History on Tap is returning to Genesee Country Village & Museum on Friday, June 3, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. after a several year hiatus. Visitors can sample local craft beverages, enjoy live music, tour a 19th-century brewery, try craft beers brewed referencing historical recipes, play lawn games on the Village Square, and more. Tickets for History on Tap are available now at https://www.gcv.org/events/history-on-tap/. Pre-purchasing tickets is recommended as this event has limited capacity and could sell out. This event is sponsored by Rohrbach Brewing Co.
Visitors to History on Tap will have the opportunity to sample craft beers, wines, and ciders from more than 20 local craft beverage partners, in addition to the Museum’s two historic beers brewed by Rohrbachs, referencing 19th-century recipes: Stocking Hill Ale and Fat Ox Ale. Tastings set throughout the Village Square will give visitors the opportunity to enjoy the museum grounds after hours. Eventgoers can purchase handcrafted beer mugs made on-site at GCV&M by the village potter, and have them filled with the museum’s historic beers. In addition to the museum’s culinary offerings, visitors can enjoy fare from the Stingray Sushi Fusion Food Truck as well as Terry’s Tips Beef and BBQ. Picnic tables spread throughout the Village Square will be available for dining.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to tour Grieve’s Brewery, a reconstruction of a c. 1803 Geneva, NY brewery. GCV&M is the only museum in the United States to showcase a working 19th-century brewery. The 1803-themed brewing demonstrations rely on gravity during much of the process, with liquids either pumped by hand or ladled into troughs throughout the building. Portions of Rochester’s old Enright Brewery (closed in 1907) and an early timber-framed structure near West Bloomfield, NY, were merged to form the present building. Beside the brewery, visitors will find a Hop House (built c. 1870 in Greece, NY), surrounded by a small hop yard. Hops grown at the museum are harvested in the late summer during the annual Hop Harvest Festival, a celebration of craft beer and the history of brewing in the region.
This is a 21+ event, and a valid form of ID must be presented at the door. Tickets for History on Tap are $30 for adults, $10 for designated drivers, and $27 for museum members. Visitors are encouraged to buy tickets online and save – there will be a small additional fee for tickets purchased at the door.
Tickets and more information about upcoming events can be found online at https://www.gcv.org/events/.
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