Time to start planning your 2022. Screw dry January — it’s time to make up for missed events from 2020 and 2021. Gun Hill Brewing Company’s annual Barrel-Aged Beer Fest is back after last year’s pause, scheduled for Saturday, January 15th at their brewery in the Bronx. The celebration of beer by the barrel will run three hours on a Saturday afternoon and feature twenty breweries from New York and elsewhere up and down the East Coast, including Fifth Hammer, KCBC, Wild East, Captain Lawrence, Prison City, Icarus, and Jack’s Abby, just to name a few. The dead of winter is a great time for these lovely, warming beers — and a beer fest is just the trick to lift your spirits during a dark, cold month.
Food and music will be available to accompany these beers, which include a stellar lineup of rarities from the host brewery, like their Void of Light stout aged in Four Roses barrels and their Spirit ‘76 pilsner with short contact in Sauvignon Blanc barrels. They’ll also have four different versions of their Fort Ticonderoga barleywine.
A general admission ticket ($70) not only gets you access to all-you-care-to-sample beer and a glass to keep, but also a 375mL bottle of the 2021 vintage of Gun Hill’s own Proprietor’s Reserve Fort Ticonderoga Rum-Barrel Aged Barleywine. A VIP ticket for $20 more gets you an extra hour at the event and an additional limited-edition bottle to be named later.
Tickets are on sale now through Eventbrite. With the holidays in between, this could make a good gift for the beer lover in your life.
