42 North Brewing’s Full Circle Festival, which showcases New York State produced beverages and highlights the sustainability of the region’s craft beverage industry, returns to Knox Farm State Park on Saturday, May 20. The event runs from 2 to 6 pm.

42 North will be joined by over 20 regional craft producers with each sampling a beverage that features New York State ingredients.

In addition to sampling from all the breweries, tickets to the Full Circle Festival will include live music from Buffalo bluegrass band, The Brothers Blue, agriculture vendors including Cornell Cooperative, Extension/Taste NY, Farmer Pirates Compost, Westside Tilth Farm, Chestnut Hill Farm, ACES (Aurorans For Climate & Environmental Sense), NY Hop Guild and EA Co-Op, a souvenir tasting glass, and, of course, a pig roast dinner with pulled pork by farmer Gabi and sides by Fat Bob’s Smokehouse.

Tentative beer list includes:

Eli Fish Brewing

  • Guapi Lush – 4.5% Sour with Cucumber, Lime, Elderflower, and Salt
  • Tiga Queen 3: Xōchiquetzal – Sour with Apricot, Prickly Pear, Lime, Habanero, Ghost Pepper

Ellicottville Brewing Company

  • Somethin’ Hazy IPA
  • Showtime IPA
  • Weedwacker Agave Lime IPA
  • Platter’s Raspberry Truffle Blonde Ale

Froth Brewing

  • Frothsty (Peanut butter, Vanilla ice cream, Raspberry)
  • All NYS Hazy IPA – NYS Cascade hops

Windy Brew

  • Hillbilly Pilsner
  • Habanero Lime Cream Ale

Resurgence Brewing

  • Green Heart IPA – Hazy NEIPA with notes of pineapple, melon and light peach. This beer is hopped with Citra, Amarillo, Simcoe and Palisade
  • Unbelievable Sour Ale – Fruited sour with Sweet Cherry, Black Currant, and Mango

BlackBird Cider Works

  • Lakeside Loganberry Seasonal – semi-dry hard cider with Loganberry notes
  • Premium Draft – semi-sweet draft cider with subtle carbonation, apple and honey notes

1927 Brewhouse @ Santora’s

  • Tropicana IPA- Hazy IPA brewed with malts from NY Craft Malt from Batavia
  • Grant Pils – American light lager

New York Beer Project

  • NYS Hazy IPA – 6.9 % ABV IPA featuring NYS Mackinac and Cascade hops along with organic Pilsner malt from Niagara Malting
  • Bomb Pop Sour – 5% kettle sour brewed with fresh lemon zest & juice and fermented with a blend of Belgian yeast strains, aged on raspberries, blueberries, and lime, as well as local tart cherries from Bitner Singer Farms

Britesmith Brewing

  • Mexican Lager – light lager with flaked corn and lime
  • Time to Fly – New Zealand IPA with Rakau and Motueka hops

Community Beer Works

  • Let’s Go Pils – Lager brewed in the German tradition with an American twist; a light dry hop addition of Hallertau Blanc hops produce a delicate aroma of melon and grape
  • DDH Frank – uses NYS Cascade Hops. Pale Ale recipe dry-hopped with Citra, Centennial, and Cashmere hops

42 North Brewing

  • Cherry Vanilla Pop Gose – NYS Pilsner Malt and wheat malt from NY Craft Malt, NYS tart cherries and lactose sugar
  • Solshine – Bright, crisp lager with a hint of citrus. Brewed with sweet orange peel and a secondary fermentation on real tangerine

Dublin Corners

  • Keith’s Demise – Mango NEIPA
  • Caledonia Cream Ale – Cream Ale
  • Tree Tapper – Maple Porter made with Sage Family Maple Syrup produced in Wyoming County

Bee Spit Meadery

  • Razzle Me This – NYS honey from south of Auburn
  • Brich Slapped – NYS honey south of Auburn

Brazen Brewing

  • Beaches Be Crazy – Oak aged Jamaican Rum Porter
  • Try As We Might – NYS ingredient Pilot Batch Session IPA brewed with a NY sourced trial blend of hops from NY Hop Guild and malts from Niagara Malt

West Shore Brewing

  • Midnight Oil Dark Lager – German Dunkel style lager
  • Hammerhead IPA – Brewed with Centennial, Mosaic, Simcoe and Mandarina Bavaria

Old First Ward Brewing

  • Chill Kellerbier
  • Westward West Coast IPA – Brewed with Riwaka, Simcoe, and Columbus hops

Tickets for the Full Circle Festival are now on sale at 42 North or via EventBrite at bit.ly/FullCircleFest2023. Tickets are $50 in advance and $55 at the door and Designated Driver and children under 21 tickets are $25. This is a rain or shine event, tickets are non-refundable.

More information on the event can be found at 42northbrewing.com.

The beer list is subject to change. Check back often for updates.