Our second annual Maple Fest weekend will be held on March 15 & 16, 2025! (Rain or shine)

There will be vendors, live music, specialty beverages, educational programming, entertainment, and of course all things maple! Come out to celebrate the beginning of the season with us and experience the magic of maple, in all of its form, all of March!

Don’t forget to support and visit all the wonderful local maple farms during Maple Weekend, hosted by the New York State Maple Producers Association!

Mountain Winds Farm (MWF) is nestled in the western hills of Berne, New York in the Helderberg Hilltowns. The Grippin Family has owned this maple farm since 1961.

MWF sells a variety of maple products such as maple syrup, maple drops, maple sugar candy, maple popcorn and much more— some of their maple goodies are available in our Farm Store all year round! We are honored to be working with MWF to create our cider and beer for Maple Fest! Check out their table during our Maple Fest weekend.

SPECIALTY BEVERAGES

CIDER

Makeshift Sugar Shack

7.8% ABV – Our Porter’s Perfection cider infused with Mountain Winds Farm Grade A Very Dark Maple syrup.

COCKTAIL

Tap Season Tonic

Ginger beer, maple syrup, citrus, and ILFCB Dry Hard cider, served in a maple bottle

BEER

Tappin’ Some Trees Maple Stout

10.8% ABV Imperial Stout made with maple syrup from Mountain Winds Farm in Berne, NY. This deep, rich, viscous stout has big notes of coffee, chocolate and maple, with a nice sharp bitterness. A must try!

BIERSTACHELN (beer spiking/beer poking)

A centuries-old German tradition where a metal wand is heated up and submerged into beer (or hard cider). The effect of the heat caramelizes the sugar in the beer and adds to the flavor, as well as creating a rich creamy foam head. We will have a beer and hard cider tent/table set up for you to watch this process happen and enjoy the final product!

LIVE MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT

Carmen Lookshire

Saturday March 15, 12PM- 3PM

Mike McMann & Bob Buckley

Sunday March 16, 12PM- 3PM

VENDORS

More details to come!