The fifth annual CollaBEERation Festival, which will take place on April 5, 2025 at the Powerhouse (140 Lee St., Buffalo), has announced its lengthy list of participating breweries, cideries and meaderies.
This year’s theme is ‘Hollywood.’ “Expect to see plenty of collabs created around your favorite TV [shows], movies and Hollywood life. You’ll get to walk the red carpet on April 5 and enjoy over 40 unique beers, ciders and meads!” festival organizers say.
The event features craft beer, cider and mead created by members of the Buffalo Beer Geeks community, who will team up with more than 50 participating Western New York craft venues to create small batch beverages, many of which will be created exclusively for this event. They are involved in every step of the creative process, from recipe creation to brewing, and everything in-between.
Craft brewers include (more to be announced):
- 1927 Brewhouse
- Bee Spit Meadery
- Beer Kind Brewing
- Big Ditch Brewing
- Blackbird Cider
- Blood Brothers Brewing
- Brazen Brewing
- Brewery Ardennes
- BriarBrothers Brewing
- Brickyard Brewing
- Buffalo Olde Brewing
- Butera’s Village Brewhouse
- Community Beer Works
- Eli Fish Brewing
- First Line Brewing
- Frequentem Brewing
- Griffon Brewing
- Hammer & Crown Brewing
- Illumination Meadery
- Johnson’s Landing
- K2 Brothers Brewing
- Lilly Belle Meads
- Mortalis Brewing
- Mystic Hills Brewing
- Noble Shepherd Craft Brewery
- Old First Ward Brewing
- OSB Ciderworks
- Pearl Street Brewery
- Pod City Beer Labs
- Prosper Brewing
- Queen City Meadery
- Rising Storm Brewing
- Sad Boys Brewing
- Shalooby Loofer Brewing
- Smoldered Society Beer
- Solitude Brewing
- Southern Tier Brewing
- Spotted Octopus Brewing
- Stoneyard Brewing
- Strangebird Brewing
- Thin Man Brewing
- Wayland Brewing
After drinking their fill, festival goers vote for their top collaborations, with the winners taking home the Buffalo Beer Geek Championship Belt. Having won the title the last two years, Bloomfield’s Noble Shepherd Craft Brewery will defend their belt in 2025. The brewery took home the crown for their Pistashio Pudding Sour in 2023 and Spanish Announce Table, a pineapple churro sour, in 2024.
There will also be food and artisanal vendors on hand.
A special VIP brewery lineup will be announced by January and all ticket info will be announced in coming weeks.
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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 Twitter (@buffbeerleague), Instagram, Threads and Untappd (@buffalobeerleague), and Facebook (@thebuffalobeerleague).
