Good news, everyone: If you're feeling like there are just too many local breweries to keep track of these days – let alone visit or sample – a new beer festival coming this April will assemble a whole bunch in one place for your tasting pleasure.
Power Beer Festival is a brand new event put on by the Massachusetts Brewers Guild, the only event, in fact, hosted by the organization in the state with the goal of raising funds for "educational and marketing programs for local breweries" and supporting its "government affairs work at the legislative level."
The festival takes place Saturday, April 29, at the SoWa Power Station in two sessions – 1 to 4:30 p.m. and 6 to 9:30 p.m. – effectively kicking off the season for the SoWa Open Market.
Some 50 breweries, all from Massachusetts, will be in attendance, making this, according to Guild president Rob Burns, "the largest gathering of MA brewers that have ever been assembled under one roof.
"This festival is unique because it's a festival for Mass. brewers by Mass. brewers," Burns continued. "It will really highlight the amazing beer that is being made in our state. The funds from the festival go to support our efforts throughout the year in promoting and protecting the killer beer scene that has been evolving in MA."
Tickets are $55 each and on sale now. Here are the participating breweries:
Three Beards Beer Company Aeronaut Brewing Company Bad Martha Battle Road Brewing Company Bent Water Brewing Co. Berkley Beer Company Berkshire Brewing Company Big Elm Brewing, Bolton Beer Works Boston Beer Works Brazo Fuerte Artisanal Beer Brew Practitioners LLC Bright Ideas Brewing Cambridge Brewing Company Cape Ann Brewing Co. Cape Cod Beer Castle Island Brewing Co. Cisco Brewers Clown Shoes Beer Cold Harbor Brewing Company Devil’s Purse Brewing Co. Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing Co. Flying Dreams Brewing Co. Idle Hands Craft Ale Independent Fermentations (IndieFerm) Ipswich Ale Brewery Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers Lamplighter Brewing Co. Lefty’s Brewing Co. Lord Hobo Brewing Co. Mass Bay Brewing Co. Mayflower Brewing Company Medford Brewing Company Medusa Brewing Company Merrimack Ales Moon Hill Brewing Co. New City Brewery Newburyport Brewing Co. Night Shift Brewing Old Planters Outlook Farm Brewery Portico Brewing River Styx Brewing Riverwalk Brewing Co. Salt Box Kitchen Samuel Adams Boston Brewery Somerville Brewing Company Spencer Brewery Start Line Brewing Company The Tap Brewing Company True West Brewery Wachusett Westfield River Brewing Winter Hill Brewing Co. Wormtown
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