60+ breweries will help kick off SoWa’s opening weekend next month
Say hello to spring.
A massive new beer festival spotlighting suds from 60 Massachusetts breweries is descending on a corner of the South End for one day in April. The Power Beer Fest will bring together the lengthy lineup of breweries, which will serve two-ounce pours of up to four of their brews,
according to Rob Burns, president of the Massachusetts Brewers Guild and a co-founder of Night Shift Brewing.
“Sixty times four—that’s a lot of different beers. It’s not recommended that you try them all,” Burns said. “A ticket buys you as many samples as you can responsibly consume.”
The festival, complete with superhero-themed iconography, is a fundraiser for the Brewers Guild, a nonprofit that promotes the interests of craft brewers in Massachusetts. More than 120 craft breweries currently operate in the state, and dozens more are slated to open in 2017, according to a guild spokesperson.
“Everyone in the state was invited,” Burns said. “[The festival] will be the most Massachusetts brewers ever in one room. … This is different than other beer festival because it is put on by the brewers, for the brewers. It’s solely focused on local beer.”
Participating breweries include:
- Aeronaut Brewing Company
- Amherst Brewing Co.
- Bad Martha
- Battle Road Brewing Company
- Bent Water Brewing Co.
- Berkley Beer Company
- Berkshire Brewing Company
- Big Elm Brewing
- Bog Iron 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.
- Dorchester Brewing Co.
- Down the Road Brewing Co.
- Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing Co.
- Flying Dreams Brewing Co.
- Harpoon Brewery
- Hopsters
- 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.
- Mayflower Brewing Company
- Medford Brewing Company
- Medusa Brewing Company
- Merrimack Ales
- Mighty Squirrel
- 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
- Three Beards Beer Company
- True West Brewery
- Wachusett
- Westfield River Brewing
- Winter Hill Brewing Co.
- Wormtown
The beer fest coincides with the opening weekend of the popular SoWa Open Market, which is the largest of its kind in the city. It’s filled with artisan wares, locally farmed produce, food trucks, and other handmade goodies, and will be open every Saturday and Sunday from April 29 to October 29.
21+. Saturday, April 29, from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the SoWa Power Station, 540 Harrison Ave., South End. Tickets cost $55. Proceeds benefit the Massachusetts Brewers Guild.
