For a third year in a row, the Pitchfork brand is putting on a fall-themed music and beer festival in New York City. OctFest arrives this time on October 19 at the Knockdown Center, the local erstwhile glass factory a mile north of the Jefferson L.
Tickets are currently $45 bundled with a bottle and a half of samples from a number of breweries, that include vaguely local fare like the Long Island Beer Project, fashionable indies like New Belgium and a variety of Anheuser-Busch InBev-owned properties like Goose Island, Blue Point and the recently launched Bocanegra.
The festival’s origins hail from 2017, as a bid to synergize the music reviewing website that Condé Nast had just bought with the beer-promoting website that Condé Nast had just started at the time with a sizable investment by AB InBev, the Belgian beer conglomerate most recognizable for its ownership of the Budweiser brand.
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