History on Tap Craft Beer Festival June 2nd

The Genesee Country Village & Museum (GCV&M) near Rochester will host a “History on Tap” festival on Friday, June 2nd. Visitors can sample craft beer, wine, hard cider, mead, and non-alcoholic beverages from local craft breweries and vendors, enjoy live music, tour a working 19th-century brewery, try GCV&M’s historical beers brewed by Rohrbach Brewing Co. referencing 19th-century recipes, play lawn games on the Village Square, and more.

Visitors to “History on Tap” will have the opportunity to sample craft beers, wines, and ciders from nearly 30 local craft beverage partners, in addition to the Museum’s two historic beers brewed by Rohrbachs brewing Co.: Stocking Hill Ale and Fat Ox Ale. Tastings set throughout the Village Square will give visitors the opportunity to enjoy the Museum grounds after hours.

Attendees can purchase handcrafted beer steins made on-site at Genesee Country Village & Museum by the village potter and have them filled with the Museum’s historic beers. In addition to the Museum’s culinary offerings, visitors can enjoy fare from the Rollin’ Deep food truck, Florida Nut House, and Laughing Gull Chocolates. Live music in the Beer Garden and on the Village Square stage will be provided by Andrew Young and USP The Band.

Craft Beverage Vendors will include:

– Rohrbach Brewing Company
– Talking Cursive Brewing Company
– Sager Beer Works
– Lilly Belle Meads
– Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard
– Victorianbourg Wine Estate
– Leonard Oakes Estate Winery
– Brickyard Brewing Company
– Brewery Ardennes
– Krooked Tusker Distillery
– Iron Smoke Distillery
– Woodlawn Distilling
– Heroes Brewing Company
– Blue Toad Hard Cider
– Steampunk Cider
– Mountain Mule Ciderhouse
– Katbootcha
– VioTea
– XS Energy Drink
– Beer Pass Roc
– Bee Spit Meadery
– Eli Fish Brewing Co.
– Dublin Corners Farm Brewery
– Brindle Haus Brewing Co.
– Nine Spot Brewing
– Freestyle Mercantile

Visitors will have the opportunity to tour Grieve’s Brewery, a reconstruction of a c. 1803 Geneva, NY brewery. GCV&M is the only museum in the United States to showcase a working 19th-century brewery. The 1803-themed brewing demonstrations rely on gravity during much of the process, with liquids either pumped by hand or ladled into troughs throughout the building.

Portions of Rochester’s old Enright Brewery (closed in 1907) and an early timber-framed structure near West Bloomfield, were merged to form the present building. Beside the brewery, visitors will find a Hop House (built c. 1870 in Greece), surrounded by a small hop yard. Hops grown at the Museum are harvested in the late summer during the annual Hop Harvest Festival (Saturday, September 2nd), a celebration of craft beer and the history of brewing in the region.

This program will take place from 5:30 to 8:30 pm.Tickets for History on Tap are $30 for adults and $27 for Museum Members. For more information or to purchase tickets, click here.