toad on Friday night!

 

This is THE beer fest for Rochester...
Everyone knows the early one is just a joke
The middle one pulls out all the stops
The oldest one still rocks I pour beer for that one.

 

Willy 3:16

 

early one is the expo?
Any suggestions on the middle ones? Thinking of going to the nebco event and Tap and Mallet, Troegs at Lovin Cup, Extreme Beer Fest, and or Great Lakes meet the the brewer at Lovin Cup
Oldest one the cask fest?

 

Roc City Beer fest in Jan is first / worst
South Wedge fest is best
Rohrbachs is the oldest in Sept.

 

I think the Expo is a great event personally. Good beer, music and food. Yeah, the ticket price is a bit high, but it does help filter out people who may disrupt the fest anyways... If the weather stays clear it probably will be one of the best parties of summer in Rochester. I find it funny if anyone thinks the brewers list isn't that good. They have 5 brewers which have been in the market for about a year or less. Founders, NEBCO, Ballast Point, Captain Lawrence, Left Hand. It's especially fun to take people who are just getting into craft beer and exposing them to the awesomeness. Hope to see you all there!

That troegs to sounds like it might be one to stop by..

Also, I can promise you if you like cask beers, the Old Toad cask festival will not be one to miss this year. I believe they may have driven to out of market breweries for casks...

 

Beer list looks solid as ever.. Cant wait to see what Evil Twin breaks out

And here is the nearly-complete list of beers that will be pouring:

TENT 1 (Gregory Street)

Crispin Hard Cider Co / Colfax, CA
Original Cider

Blackbird CiderWorks / Barker, NY
Premium Draft Cider
Red Barn Farm Style

Ace Cider / Sebastopol, CA
Ace Perry Cider
Ace Joker

Victory Brewing / Downingtown, PA
Mandarina Bitter
Tettnang Pils

Southhampton Ales & Lagers / Southhampton, NY
Big Brown Ale
Burton IPA

Weihenstephan / Bavaria, Germany
Hoplosion
Fresh Hop

Southern Tier Brewing / Lakewood, NY
Innerloop Maple Farmhouse Ale
Plum Noir Chocolate Stout
Choklat

Founders Brewing / Grand Rapids, MI
Breakfast Stout
Double Trouble

Brooklyn Brewery / New York, NY
There Will Be Black
Scorcher

Brewery Ommegang / Cooperstown, NY
Fleur de Houblon
Game of Thrones

Duvel USA / Cooperstown, NY
Goudenband
Fruitesse

Great Lakes Brewing / Cleveland, OH
Imperial Smoked Porter
Christmas Ale

Wegmans
Franziskaner Hefeweisen
Weihenstephan Hefeweisen
Brooklner Weisse
Sierra Nevada Keller Weisse
Harpoon UFO

TENT 2 (Gregory Street)

Harpoon Brewery / Boston, MA
Directors Cut 100 Barrel (Pale Stout Mix)
Hoppy Belgian Blond 100 Barrel

Sam Adams / Boston, MA
Double Agent
Honey Queen
Little White Rye
Norse Legend
Vixen
White Lantern

Saranac / Lake Placid / Utica, NY
Saranac Wild Hop Pils
Lake Placid Wolf Wit

Latis Imports
Boon Kriek
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Rodenbach

Captain Lawrence / Elmsford, NY
Pilot Brews (Dunkel)
Sunblock
Golden Delicious

Sierra Nevada Brewing / Chico, CA
Southern Hemisphere CASK
Barrel Aged Big Foot
Belgian Blonde IPA
Blindfold Black IPA
Hoptimum Double IPA

Ithaca Beer Co. / Ithaca, NY
2X White Gold
2 x 15
Nuthabit Blend Pin

Stone Brewing / Escondido, CA
Espresso IRS
Double Dry Hop Ruination
Levitation

Ballast Point / San Diego, CA
Wahoo Wheat Thai Chili
Levonian (saison)
Homework Hoppy Red
Black Marlin Chipotle

Empire Brewing / Syracuse, NY
Deep Purple
Kubal

Oskar Blues / Brevard, NC
TBA

Stoudts Beer / Adamstown, PA
Smooth Hoperator
Heifer in Wheat

Uinta Brewing / Salt Lake City, UT
Hop Notch IPA
Dubhe Black IPA

Elysian Brewing / Seattle, WA
Yuzu
Space Dust
Mens Room

Dogfish Head / Milton, DE
61 Minute
FestinaPeche
Positive Contact

Anderson Valley Brewing Co. / Boonville, CA
Nettied Madge Black IPA
Centennial Pils
Wild Turkey Bourbon Barrel Stout
El Steinber

Sly Fox Brewing Company / Pottstown, PA
Saphir Pils
Simon Mai Bock

Middle Ages Brewing / Syracuse, NY
17th Anni (Session IPA)
Beast Bitter

Left Hand Brewing / Longmont, CO
Fade to Black
Wake Up Dead
Weak Sauce

Smuttynose Brewing Co. / Portsmouth, NH
Really Old Brown Dog
Farmhouse Ale
Luna Moth

Lagunitas Brewing Co. / Petaluma, CA
Farmhouse Saison
Maximus Double IPA

Green Flash Brewing Co. / San Diego, CA
Park West Porter
Hop Odyssey

TENT 3 (Cayuga Street)

Joe Bean & ROC Brewing / Rochester, NY
Dark Mild
Union 56 Pale Ale

Rohrbachs / Rochester, NY
TBA

Naked Dove / Canandaigua, NY
Flemish Red
Helles Lager
Roy Boy Pale
Double IPA

Three Heads / Brighton, NY
Kind
Country Scwheat
Scwheat CASK

CB’s Brewing / Honeoye Falls, NY
White Hop
Experiment X
Cassie CASK

Rogers Beer Co. / Rochester, NY
Hound Dog Belgian Brown Ale
Mutt Double IPA

TENT 4 (Right of Stage)

Unity Vibration / Ypsilanti, Michigan
Kombucha Pale Ale
Beer Bourbon Peach

New England Brewing / Woodbridge, CT
Ghandi Bot Double IPA
Sea Hag IPA

Stillwater Artisinal Ales / Baltimore, MD
Cellar Door

Evil Twin Brewing / Brooklyn, NY
TBA

Global Beer
Wittekerk Witte
Petrus oud bruin

 

Make sure you get to the CB's booth and try Experiment X. Best local IPA ever.

 

according to the Rochester Beer Expo Facebook page they pulled stone from the line up and are replacing it with Thornbridge. Kinda bummed about them scratching Espresso RIS.

Edit: it also looks like goose is missing from their original list of breweries.

 

Wow, I am really stoked about this. Great line up!

 

oh man sooo many beers to try i wish there were 2 sessions as there is no way I'll be able to try all that I want. So psyched to see new england brewing attend. I'll be wearing my sea hag shirt from 2005 proud tomorrow night.

 

And there is none left at the brewery and no plans to brew it again.

 

They are god damn insane if they never brew that again. Hopefully they let Alex brew more IPAs then because that man is a master of hops.

 

Thanks for the heads up on the experiment X. I usually try to build up to the hoppy beers at fests but looks like I'll make an exception.

elysian space dust is very solid. The ithaca nut brown/habit blend cask looks interesting.

What are everyone else's must-trys from the list?

 

Seahag and Gandi Bot, Plum Noir, Wake Up Dead and Fade to Black , Imp smoked porter and of course the Experiment X

 

I agree on the space dust

 

Goudenband was a surprise and quite good indeed just perfect for a summer day
Experiment X was a HIT and needs to in full production stat