The fine Breweries participating in the Albany Craft Beer Festival!
Click on any name for a list of beers available at the festival...
Beer friendly food will be available, a la carte, from Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, Bayou Café, and the Armory Caterers.
Enjoy live music from Pat Tiernan, The Sessions, and Steve Candlen.
The Blue Point Brewing Company’s delicious beers are largely the result of their commitment to using the highest quality ingredients. Blue Point Brewing’s Brewmasters meticulously examine samples of all their ingredients and review various technical reports on the moisture, nitrogen and enzymatic content of various barley crops so they can select only the best ones from countries like Germany, United Kingdom and Belgium. Some of their hops also come from America and New Zealand as well as from the Pacific Northwest- which are considered to be some of the best quality hops in the world.
“All the ingredients are key … we spend a ton of money on hops, barley and yeast and everything else, it’s really important to get all that stuff.” Alan Brady, BPBC Brewmaster.
Brown's I.P.A. pours an amber gold with a distinctively rich flavor, significant hop aroma and soft, white and creamy head. Two-row pale, two-row brewer's and Carapils malts are blended with the finest quality, Chinook, Cascade, and Mt. Hood hops to brew their complex and very tasty version of India Pale Ale. Malts: Domestic Two Row Pale, Brewer's & Carapils Hops: Chinook, Cascade, & Mt. Hood 6.5% a.b.v.
According to the Association of Brewers, the world’s finest Oatmeal Stout is brewed in Troy, NY by Brown’s Brewing Company. Brown’s Oatmeal Stout took home a Gold Medal at the World Beer Cup held in San Diego, April 2004 – perhaps the most prestigious beer judging event in the world. Malts: Two Row Pale, Black, Chocolate, Flaked Rolled Oats, Caramel Hops: Willamette 5.5% a.b.v.
Hoppy Feet has been lovingly crafted by combining Premium malt with lots of Amarillo and Columbus Hops. Grapefruit and Pine are balanced on the nose and on the palate by a nutty, dark chocolate, roasted backbone.
Dark, rich, roasty and complex, World Wide Stout has more in common with a fine port than a can of cheap, mass-marketed beer. Brewed with a ridiculous amount of barley. Have one with (or as!) dessert tonight! One of Dogfish Head's Limited Availability brews.
Winners of Mid-Sized Brewery/Brewer of the year at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival.
This IPA is Lagunita's unique version of an ancient style. A style as old as the ocean trade routes of the last centuries Great Ships. Not as old as the equator they had to cross twice enroute, nor as old as the 10,000 or so miles of Di-Hydrogen Oxide and Sodium upon which they sailed, but older than the Circulithium-4 Lentloid that binds the Lupulin Quartnate onto your taste buds. Weird. Think about it. Now stop. OK, go again, now stop. Think again, and stop. But we digress. Made with 43 different hops and 65 various malts, this redolent ale will likely float your boat, whatever planet you're on.
Brian O’Reilly's unique interpretations of classic Belgian and German styles have given Sly Fox a national reputation in the world of craft brewing. And there’s always something going on at the Royersford Brewery and Phoenixville Brewpub. Learn about all of our great beers and find out what’s on tap at both locations below.
"New Hampshire's Premier Craft Brewery" Smuttynose was founded in 1994 by the folks who started the Northampton and Portsmouth Breweries. Their beers - Shoals Pale Ale, Old Brown Dog, Star Island Single, “Finestkind” IPA, Big A IPA, Robust Porter, the Big Beer Series & seasonal specialties - Summer Weizen, Pumpkin Ale & Winter Ale - are distributed from Maine to Florida.
Brought forth upon an unsuspecting public in 1997, Arrogant Bastard Ale openly challenged the tyrannical overlords who were brazenly attempting to keep Americans chained in the shackles of poor taste. As the progenitor of its style, Arrogant Bastard Ale has reveled in its unprecedented and uncompromising celebration of intensity. There have been many nods to Arrogant Bastard Ale… even outright attempts to copy it… but only one can ever embody the true nature of liquid Arrogance!