Blue Point Brewery To Hold Cask Festival In Patchogue On Saturday

PATCHOGUE, NY — Over 70 craft breweries from across the United States have created special blends for the 18th Annual Cask Ales Festival at the Blue Point Brewery in Patchogue on Saturday.

The event will run from 2 to 6 p.m.

It will include live performances by Ernie & The Band, The Warped Tour Band, and DJ Kaution, a skate demo by Wampum Skate Shop, live glass blowing from Long Island Glass, and over 20 local vendors and food trucks.

Tickets range from about $38 to about $134,

The brewery has partnered with Long Island Cares/Harry Chapin Food Bank with plans to collect food at the entrance. The brewery will also be making a food bank donation, which will be going toward providing hot meals for food-insecure Long Islanders this holiday season, as well as beyond.

Blue Point's Caskmaster Jim Richards has created a cask inspired by Chapin's love of leftovers, which was his solution to cutting back on food waste.

It's called Barnyard Goulash and is a collaboration cask consisting of a variety of "leftover" imperial stouts from Blue Point's cellar.

Other cask highlights include:

• Blue Point: Tequila Sunrise Sunshine - 9.6 percent Imperial blonde ale conditioned over tequila oak chips, grenadine, and blood orange
• Blue Point x Warped Tour Band: Pop Punkin' Stout - Pumpkin Imperial Stout
• Ghost Brewing: Lady in the Orange Fur Coat - peach, apricot, and vanilla sour with dried papaya, mango, nectarine, and coconut
• Forgotten Boardwalk (NJ): a funnel cake vanilla cream ale conditioned over apple cider, cinnamon, brown sugar, and glazed donuts.