Nashua River Brewers Festival returns for a final Last Call edition
The 16th Nashua River Brewers Festival came back to Riverfront Park as a farewell Last Call, with more than two dozen brewers, cider-makers and $100,000 raised for local causes.
The Nashua River Brewers Festival is back at Riverfront Park in Fitchburg on Saturday, June 27, and organizers are billing the 16th annual gathering as a final Last Call after 16 years of turning beer sales into local donations. The festival runs from 1 to 5 p.m., and the closing chapter gives an already established summer fixture a more pointed kind of weight.
More than two dozen craft brewers are joining independent cider-makers from across New England under a large tent in Downtown Fitchburg, with three live music acts, three food trucks, lawn games and a collectible commemorative glass in the mix. Beer, wine and ready-to-drink cocktails widen the draw beyond the hardest-core beer crowd, which has helped make the event useful for groups that want a festival without having to agree on what everyone is drinking.
The charitable record is what gives the Last Call branding its sting. Beers For Good says the festival has raised more than $100,000 for North Central Massachusetts nonprofits since it started in 2008, with beneficiaries including the Nashua River Watershed Association and Fitchburg Civic Days. Last year’s festival generated a $6,500 donation to Ginny’s Helping Hand & Food Pantry in Leominster and another $1,000 for Fitchburg Civic Days, proof that one afternoon of samples can still send real money back into the community.
Organizers say all proceeds go to local charities, and Beers For Good also pays for spring and fall irrigation service at Riverfront Park when the City requests it. Early-bird tickets started at $30 plus fees and rose to $45 plus fees on the day of the event, subject to availability. After 16 editions, the festival’s farewell is about more than losing a tasting session in the park. It is the end of a dependable downtown ritual that connected breweries, cider-makers, bands and nonprofits in one place, and the Last Call label lands hardest because that connection was the whole point.
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