Local Hollow Brewing’s Boo & Brews at the Hollow

Local Hollow Brewing and WNY Beer Trail are hosting the inaugural Boos & Brews at the Hollow on Saturday, Oct. 17 (12-4 pm) at the Clarence Hollow brewery, a fall-themed market with seasonal beers from Local Hollow, including Boos & Brews beer flights, fall cocktails and local vendors such as WNY Beer Trail, Norah’s Resin, Fox Tail Bakery, Tiffiney’s Trinkets, Drew’s Woodworking, IA of WNY, Oh How Cool! Resin Arts, Crazy Wine Bottle Lady, Maria’s Bene Cibo – Food Truck and more. The event is free to attend and open to the public.

Tap & Craft Festival Returns to Buffalo Riverworks Oct. 23

The Tap & Craft Festival returns to Buffalo Riverworks on Friday, Oct. 23, featuring more than 30 craft breweries, cideries, wineries and distilleries. There will also be craft vendors and live music from The Brass Machine. Tickets are on sale now – Tap Tier ($75, early entry, admission to both sessions, three 16oz. cans to go, pretzel necklace, festival sticker), VIP ($60, early entry, exclusive VIP-only pours), General Admission ($50) and Designated Driver ($12, includes bottled water). You can purchase tickets at Tapandcraft.com (no Eventbrite fees). There will be a limited number of tickets available at the door as well on the day of.

CollaBEERation 7 Festival Sets for April 2027

The date has been set for the seventh annual CollaBEERation Festival – April 3, 2027. The event will return to the Powerhouse (140 Lee St, Buffalo). Participating breweries, meaderies and cideries, as well as ticket information, will be announced at a later date. If you don’t know how CollaBEERation works, here’s the premise – the event features craft beer, cider and mead created by members of the Buffalo Beer Geeks community, who team up with over 50 Western New York craft venues to create one-off, small batch creations, many created exclusively for this event. They are involved in every step of the creative process. There will also be food and craft vendors on hand. For more information, click here.

42 North Brewing Celebrates 11th Anniversary

42 North Brewing is planning a full weekend of music and special beer releases from Friday, Oct. 16 to Sunday, Oct. 18 to celebrate its 11th anniversary. The celebration features live music all weekend long from AJ & The Woods, Marty Peters (with Sue Kincaid, Tracey Richter, Kirsten Brady and Jon Hoy and The Brother’s Blue, Buffalo Bills game with gameday food and beer specials, and a trio of new beers – Strawberry Rhubarb Kolsch, Raspberry/Cherry American Sour and Hazy Double IPA featuring a 2026 fresh hop harvest. All events during 42 North’s Anniversary weekend are free and open to the public.

New Pumpkin Beer From Butera’s Village Brew House and First Line

Butera’s Village Brew House and First Line Brewing have teamed up with Urbanowicz Acres Farm and Battle Rattle for this year’s release of Raf’s Great Pumpkin Ale. The beer is brewed with locally grown Western New York pie pumpkins from Urbanowicz Acres soaked in Battle Rattle whiskey, then roasted in Butera’s brick oven. The beer, brewed at First Line, features oats, Munich and Vienna malts, German noble hops and pumpkin seeds. Raf’s Great Pumpkin Ale will be available on draft at both Butera’s and First Line soon.

Buffalo Brewing’s Raffle To Purchase Special Simon Pure 12-Pack

Buffalo Brewing Company is raffling off the chance to purchase a special 12-pack of 16oz. bottles of Simon Pure lager. To enter, visit Buffalo Brewing’s Instagram page, follow Buffalo Brewing Company and Simon Pure Beer, then comment and tag 3 people you’d share your 12-pack with. Entries close Sunday, October 18 at 8 pm and the winner will be announced Monday, October 19. This is a chance to purchase one 12-pack of 16oz. Simon Pure bottles at the regular retail price (beer is not being given away).

BriarBrothers Brewing Drops New Sabres-Themed Beer

BriarBrothers Brewing’s newest haze pays homage to a homegrown Buffalo Sabres talent – Zach Benson. Benson Burner is a juicy and hazy 7% New England IPA brewed with Citra and El Dorado hops. The can art takes inspiration from West Coast Amusements, the traveling carnival owned by the Benson Family. “We’re dropping a brand new beer just in time for hockey season, and this one is built for Buffalo,” the brewery said. “Juicy, hazy, and ready to bring some heat to your next game day.” Benson Burner is available on draft and in cans at BriarBrothers Brewing.

Brian Campbell is co-founder and Brand Manager of the Buffalo Beer League, and writes the weekly Buffalo Beer Buzz column. If you have beer news that should be included in the Beer Buzz, Brian can be reached at brian@buffalobeerleague.com, on X (@buffbeerleague), Instagram, Threads and Untappd (@buffalobeerleague), and Facebook (@thebuffalobeerleague).