Beer festival season is coming back as the weather warms up, and one local brewery is reviving a celebration of IPAs, while another is making a second attempt to hold a festival in Rhode Island.
Green City: An Other Half Experience will return this year after a nearly three-year hiatus, this time over two days — June 17th and 18th at Zerospace on Baltic Street in Brooklyn, the same venue where their Pastrytown event was held last fall. The festival will have a Friday night and a Saturday afternoon session, with ticket options to attend one or both. Among the dozens of breweries participating this year are Colorado’s Cerebral, Oregon’s Great Notion, Maryland’s Cushwa, Florida’s Dream State, and lots of New York representation from the likes of Fidens, KCBC, Barrier, Root + Branch, and Mortalis. Food vendors and, yes, wrestling will be in the mix again, as will a hop-forward Green City beer package that will offer a case of exclusive beers for the event. Tickets are on sale now, starting at $100 for general admission.
Meanwhile, Finback Brewery is taking their celebration on the road. Whale Watching, the brewery’s very first invitational beer festival originally scheduled for late March of 2020, will be held in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on Saturday, May 21st. The event, along the banks of the historic Blackstone River, and will feature over fifty breweries from across the country, including New England outfits like Tilted Barn, Schilling, Fox Farm, and Vitamin Sea, plus sought-after beers from 450 North, Burial, Southern Grist, and Horus Aged Ales. Why Rhode Island? Well, why not? (Actually, Finback co-founder Basil Lee is from Rhode Island, so that has a lot to do with it. And so is this blog’s author, so he’s excited for this, too.) Tickets for the event start at $80.
