Join us to celebrate 10 years of cheers and beers!
What’s your favorite thing about the Thread City Hop Fest? We agree it’s hard to choose! Could be that the event is held outside on spacious Jillson Square, could be the 60+ breweries, wineries, cideries and distilleries touting their finest libations. Maybe your favorite thing about Hop Fest is that it is a fundraising event that supports 15+ local charity organizations. Whatever your preference, we are just glad that you’re up for joining us again for what promises to be a full on celebratory and lively affair. This is our 10th annual Hop Fest so get your tickets today for Sunday, May 18th from 1 - 5 pm in Willimantic! Tickets are limited and subject to selling out so don’t delay! See you on the field!
GA TICKETS are $50+fee/per person in advance, or $65+fee at the gate (if any remain). Attendees will enjoy samples from 60+ breweries, cideries and distilleries from Connecticut & throughout New England.
VIP TICKETS are $75+fee/person and limited to 65 guests only. For the second year in a row Thread City Hop Fest will feature VIP for Veterans tickets. Proceeds from VIP ticket sales will be used to support local veteran’s associations. Please join us in the VIP tent from 12:00 to 1:00 for a social hour replete with VIP only beer samples served up by Willimantic Brewing Company and another guest brewer yet to be determined. Food will be provided by Sault’s Eclectic Cuisine, a veteran owned food truck offering menu items that reflect the style and flavors of the chef"s military world travels. We are also bringing back our favorite story teller and local, historian Bev York. Bev recognizes that the freedoms Americans enjoy have been earned and secured by our U.S. Veterans. She will regale us with quick and lively chronicles about United States heroes. The VIP tent will also host representatives from veteran and military associations that ensure support, recognition and assistance to our veteran communities. We have a great hour of tasty indulgences planned for VIP ticket holders, sure hope to see you there! A reminder: VIP tickets only access the VIP tent. There is no early admittance into the festival. SOLD OUT!
$10 Designated Driver tickets will be available for purchase at the beer fest gate. Cash only
The Thread City Hop Fest is organized by Willimantic Brewing Company on behalf of Willimantic Renaissance, Inc the fiscal non-profit for the festival. Proceeds benefit local charities that include but are not limited to The Windham No Freeze Project, Horizons Inc., Click, Covenant Soup Kitchen, Willimantic Renaissance, Holy Family Shelter, First Baptist Church, Grow Windham, Eastern CT Railroad Museum, Windham Textile Museum, The America Museum, WAIM, CATS Northeast and the CT Brewers Guild.
Please be prepared to show proper ID at the gate as this is an over 21 event. The Hop Fest is rain or shine! We ask that you not bring dogs or children to the event.
Music: Wild Rice Entertainment
ATTENDING 2025 BREWERIES, CIDERIES, DISTILLERIES & MORE
- 12% Beer Project
- Alvarium
- Athletic Brewing
- B-Sharp Brewing
- Back East
- Bad Sons
- Bear Hands
- Berkshire Brewing
- Black Pond Brewing
- Boondoggle
- Boston Beer Company
- Caius Farm Brewery
- Counterweight
- Crafted Hope Brewing
- Crazy Cock
- CT Valley Brewing
- Dead Language Beer Project
- Downeast Cider
- Dragonfire Meadery
- Elicit
- Epicure
- Fifth State Distillery
- Firefly Hollow
- Founders Brewing Co.
- Fox Farm
- Grey Sail
- Kinsmen Brewing Co.
- Legitimus
- Litchfield Distillery
- Little House
- Long Drink
- Mighty Squirrel
- Myrcene Ale Co.
- New Belgium
- New England Brewing Co.
- New England Cider Co.
- New Park Brewing
- Newsylum
- Nod Hill Brewery
- Nutrl Seltzer
- Outer Light Brewing
- Quiver
- Reframe
- Still Hill Brewery
- Stormalong
- Tapped Apple
- Taylor Brooke Brewery
- The New Cambridge Project
- Thomas Hooker Brewing
- Tox
- Transcend Beer Crafters
- Tribus Beer
- Watson’s Farmhouse Brewery
- Westford Hills
- Willimantic Brewing Co.
- Yankee Cider Company
- Zoc's Brewing
ATTENDING 2025 FOOD TRUCKS & VENDORS:
- Cup Cake for Later
- Drunk Alpaca
- Jay's Little Red Food Truck
- Leo's Hot Dog Cart
- Red Lion Burger
- Sault LLC
- Tacos de la Rosa
- The Whey Station
- Twin Beaks Fried Chicken
Breweries & Vendors -- interested in participating? Please email [email protected]
