Do you like a good hop? Join in the hop harvesting celebration on Labor Day, Sept. 3, during Genesee Country Village & Museum’s Hop Harvest Festival featuring live music, craft brew tasting and tours of a working 19th-century brewery.
Visitors can hop into a sack for an old-fashioned sack race, make hop-scented sweet bags ($) and discover how hops were used, not only in brewing beer, but in dyeing, as medicine and in making beer bread.
Live music in the 19th-cetury Village Square includes Flint Hill Folk (11 am-1:30 pm), Mount Pleasant String Band (2-4 pm) and the Niagara Regional Police Pipe Band as they stroll around the village (11 am-3 pm). A variety of local craft beers will be available for tasting, along with the museum’s own Fat Ox and Intrepid Ale, and guests will enjoy hop-inspired foods made in historic kitchens as well as other hop-inspired snacks.
This year the museum is offering FREE shuttle bus rides with two-pick-up and two drop-off times. The bus departs from Radio Social, 20 Carlson Rd, Rochester, at 10:15 am & 12:15 pm and leaves the museum at 3 & 4:30 pm. Reservations, available on line, are required.
All Labor Day weekend, September 1-3, the museum will offer free admission to residents in five neighborhoods surrounding the museum: Mumford, Caledonia, Scottsville, Avon and LeRoy. This offering is to acknowledge museum neighbors and to thank them for their support and the Hop Harvest Festival is included in this Neighbor’s Free weekend.
To receive free admission, neighbors need only present a driver's license or a utility bill with the applicable zip code. The zip codes included are: 14414, 14423, 14482, 14511 and 14546.
General admission is $22 adults, $19 seniors and college students, $14 youth 4-17 and free to children 3 and younger.
