Hoppy Valley Brewers Fest Kicks off in May at Beaver Stadium

By Jim Carlson (Town & Gown Magazine) March 21, 2024 - Guests at Beaver Stadium on May 11 can be the toast of the town when they experience the first Hoppy Valley Brewers Fest, an event designed for people to taste and then tout craft beers from around Pennsylvania and beyond.

The stadium’s 107,000 seats in the fall are filled with football fans cheering; patrons at this event will be on the field and able to tip their hats—and their cups—to seventy-five brewers and say … cheers!

It will be a four- to five-hour party on the plush, green grass inside the iconic stadium known nationwide for White Outs. With brewers offering beers from sweet to bitter and from full-bodied to light and pleasant, patrons will have a vast, cold-and-gold selection in front of them.

“I think everybody that’s involved is pretty excited about it,” says event organizer John Schaffer, manager of Antifragile Brewing Company on Calder Alley in State College. “The breweries will be set up along the exterior of the field and we’ll have seventy-five of them. They’re all very excited to be here in such an iconic venue.