Rochester Real Beer Expo 2022: Draft list revealed

One of Rochester's best beer events returns after a two-year hiatus.

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Regular readers from my D&C days know it was a yearly tradition to publish the beer list for the Rochester Real Beer Expo, one of the area’s pre-eminent beer gatherings.

The festival was paused in the last few years due to the pandemic. The rebooted event kicks off at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 11 and runs till 10 p.m. (VIP ticket-holders gain entry at 5 p.m.)

The festival will take place outside on Gregory Street. You didn’t come here for this intro, you came here for the tap list. And here it is (with the notice that it’s obviously subject to change):

Strangebird: Bird Light American light lager; Wyvern DIPA.

Rising Storm: Tangerine Blood Orange Prickly Pear It Was Written Sour IPA; Chocolate CaREAM Pie cream ale; Touch of Grey IPA.

Fifth Frame: Classic Light lager; Blizzy Watermelon heavily fruited sour.

Frequentem: Natural Flavors Tangerine sour; Just Fruit heavily fruited sour; Basmati Rice Lager.

Mortalis: Barrel-Aged Pear Brandy Leto; Barrel-Aged Whams Above Whams Below; Jurassic Oldmanbearma DIPA; Laertes Pilsner; Siren "Kick Out the Jams" Edition Fruit Smoothie Sour.

Other Half: Broccoli’s Axe DIPA; Deep Orbit Cosmos Red Shift stout; Enfants Du Mais farmhouse ale.

Iron Tug: Shore Leave Cherry Cobbler sour; Triple IPA.

Swiftwater: Peach Mango Lemonade Fruit Float heavily fruited sour; BIG maple barrel-aged imperial stout; Swifty Shifty lemon American light lager; Hefeweizen with coconut cask; Dull Whip imperial sour; Michelada Pils; Strawberry Rhubarb sour IPA.

Three Heads: Barrel-aged Barleywine; Creamsicle sour; Peach Pie sour.

Noble Shepherd: Mise en Place: Blackberry Peach sour; Merlot Sour; TBD IPA.

Sager: Paulo's Bellini sour; Hannah's Raising Helles; University Ave Pale Ale; CUE IPA.

Irondequoit: Liberator doppelbock; Cherry Fantome Belgian strong dark ale.

Faircraft: Gose; Pre-Prohibition Pils; Norwegian Farmhouse.

Brindle Haus: TBA.

Copper Leaf: Koyt Saison; Second Pump Raspberry sour; Flanders Red.

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Tripping Animals: TBA.

Foam: TBA.

Aslin: TBA.

The Veil: Yella Lambz sour; Crucial Taunt IPA; Master Shredder IPA; Choose Me DIPA: Cat Nap³ IPA; Mystery DIPA.

Hill Farmstead: Marie; Edward.

Equilibrium: HDHC Dreamwave Fluctuation DIPA; Mmm...Osa pale ale; Photon pale ale.

Hudson Valley: Incandenza sour IPA; Pina Colada Silhouette sour IPA; Orange Lime Confetti sour IPA; Ambio sour DIPA.

Singlecut: The Alternative Farmhouse; Alternative; Whammy IPA.

Steuben: Local Liquid Pedersen Pils; The Golden One pale lager.

Thin Man: TBA.

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Sloop: Sauer Peach sour; Fresh Pressed Juice Bomb IPA; West Coast Juice Bomb IPA.

Burlington Elaborate Metaphor IPA; You Can't Get There From Here fruited gose.

Lawson’s: Salt and Lime Scrag Mountain Pils; plus more.

Night Shift: Night Lite American light lager; Santilli IPA; Fluffy IPA.

Firestone Walker: Hopnosis IPA; Primal Elements American wild ale; Gold Rider barrel-aged strong ale.

Allagash: Windfall peach wild ale; Seconds To Summer American lager; My One and Only fruited sour.

Meiers Creek: Mooncube; Moonshooter DIPA

KCBC: TBA.

Brewery Ardennes: Speciale Belge Belgian pale ale; Cranberry Sour, 1/6 keg Quadrupel

Oskar Blues/Cigar City: Barrel-aged Death By Coconut; TBA.

Ommegang: Everything Nice Belgian strong golden ale; Rye Barrel Vanilla Stout; Neon Boodles hazy IPA.

New Belgium: UK Spring Break wild ale; Adding Corner - Three Chambers wild ale; Tripel.

Big Ditch: Pineapple Hayburner IPA; It Is What It Isn't; Dock Jams fruited sour; Helles lager.

Founders: Four Giants and the Haze of Destiny DIPA; Más Agave Clásica Prickly Pear fruited gose.

Pressure Drop: Loganberry Sour; Blackalicious Belgian imperial stout.

Upstate: Summertime Blues fruited blonde ale; Lake Road hazy pale ale.

Prison City: BA Whams 1/6 / Crispy Boys 1/6 / Laser Brian 1/6 / DDH Mass Riot 1/6

Torch & Crown: Intersect session IPA; Tenement Pils.

Catskill: Ball Lightning Pils; Haines Falls Sour Ale with Cherry.

Grimm: Jaws Czech Pils; Starina Pale Ale; Wavetable IPA; Grimm Weiss.

Zero Gravity: TBA.

Threes: Imagined Reality IPA; Echo of Nothing Mexican lager.

OSB: Motley Blue cider; TBA.

Hudson North: Strawberry Rhubarb cider; Salted Watermelon cider.

Embark: Strawberry Rhubarb cider; Blueberry Peach cider.

Rare Form: Members Only Brown ale; Confetti Mexican lager; Ripple Effect IPA.

Captain Lawrence: TBA.

Bissell Brothers: Swish DIPA; Baby Genius session IPA; Substance IPA.

Beer Tree: TBA.

Jack’s Abby/Springdale: Grapefruit Radler; Chai Barrel-Aged Framinghammer Baltic porter; Not Stirred Series: Tequila Me Softly sour.

Stone: Stone IPA; Enjoy By 7/4 DIPA.

Common Roots: Good Fortune IPA; Tasteful Deception: Raspberry sour; Coffee Cup imperial stout.

Fifth Hammer: Electric Lemonberry Sour; Southbound Coconut Cream Ale.

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