Saturday May 6th celebrate spring at Indian Ladder Farms in Altamont, NY! It’s a combination of two great events, the 21st annual Baby Animal Days, and the 1 year anniversary of the farm’s cidery and brewery! Spend the day on the historic 300 acre farm, surrounded by apple orchards and hop yards, and enjoy Indian Ladder’s offerings of farm grown estate ciders and beers, as well as their full NY state food menu. And while you are there, take advantage of Indian Ladder’s special first time can release and pick up a few 4 packs of the super hoppy Dr. Paul Matthews IPA before it runs out. Located just 20 minutes from downtown Albany!
Kim will be on site broadcasting live from the baby animal barn from noon-2pm, bring the family to see, pet & learn about chicks, turkey poults, ducklings, goslings, bunnies, goat kids, lambs, piglets and calves! Baby Animal Days goes from May 5th – 21st, from 9am-6pm daily. Admission is $6 per child (adults accompanying them are free)
To celebrate the first year of Indian Ladder Farm’s Cidery and Brewery, both floors of the tasting room will be open as well as the biergarten where there will be live music from The College Farm and the Chris Dukes Band! Crosby Farms will be there too, roasting a pasture raised pig! In the tasting room you can enjoy beer and cider made on the farm with their own hops, barley and apples! Along with beer, hard cider, wine and spirits from other NY breweries and cideries.
The 7th Annual “A Taste of Troy” fundraiser is April 25, 2017 from 6-8:30pm at the Franklin Terrace Ballroom, to benefit Hope 7 Community Center’s Youth Programs and Food Pantry. Please join them and treat your taste buds to delectable offerings from Troy area restaurants, specialty eateries, and caterers while aiding the community center’s work. Come enjoy music by Preferred Entertainment, THS Jazz Ensemble, and Tom Shields- pianist, raffles, wine pull, and auctions with great items and adventures waiting for you-even four 1 day Hopper Passes for Disney World for that special getaway!
Tickets available at Hope 7, Carol’s Place and the Eatery, De Meo’s Discount Wine & Liquor Store, T & J Soaps in downtown Troy, and Eventbrite online.
Restaurants attending: Birch Hill Catering, Brown’s Brewing Co., Cakes & Catering by Sarah, DeFazio’s Pizzeria, Deli & Brew, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que , The Eatery at Carol’s Place, Franklin Terrace Ballroom, The Greek House, Hilton Garden Inn, Inferno Pizzeria, Muddaddy Flats Quesadillary, O’Brien’s Public House, Red Front Restaurant ,The Ruck, Slidin’ Dirty, Spill’n the Beans Coffeehouse & Bistro, SAMWICH
Saturday April 8th at Lake George Brewing Company it’s their Wild Whiskers Beard Contest from 6-8pm! 6 categories of beard competition, live music raffles, on-site barber and tattoos, food truck. More info HERE.
On Saturday, April 22nd, the beer nerds from the Brew Crew are throwing quite the beer festival… Serving as the culmination of the 1st annual Albany Craft Beer Week, you’ll be able to find over 150 different rare and exclusive brews from 50 different brewers at the Armory Washington Avenue Armory! Tons of great local food will be available too. One ticket price gets you 3 hours of tasting the best beers you’ve ever had. Click the ticket link for the brewer/beer list!
Friday March 31st – Saturday April 1st at the Stony Creek Ranch Resort it’s the Unicorn Rodeo! A benefit for Southern Adirondack Musician Fund, which helps musicians in times of need. Two days of music, with both overnight packages, and show only passes available. Call 518-696-2444 for reservations and more info!
Wednesday nights at Lucky Strike Social, it’s Guitars & Gutters! In the middle of all the bowling lanes at Lucky Strike is a stage, and each week our house band Kimono Dragons will be there providing sweet sweet surf rock while you roll! Free to come hang, $4.95 per game. Giveaways and drink specials each week!
The Gathering of the Farm Cideries is back… and it may sell out, grab tickets before they’re gone!
Saturday February 18th, join Nine Pin on their production floor with farm cideries from all corners of the state for a tasting and market experience that only New York State can offer. Enjoy free samples of unique batches of ciders all made from New York apples with the ability to purchase limited and exclusive ciders by the growler or bottles to go!
Keller will be on site, broadcasting live from noon-2pm!
The list of farm cideries for the Gathering will inlcude:
Nine Pin Cider (Albany, NY), WAYSIDE cider (Andes, NY), Blue Toad Hard Cider – New York (Rochester, NY), Fishkill Farms (Hopewell Junction, NY), Saratoga Apple Hard Cider (Schuylerville, NY), Embark Craft Ciderworks(Williamson, NY), Kaneb Orchards (Massena, NY), Blackduck Cidery (Ovid, NY), Black Creek Cidery (Byron, NY), Little Apple Cidery Inc. (Hillsdale, NY), Brooklyn Cider House(Brooklyn, NY), Bad Seed Cider Company (Highland, NY), Rogers’ Cideryard LLC (Johnstown, NY), Sundog Cider (Chatham, NY)
This will be a ticketed event with two sessions (12-3pm and 4-7pm). Tickets include 3 hours of sampling of a huge diversity of NYS cideries and a branded Gathering of the Farm Cideries tasting glass. Tickets in advance are $20 and at the door are $30. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the New York Cider Association.
Albany Shindig! Set American; caller Paul Rosenberg ~ DFO Sponsored
A fun new series featuring “Roots” dancing. Short concerts followed by simple community circle, square, longways dances (roots of contra dance) with live fiddle music.
Albany Shindig! The Walker Family Band; callers Paul Rosenberg & Jeff Walker ~ DFO Sponsored
A fun new series featuring “Roots” dancing. Short concerts followed by simple community circle, square, longways dances (roots of contra dance) with live fiddle music.
