Blue Point’s Cask Ales Festival returns Saturday | Long Island Business News

Blue Point Brewing Company’s 18^th annual Cask Ales Festival returns Saturday at the brewery in Patchogue from 2 to 6 p.m.

The 18^th annual event will feature 70 craft breweries, with one-of-a-kind beers created for the event.

The festival will feature 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 more than 20 local vendors and food trucks.

This year’s community partner is Long Island Cares/Harry Chapin Food Bank, which will hold a food drive at the festival’s entrance. Blue Point will make a donation to the food bank to support hot meals for food-insecure Long Islanders.

For this year’s festival, Blue Point Caskmaster Jim Richards developed a cask inspired by what is considered to be Chapin’s favorite meal, leftovers – the singer-songwriter’s personal solution to cutting back on food waste. Called Barnyard Goulash, this collaboration cask consists of a variety of “leftover” Imperial Stouts from the Blue Point cellar.

This year features a number of cask highlights. Blue Point Tequila Sunrise Sunshine is a9.6% Imperial Blonde Ale conditioned over tequila oak chips, grenadine and blood orange. Blue Point x Warped Tour Band’s Pop Punkin’ Stout is a pumpkin imperial stout. Ghost Brewing’s Lady in the Orange Fur Coat features peach, apricot and vanilla sour with dried papaya, mango, nectarine and coconut. And Forgotten Boardwalk (NJ) is a funnel cake vanilla cream ale conditioned over apple cider, cinnamon, brown sugar and glazed donuts.

More information about the event is available here.