Farming Man Fest returning to Altamont for 10th year

Farming Man Fest is returning to Indian Ladder Farms for its 10th year. Unlike the previous years, the festival will now be a weekend-long event on Saturday, July 20 from noon to 10 p.m., and Sunday, July 21 from noon to 6 p.m.

ALTAMONT, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Farming Man Fest is returning to Indian Ladder Farms for its 10th year. Unlike previous years, the festival will now be a weekend-long event on Saturday, July 20 from noon to 10 p.m., and Sunday, July 21 from noon to 6 p.m.

The festival includes more than 25 breweries, two distilleries, five bands, and over a dozen other vendors. To celebrate the 10th anniversary, Farming Man Fest will feature exclusive brews, collaborations, and limited-edition releases.

"We are so excited for our annual commemorative beer, Farming Man: The Beer 2024,” said Scott Veltman, Head Brewer at Indian Ladder Farms. "In all honesty, the taste is just wow. Such a delicious beer. It’s a hoppy, wheated pilsner made with NYS malt and hopped with NYS Vista, and another hop variety referred to as HRC-003. It’s a refreshing yet hoppy lager with notes of peach, mango, melon and green tea. It’s the perfect easy-drinking beer to taste while socializing in summer–and therefore perfect for Farming Man Fest."

New this year, the festival will be held in Indian Ladder Farms' Pizza Garden and event space, The Clear Mountain Room. Food will be available from DeFazio’s Pizza in the Pizza Garden, who will also have a food truck there.

Admission will also be free this year with tasting passes available for $25, Farming Moon Hike passes for $25, and overnight camping passes for Saturday for $30. The tasting pass gives attendees eight 4oz samples from different breweries on site. You can buy passes on the Indian Ladder Farms website.

Breweries, distilleries and vendors so far

• Artisanal Beer Works
• Bolton Landing Brewing
• Bound By Fate Brewery
• Ommegang
• Brooklyn Cider House
• Brown's Brewing
• Chatham Brewing
• Common Roots
• Community Beer Works
• Druthers Brewing
• Fidens
• Gentle Giant Brewing Co.
• Great Flats Brewing
• Paradox Brewery
• Real McCoy
• Rip Van Winkle Brewery
• Seven Points Brewery
• SingleCut Beersmiths
• The Brewery at the CIA
• The Warbler
• Unified Beerworks,
• Upper Depot
• Wayward Lane,
• Whitman Brewing
• Wolf Hollow Brewing
• Albany Distilling Company
• Cooperstown Distillery
• Beverwyck Cheesecake
• Sweet Treat Cotton Candy
• The Ornate Fox
• Meadowdale Winery

Live music

• TV Doctors
• Sydney Worthley
• The Sugar Hold
• Super 400
• Wild Adriatic

The Tasting Room and Farm Store will be open normal hours during Farming Man Fest. Indian Ladder Farms is located at 342 Altamont Road in Altamont.