The 2025 New York Fall Beer Guide
Crisp air, colorful leaves, and fresh pours – fall is here! 🍂🍺 Discover the best seasonal brews across the state in our New York State Fall Beer Guide. P.S. Don’t forget to download The Official New York Craft Beer App for an interactive map of every brewery in the state, plus earn rewards as you sip and adventure!
#Octothotpe Oktoberfest • 5.3% ABV
Reinvention Brewing – Manchester, NY
Description: A classic traditional German Märzen Lager, this Oktoberfest beer is amber in color, smooth and clean on the palate with a medium body and depth of malt flavor.
Chatham Oktoberfest • 5.5% ABV
Chatham Brewing – Chatham, NY
Description: Brewed in the German tradition using the finest hops and malts available, we say goodbye to summer and welcome fall with this lively lager. This especially drinkable beer is brewed to celebrate the harvest.
Pumpkin Escobar • 7% ABV
Prison City Brewing – Auburn, NY
Description: “Beer? You want some beer? Yeah Boiii!” Porter blended with cinnamon and simple roast coffee mocha java coffee beans.
Vanilla Chai Tea Milk Stout • 5.5% ABV
Rusty Nickel Brewing – West Seneca, NY
Description: Cozy up with Rusty Nickel’s Vanilla Chai Tea Milk Stout, a medium bodied stout, layered with sweet and spicey notes of vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and black tea. Warm chai spice comes to life in this flavorful, yet easy-drinking stout – perfect for sipping by the firepit or tailgating on game day! *Note: This beer was a silver medal winner at the NYS Craft Beer Competition.
Apple Cider Donut Silhouette • 5% ABV
Hudson Valley Brewery – Beacon, NY
Description: Apple Cider Donut Silhouette is a Sour IPA brewed with New York state apples, cinnamon, and vanilla and hopped with Motueka and El Dorado. Designed to showcase the classic autumn flavors of the Hudson Valley, this Sour IPA captures days on the apple orchard and cozy fall feelings with every sip.
Fall Tree Oktoberfest • 6% ABV
Wolf Hollow Brewing Company – Glenville, NY
Description: Fall Tree Oktoberfest is WHBC’s version of the classic German marzen style. It uses large amounts of Munich and Caramel malt for a deep, rich malt profile that highlights an intense caramel sweetness. A slight presence of alcohol accompanies the malt to generate a slight warming sensation with every sip and the yeast used allows for a clean finish amidst all the sweetness of the malt.
Oh My, Apple Pie! • 5.5% ABV
Heritage Hill Brewhouse – Pompey, NY
Description: This 2025 NY Gold Medal Winning Apple Pie inspired sour beer will remind you of Mom’s homemade apple pie in a glass. Conditioned with NYS Apples, Vietnamese Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Ginger, and Vanilla. A perfect treat for the fall weather! Best served with cinnamon sugar rimmed glass.
Leaf Peeper Supreme • 6.5% ABV
Description: Based on traditional fall time lagers from Bavaria, Leaf Peeper Supreme is anything but traditional. We designed this double decocted lager to have all of the complex, rich, malty tones of peak fall foliage in the Adirondack Mountains but with the hoppy goodness we are known for. Grab an easy drinking Leaf Peeper Supreme, feel the fall breeze, peep the fall colors and celebrate this magical time of year with us. Prost!
Hourglass • 5.8% ABV
Peacemaker Brewing Company – Canandaigua, NY
Description: Our Hourglass Oktoberfest is, smooth and made for celebration. Soft notes of fresh bread & a gentle malt sweetness give you a clean, crisp, balanced and medium bodied flavor.
Hamburg Oktoberfest • 5.7% ABV
Hamburg Brewing Company – Hamburg, NY
Description: Nothing pairs better with crisp fall days than our German Style Märzen Lager, rooted in Bavarian tradition and bursting with bold Vienna style malt flavors. Perle hops deliver a clean, balanced bitterness for a full-flavored Oktoberfest experience.
Terrytown Dubbel • 8% ABV
Duncan’s Abbey – Terrytown, NY
Description: A Belgian-inspired Dubbel Ale made with 100% New York ingredients. Play with your senses by tasting cherries, chocolate, or coffee before you realise there’s none of that actually in the beer! Pairs well with a visit to Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow this Autumn!
Cider Donut Ale • 5.2% ABV
Allied Brewing Company – Altamont, NY
Description: The perfect treat for fall with caramel and biscuit malts, cinnamon, vanilla and sweet orange peel. Try it with a cinnamon sugar rim!
Cinnamon Apple • 6.5% ABV
Big Ditch Brewing Company – Buffalo, NY
Description: Apples are the state fruit of New York. We wanted to brew a beer that incorporated our state fruit to properly celebrate autumn in New York State. We use locally pressed cider from New York state apples and locally grown 2-row barley to create our fall seasonal. This beer also incorporates cinnamon, allspice, oatmeal and brown sugar. Savor this beer and enjoy autumn in Western New York.
Märzenvogel Lager • 6.4% ABV
Birdhouse Brewing Company – Honeoye, NY
Description: Amber glow, bready malt, and a touch of caramel sweetness, all smoothed out by a crisp snap at the finish. A classic lager, reimagined with the Birdhouse touch.
Bright Eye Oktoberfest • 5.2% ABV
Bright Eye Beer Co. – Long Beach, NY
Description: Brewed in the height of summer to be ready for a crisp fall release! Malty with a mild toastiness, brilliantly balanced with a slight hop bitterness, and expertly finished with a natural carbonation.
Farm Stand Pumpkin Ale • 5.8% ABV
Irondequoit Beer Company – Rochester, NY
Description: A hearty amber ale conditioned on pumpkin, cinnamon, vanilla beans.
Autumn’s Eve • 5.8% ABV
Beer Justice Brewing Co. – Arcade, NY
Description: Indulge in the essence of autumn with our Pumpkin Amber Ale, a seasonal masterpiece crafted to capture the spirit of the harvest season.
Montauk Pumpkin Ale • 5.7% ABV
Montauk Brewing Company – Montauk, NY
Description: Montauk Pumpkin Ale is a true sign of the season! With subtle spice and sweet smooth finish, this brew is the perfect fall beverage for every occasion.
Moriches Field Oktoberfest • 6% ABV
Moriches Field Brewing Company – Moriches, NY
Description: This special Märzen style Oktoberfest is 100% New York grain and hops. You can taste the difference. The rich malt notes give way to a clean lager finish. One is never enough! Prost!
Borobraü • 5.9% ABV
Description: A German-style Festbier brewed using traditional European methods. Toasty, doughy bready malt, herbal hops and a touch of caramel. Crisp, clean and balanced with clean finish.
Hoi-Hoi-Hoi! • 6.4% ABV
Description: Raise your mug to warm days and cool nights. Celebrate the season with a brew that boosts your spirits, with deep malt aromas and traditional lager flavors. Like a maple leaf in peak color, this reddish beauty is biscuity, malty and so endlessly quaffable, you may start speaking fluent German. Wünderbar!
Deep Roots Dunkelweizen • 5.5% ABV
Description: Deep Roots Dunkelweizen is a traditional Bavarian-style dark wheat beer with a modern, sustainable twist. We replaced 1/3 of the white wheat with rolled Kernza® perennial grain, which boasts a deep root system that helps prevent soil erosion, improves soil health, and sequesters carbon, making it a sustainable choice for brewing.
Effin Pumpkin • 6.7% ABV
Description: A saison style pumpkin beer with 45lbs of organic pumpkin. Don’t fall asleep on this one or you may lose your head.
Swiftwater Festbier • 5.8% ABV
Description: Floral, bready, and malty.
ONCtOberfest (2025) • 5.9% ABV
Description: Our annual Marzen is brewed with German malts (Pilsner, Pale, and Munich malts), German Nobel hops, and fermented with yeast from a Bavarian Monastery. Brewed earlier this year and given a long layering process, ONCtOberfest (2025) will be officially released September 21, ’25 at our 5th annual ONCtOberfest! The beer presents with a biscuity aroma (slight caramel note) that leads the way to a creamy, rich malty beer. This beer finishes moderately dry while keeping the rich malt backbone on the palette. Prost!
Harvest Zombie • 5% ABV
Description: Completely clobbered with blueberry, blackberry, NY-grown tart cherries and a light layer of apple puree. (Un)deadly delicious.
Concurrent Amber Lager • 5.5% ABV
Description: Concurrent is a single-decocted Märzen-style Amber Lager made with classic German malts and hops.
Pumpkin Pi • 6% ABV
Description: Our Pumpkin Pi beer, brewed with rich roasted pumpkin, is now pouring at Active Ingredient Brewing Company’s taproom! Served with a delectable caramel-cinnamon sugar rim, it’s the perfect fall treat to savor.
Mill House Oktoberfest • 5.4% ABV
Description: Generous amounts of Munich, Vienna, and Pilsner malts are complemented by German Noble Hops. The color of Fall in a glass – this beer is enjoyed best in a stein or das boot!
Horseman’s Pumpkin Ale • 7% ABV
Description: Silky smooth body with a punch of great pumpkin spices and just a touch of sweetness. Good for autumn rides through Sleepy Hollow with a flaming pumpkin for your head!
Seasonality • 5.5% ABV
Description: Honoring the traditional Oktoberfest, we used the finest German grains with noble hops to produce this beautifully caramel Märzen that pairs especially well with Autumn hues and cooling weather. Toasty, biscuity notes are complimented by a clean and crisp finish. Prost!
Inexplicable Use of Umlaut • 6% ABV
Description: Crunchy leaves call for the Crispest Lager! A total passion project- we brewed this in the dead heat of summer and have been cold lagering it ever since. Curious about the name? It’s a reference to bands like Motorhead and Motley Crew using Umlauts in their name with no real purpose.
Harvest • 5.7% ABV
Brewery at the CIA – Hyde Park, NY
Description: Harvest is an amber lager brewed in collaboration with Plan Bee Farm Brewery. This Marzen-style lager was brewed with 100% NY grown ingredients and features malty notes of toasted nuts, caramel, and fresh bread.
Klosterbock • 8.5% ABV
Eli Fish Brewing – Batavia, NY
Description: Klosterbock is a strong, dark Bavarian-style wheat beer brewed with over 50% wheat malt and fermented with a classic hefeweizen strain. It pours deep mahogany with aromas of banana bread, clove, and toasted malt and at 8.5% ABV, it’s equal parts monastery and mischief.
Best Fest • 5.2% ABV
Description: Simply the best! Every year we look forward to the start of fall and those first sips of our Oktoberfest. Brewed with German ingredients to honor tradition — because sometimes you don’t need to put your own spin on it!
Oatmeal Cookie Brown Ale • 5.4% ABV
Description: Traditional brown ale infused with locally-sourced oats and brewed with molasses, cinnamon, vanilla, and raisons. Tastes and smells like grandma’s kitchen.
Fest! Märzen-Style Lager • 5.1% ABV
Description: Across the pond they’ll be partying it up with their own Oktoberfest and Festbiers. To that end we created Fest! for the rest of us!
Trunk Sugar • 7.9% ABV
Description: Your favorite fall dessert served Brazen style, with a kick! Tart NYS apples, our secret blend of pie spices, a touch of brown sugar and a flaky, crispy crust are all blended together and enhanced with a cinnamon-sugar rim. No fall outing is complete without it!
Gatherings • 6% ABV
Description: A harvest-season amber ale wet-hopped with fresh NY Chinook. Notes of pine, citrus, and caramel malt capture the fleeting magic of fall and the warmth of coming together.
Horned Owl Oktoberfest • 5.7% ABV
Description: Prost glasses up high and enjoy the malty and toasty German Lager brewed with a decoction mash. With its beautiful red hue, medium body, and fluffy head.
Blue Collar Oktoberfest • 6% ABV
Description: A crisp malt forward German style amber lager brewed with Munich and Vienna malts.
Measuring Stick Märzen • 5.6% ABV
Description: This German-Style Märzen is a highly drinkable Oktoberfest-Style beer. Amber in color, this beer is malty, complex, and crisp, with notes of honey, light caramel, and toasted biscuit. Best enjoyed on a crisp autumn day, we encourage you to don your lederhosen and join us in saying “Prost” with a hefty mug of Measuring Stick Märzen! Zigge, Zagge, hoi, hoi, hoi.
Malty – Czech Style Amber Lager • 4.8% ABV
Description: Our Czech-inspired amber lager is perfect for fall weather! Made with NY grown barley malt & hops, we use a double decoction mash to bring out rich, toasty and caramel flavors balanced by spicy herbal NY grown USDA 032 hops for ultimate drinkability!
Munich Dunkel • 4.5% ABV
Description: Our Munich Dunkel is a light bodied dark lager with rich complex flavors of chocolate and toffee.
Leaf Peepers • 5.7% ABV
Description: This beer is the perfect pairing for your fall trip to the Hudson Valley! Leaf Peepers is our classic Märzen (Oktoberfest) lager made with Munich, Vienna, and Pilsner malts all grown in New York State. Fill your stein with this amber colored autumnal brew, raise a glass with a friend, and say “Prost!”
Strangebird Märzen • 6% ABV
Description: Märzen is an Octoberfest-style Amber Lager. This beer embodies Bavarian traditions of rich, malty, lager, brewed in spring, barrel-fermented, and lagered to perfection to finish the summer and welcome in autumn. Märzen has aromas of biscuit with graham cracker, honey, and pie crust, with oak, honeysuckle, and nutty notes.
Pumpkin Cream Ale • 6.3% ABV
Description: Our mega-popular Pumpkin Cream Ale has taken the traditional fall favorite to a delicious new level. Brewed with real pumpkin, tasty fall spices and vanilla, this beer is truly pumpkin pie in a glass.
Lucky (Festbier) • 5.2% ABV
Description: Modeled after the modern lagers typically served each Fall at the fairgrounds in Munich, Lucky is a lighter, more drinkable counterpart to the traditional, malty Märzen-style lager. A flavorful balance of country bread and floral hop notes!
Big aLICe Oktoberfest • 6.2% ABV
Description: As the leaves change and the temperatures start dropping, we have our fall classic back on the menu. Oktoberfest is a Marzen style lager that is easily drinkable with a focus on high quality malt.
Fall Farm Saison • 5.9% ABV
Description: This amber farmhouse ale is traditionally released to celebrate the coming of fall. A unique yeast strain and warm fermentation creates a saison with fruity aromas of bananas and orange and light spice notes of coriander. The refreshing carbonation and mild hop bitterness provide a lingering dry finish. Pair it with fall vegetables, cheddar cheeses and grilled poultry.
Pumpkin Pi • 6.28% ABV
Description: Made with real pumpkin and spiced to perfection, this beer is a slice of fall heaven!
Roktoberfest • 6% ABV
Description: Oktoberfest began as a wedding celebration in the 1800’s and beer has always been a featured aspect of the party. This offering by Three Heads is a nod to German brewing but with our own Rochester spin. It is the perfect union of malt and hops that make for a great brew to drink during the changing season. Prost!!! Brewed with love along with Munich, Vienna, CaraMunich and Pilsener Malts along with Hallertau Tradition Hops. .
Pumpkin Pie Ale • 5% ABV
Seneca Street Brew Pub – Manlius, NY
Description: Pumpkin Pie in a glass!
Abandon Oktoberfest • 4.8% ABV
Abandon Brewing Company – Penn Yan, NY
Description: This Amber German-style lager features a rich malt character derived from Munich and Vienna malts. Notes of bread, toast, figs and a slight malt sweetness are rounded out by a healthy dose of Hersbrucker hops.
Peak Color • 6.5% ABV
Grow Brewing Co. – New Hartford, NY
Description: Our celebration-of-harvest festbier with floor malted pilsner malt, dark Munich malt, and a touch of brumalt for an array of copper and amber hues offering a malty caramel and wildflower honey base in this double decocted lager. The beer is then hopped with Saaz and Krush, offering a Grow twist on a classic. Then co-fermented cool with our terpene blend to give an aroma of herbs, spice, and intense fall foliage. After cold conditioning for 7 weeks to a brilliant clarity, we are able to offer our take on a yearly tradition. Prost!
Iron Tug Festbier • 6.6% ABV
Iron Tug Brewing – Rochester, NY
Description: A German style Lager that is crisp and malty with notes of toast/bread, and honey.
Gourd Vibrations • 7.2% ABV
Wagner Valley Brewing Co – Lodi, NY
Description: A spiced pumpkin stout that is smooth and full-bodied with roasted and fresh pumpkin plus a blend of spices that includes cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger.
All Hallows’ Eve • 9% ABV
Spider Bite Beer Co. – Holbrook, NY
Description: We brew our Gold medal winning Imperial Pumpkin Ale with pumpkin pie spices. No rim required.
Old Klaverack Oktoberfest • 5.3% ABV
Old Klaverack Brewery – Hudson, NY
Description: Our Oktoberfest pour rich and malty with a crisp, clean finish– the kind of beer that makes a stein feel too small. It’s built for one more round!
Dassai Blue Nigori Sake • 14% ABV
Dassai Blue Sake Brewery – Hyde Park, NY
Description: DASSAI BLUE Nigori begins with Yamada Nishiki rice—revered as the “king of sake rice”—sourced from both Arkansas and Japan. The rice undergoes meticulous polishing to 50% before entering a 35-day fermentation process using pristine New York water. The signature cloudy appearance comes from blending moromi (fermentation mash) back into the pressed sake. This sake was just released on September 1st, 2025.
Eastwood Märzen • 6.5% ABV
Eastwood Brewing Company – Syracuse, NY
Description: Malt forward, rich amber colored lager, that will match your feels for NY lead peeping weather! Cheers!
Freight Yard Oktoberfest • 5% ABV
Freight Yard Brewing – Clay, NY
Description: Traditional Märzen amber lager with a lovely biscuity malt nose, smooth drinking and quaffable.
Sixteen Days • 7.1% ABV
Mean Max Brew Works – Glens Falls & Troy, NY
Description: Brewed with a blend of Munich, Vienna and caramel malts, and hopped with traditional German varieties, this beer is perfectly balanced ad deceptively drinkable. Celebrate the 16 days of Oktoberfest with Mean Max!
Octo-berfest • 5.9% ABV
Spotted Octopus Brewing – Rochester, NY
Description: A toasty, crisp autumn litre brewed with NY State Glacier hops, naturally carbonated, and cold lagered for 6 weeks. One sip and youll be swimming in an octopus’s (bier) garden under the sea!
Leaf Pile Ale • 5.2% ABV
Greenport Harbor Brewing – Peconic, NY
Description: Our pumpkin ale, this beer pours a copper color with a nose full of warm malts and fall spices. Brewed with a blend of light and medium crystal malts and just a touch of hops to provide a foundation for fresh crushed cinnamon, allspice, and ginger autumn goodness.
K2 Pumpkin Ale • 6.7% ABV
K2 Brothers Brewing – Rochester, NY
Description: Embrace the flavors of fall with our Pumpkin Ale, infused with warming cinnamon, aromatic pumpkin spice, earthy pumpkin puree and lots of smooth vanilla sweetness. It is sure to get you in the mood for the changing of leaves
Great Gourds a Smokin’ • 5.8% ABV
Forged Brewing Co. – Bainbridge, NY
Description: This fall beer is always a delight to make, from the spice covered pumpkin that we smoke to the mash and kettle time that makes our brewhouse smell like a bakery. Please enjoy our take on fall flavor.
Pomberry Crush Sour Ale • 4.5% ABV
Resurgence Brewing Co. – Buffalo, NY
Description: A light, crisp, and elegant sour ale, this brew blends tart blackberry with vibrant pomegranate for the perfect balance of fruitiness and gentle acidity. With flavors reminiscent of Grandma’s homemade jam, it’s an effortlessly delicious sip for any occasion.
Brooklyn Oktoberfest • 5.5% ABV
Brooklyn Brewery – Brooklyn, NY
Description: Celebrate the world’s most famous beer festival wherever you are with Brooklyn Oktoberfest. Our Märzen lager harnesses sweet, bready malts and traditional German noble hops to create a smooth, crowd-pleasing festbier.
Sugar Bob’s Rauchbier • 5.8% ABV
Ausable Brewing Company – Keeseville, NY
Description: Sugar Bob’s Rauchbier is the perfect beer for cool Fall nights around the campfire. This unique style is brewed with NY grown barley, German Munich malts and beechwood smoked barley, then we naturally carbonate this smoky brown ale with smoked maple syrup from Sugar Bob’s Finest Kind.
Altoberama • 4% ABV
Description: A twist on a German Altbier. We leveraged Norwegian Kveik yeast to enhance the flavor profile while targeting a lower ABV so you can enjoy an extra pint this Octoberfest season.
Brown’s Festbier • 5.8% ABV
Description: Malty, smooth, and clean, our seasonal Festbier is crisp and golden—a true-to-style counterpart to the bolder Märzens traditionally served during Oktoberfest.
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