Finger Lakes Craft Beer Festival next week

Hey, I got a post from my friends at Finger Lakes Distilling (distilling's a hot job, you need a beer at times!) about the Finger Lakes Craft Beer Festival next week. It's on June 16, a Thursday, starting at 6 PM -- and if that's not a perfect excuse for a long weekend in the beautiful Finger Lakes, be damned if I know what is. It's an environmental benefit: "The festival is a benefit to increase awareness and facilitate monies to be donated to “Gas Free Seneca,” a local non-profit group dedicated to stopping LPG gas storage in the Watkins Glen area."

Here's a partial list of the breweries involved:

• Rooster Fish Brewing
• Keuka Brewing Company
• Cortland Beer Company
• Two Goats
• Bandwagon
• Ithaca Beer
• Finger Lakes Brewing
• Naked Dove
• Middle Ages
• Rogers Brewing
• Wagner Valley
• Seneca Lodge Craft Brewing

I mean, there's at least six breweries on there I've never been to! If you've got the time, you oughta go; it's a beautiful spot, and bound to be some excellent beers.