Here are 36 more breweries signed up to pour at the 2023 Rochester Real Beer Expo

This year's edition of Rochester's biggest showcase of rare beer will take place on Saturday, June 10, at Innovative Field.

I am over-the-moon excited to unveil this participant list for 2023 Rochester Real Beer Expo.

I’ve already gotten 67 firm commitments from some of my favorite breweries from across the country (and into Canada). The brewery list itself is pretty close to being finalized. (I am waiting on the final five invites right now.) There will be more than 70 at this year’s Expo, which is scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 10, at Innovative Field, home of the Rochester Red Wings baseball club.

ICYMI here’s the first round of participants from last week:

Here are the first 31 breweries (officially) signed up for the 2023 Rochester Real Beer Expo

Tickets are already on sale. VIP tickets, which gain you an hour of early access and a few other perks, are going super, super quickly. The event will most assuredly sell out as it has for each of the last 10 editions. Tickets are available at www.rochesterrealbeer.com.

For my first time ever curating a beer festival, I am super proud of this list. I worked my ass off to reach out to some of my favorite breweries and succeeded with a number of my Hail Mary attempts. (You don’t know, if you don’t ask!) At least 15 of the breweries have never even poured in Rochester. And a number of those breweries have never been featured anywhere in New York state. I hope you’re as excited as I am. And I hope to see many of your faces in three months at Innovative Field.

Here are the next 36 participants in the Expo:

1. Okay Beer Co., Honeoye Falls, N.Y.

2. Nine Spot Brewing, Rochester, N.Y.

3. Aurora Brewing, King Ferry, N.Y.

4. Swiftwater Brewing, Rochester, N.Y.

5. Grow Brewing, Geneva, N.Y.

6. Sager Beer Works, Rochester, N.Y.

7. Silver Lake Brewing Project, Perry, N.Y.

8. Prison City Brewing, Auburn, N.Y.

9. Fifth Frame Brewing, Rochester, N.Y.

10. Knucklehead Craft Brewing, Webster, N.Y.

11. Beer Tree Brew, Port Crane, N.Y.

12. Old Thunder Brewing, Pittsburgh, Pa.

13. Godspeed Brewery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

14. Young Lion Brewing, Canandaigua, N.Y.

15. Resurgence Brewing, Buffalo, N.Y.

16. BriarBrothers Brewing, Buffalo, N.Y.

17. Rising Storm Brewing, Livonia, N.Y.

18. Laurentide Brewing, Penn Yan, N.Y.

19. Great Notion Brewing, Portland, Or.

20. Thin Man Brewery, Buffalo, N.Y.

21. Rare Form Brewing, Troy, N.Y.

22. Wild East Brewing, Brooklyn, N.Y.

23. Iron Tug Brewing, Rochester, N.Y.

24. Copper Leaf Brewing, Pittsford, N.Y.

25. Embark Craft Ciderworks, Williamson, N.Y.

26. Grimm Artisanal Ales, Brooklyn, N.Y.

27. Steuben Brewing, Pulteney, N.Y.

28. Human Robot Beer, Philadelphia, Pa.

29. Lagunitas Brewing, Petaluma, Ca.

30. Cinderlands Brewing, Pittsburgh, Pa.

31. Allagash Brewing, Portland, Me.

32. Rohrbach Brewing, Rochester, N.Y.

33. Dewey Beer Co., Dewey Beach, De.

34. Eredità Beer, North Haven, Ct.

35. Pressure Drop Brewing, Buffalo, N.Y.

36. Counterpart Brewing, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

Expect some profiles on some of these participants in the coming months. I am extremely excited to welcome these breweries to Rochester.

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