Your favorite vegan food vendors from around New England, all gathered together in one place, happening indoors and out, rain or shine!

Please note that tickets are MANDATORY! They're free (unless you want to skip the entry line and help support the one person organizing this whole thing, in which case they're $12.51) so please get them before you show up!

Our vendor lineup:

Little Loaf Bakery

Midcoast Vegan

Veegmyeats

RastaRant

Belmont Vegetarian

Peckish

Mothers Moss

Madrina Vegana

Grounded Confections

Vegan Pizza Land

Like No Udder

Lassi Lab

Thai Chili Truck

Spilled Milk Gang

Tendril (live plants!)

Save the Buns

Compassion Co.

Toad and Turnip

Western Mass Animal Rights

This event is all-ages, family friendly, and will happen INDOORS and OUTDOORS, rain or shine, at Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton. Plenty of free parking on site!

As always we will be hosting a food/donation drive for the Food Bank of Western Mass so please bring your unopened, unexpired, shelf stable foods, cash, and checks made out to Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.

Follow us on Instagram for updates @westernmassveganfoodfest

Come enjoy live music with Owen Zaret
Saturday June 2,2026 at 6pm

Give what you can - all donations go to the Easthampton Skate Park.

Get ready for the Second Food Truck Friday of 2025 at Easthampton’s favorite craft microbrewery. We will be featuring these food trucks

• Cote’s Cooks

• La Veracruzana

• Local Burger

• Island Spice

• Crooked Stick Pops

As always, our in-house Vegan Pizza Land will be open in our Speakeasy Alleyway Beer Garden which is separate from where the rest of Food Truck Friday kicks off. Live music performed by The Claudia Malibu starting at 6pm.

Wondering where to park for Food Truck Friday. Please refrain from parking behind the Eastworks building. Other options include between the mills and the bike path, the overflow lot across from Eastworks, the Mill Side Park Parking Lot, and along Pleasant Street where allowed.

The kick off to a new Trivia event in our Living Room Tap Room starting at 7pm.

Once a month our esteemed Mug Club Members get to enjoy a special beer release in our tap room.

Free adult yoga class from 6-7pm in the Living Room Taproom with Nikki.

Don’t forget to hydrate with a fresh beer afterwards!

Get ready for the First Food Truck Friday of 2025 at Easthampton’s favorite craft microbrewery. We will be featuring these food trucks

• Myers Catering (Formerly Riff’s)

• La Veracruzana

• PMA Provisions

• Thai Chili

• Crooked Stick Pops

As always, our in-house Vegan Pizza Land will be open in our Speakeasy Alleyway Beer Garden which is separate from where the rest of Food Truck Friday kicks off. Live music performed by Masala Jazz starting at 6pm.

Wondering where to park for Food Truck Friday. Please refrain from parking behind the Eastworks building. Other options include between the mills and the bike path, the overflow lot across from Eastworks, the Mill Side Park Parking Lot, and along Pleasant Street where allowed.

The kick off to a new Trivia event in our Living Room Tap Room starting at 7pm.

An Entomologist walks into a bar … to get a buzz!

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 • Doors open at 6:00pm

Talk begins at ~6:30pm

Abandoned Building Brewery
142 Pleasant Street #103a, Easthampton, MA

Big Bees, Little Bees: What We Know About Insect Body Size in a Changing Climate

• Bees are under multiple stressors: what are they, and how do they interact?

• Bees come in all shapes and sizes: how can we build predictive models using a trait based approach?

• When half your PhD site catches on fire, what do you do?

• How does a scientist shave a bee?… and why?

Jennifer VanWyk is an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Global Change at Hamsphire College. She is a community ecologist and entomologist. Her research addresses factors that govern community dynamics for native bee populations, including disease transmission, plant-pollinator networks, environmental stressors, and community response to human disturbances. VanWyk received her B.A. in biology with a focus in botany from Vassar College, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California, Davis.

VanWyk focuses on how plant and insect traits mediate species interactions, and how these interactions — both mutualistic and antagonistic — affect bee population dynamics and broader ecological outcomes. Her current work on tomatoes, heatwaves, and a protozoan bee parasite, addresses basic ecological questions in an applied agricultural context. VanWyk’s work in pollination ecology and bee health has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, and the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Before joining the faculty at Hampshire College as an agroecologist, she taught ecology, entomology, environmental science, and experimental design at California State University, Chico, Mount Holyoke College, and UMass Amherst.

Bring a friend and join us as we enjoy lively conversations, prizes, and brilliant minds. Light refreshments will be available outside the presentation room, first come, first served. This is an inclusive, family-friendly event for people from all walks of life (ALL are very much welcome: kids, college students, your parents!). We promise, you’ll learn something if you come. And hey, you might even win a prize! Remember… Admission is FREE!

ABB allows guests to bring outside food! Please feel free to brings your own snacks with you, too.

SciTech Cafe events are open to any one with a curious mind regardless of age and background.  Our events, prizes, and snacks are free, but donations are appreciated. 

This event is hosted by Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton, MA.

Our 12 Year Anniversary will be celebrated in traditional Abandoned Building Brewery style with a huge outdoor beer garden in our notorious parking lot, dwarfed by our hulking 1910 red brick mill building to the North and the picturesque Lower Mill Pond and Mt. Tom to the South.

Our celebration features a Special Release Anniversary beer. We will also have our regular offering of 14 beers plus some of our new hard seltzers (made with our own in-house distilled vodka, yes we now are a brewery and distillery!!) for a total of 20 offerings. Our brewery team has spent weeks brewing, conditioning, and preparing to have all these wonderful releases ready at the same time. Stay tuned for all the details on the special releases in the week leading up to May 16.

The day will be filled with various food trucks, live music, commemorative glassware, memories to share, and friends’ company to enjoy.

Thai Chili and La Veracruana will be in the main beer garden while our in-house Vegan Pizza Land can be found in our Speakeasy Alleyway Beer Garden.

Entry to the Party is $5 which includes a commemorative 11 Year Anniversary Beer Glass (while supplies last, we did run our of them last year). For those who are collecting all our signature anniversary glasses, we have been releasing them along with each anniversary party since 2015 (year 2).

Biking and walking are encouraged! We are asking all of our customers who drive to not park behind the Eastworks building on the day of our Anniversary party (or on any of our Food Truck Friday dates moving forward.) Any other location is fine to park at. This includes the lot across Pleasant Street in front of the Keystone Building, the lot at Mill Pond Park, the public parking along Pleasant Street and Ferry St, and behind the other mills. Look for helpful signage.

See you on Saturday May 16, 2026!

The kick off to a new Trivia event in our Living Room Tap Room starting at 7pm.

Free adult yoga class from 6-7pm in the Living Room Taproom with Nikki.

Don’t forget to hydrate with a fresh beer afterwards!

Sunday Jazz Lam Matinee from 3-5pm followed by Improv Comedy

Both performances will be in our Living Room Tap Room.

Finish the week right

Come enjoy the taproom and some cold beer with Ch’CHUNK, it’s swing night!

Dance to the live band Ch’CHUNK from 6:30-9:30.

At 5:30, don't forget dance class with The Lindy League of Western Massachusetts (Swing Dancing)

ch'CHUNK! is a band located in Western Massachusetts that is a modern take on classic swing. They perform classics as well as originals. The name ch'CHUNK! was derived from the sound and type of strumming associated with various types of swing music. They are happy to have found that their shows are enjoyed by an audience of many generations. 

Band members are Jack Dwyer on guitar and vocals, Ian Hamel on tenor guitar and vocals, Hannah Elliot on clarinet and vocals, Karim Sumun on bass guitar, Chris Trevethan on drums and washboard, and Jim Rutter on tenor banjo and mandolin.

Facebook Event Page Here

The kick off to a new Trivia event in our Living Room Tap Room starting at 7pm.

Free adult yoga class from 6-7pm in the Living Room Taproom with Nikki.

Don’t forget to hydrate with a fresh beer afterwards!

The kick off to a new Trivia event in our Living Room Tap Room starting at 7pm.

A physical activity epidemiologist walks into a bar… and says, “I earned this—I parked really far away!

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 • Doors open at 6:00pm

Talk begins at ~6:30pm

Abandoned Building Brewery
142 Pleasant Street #103a, Easthampton, MA

Do I Really Need 10,000 Steps a Day?

• How many steps do we need for health and longevity benefits?

• Does intensity matter, or is it just about total steps?

• Beyond how many steps we take, what role do other activity patterns play in overall health (like sitting less, strength training, and “weekend warrior” exercise)?

Amanda Paluch is a Associate Professor of Kinesiology at UMass Amherst. She is a physical activity epidemiologist and kinesiologist focused on advancing the measurement and promotion of physical activity. Her research includes developing wearable sensor technologies to monitor movement and health. As an epidemiologist, Amanda studies the associations of physical activity and chronic disease with an emphasis on advancing the science on daily steps as a public health metric. Her long-term goal is to reduce the burden of chronic disease and promote healthy aging through technology-assisted physical activity interventions that can be disseminated through clinicians and population-level efforts.

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Bring a friend and join us as we enjoy lively conversations, prizes, and brilliant minds. Light refreshments will be available outside the presentation room, first come, first served. This is an inclusive, family-friendly event for people from all walks of life (ALL are very much welcome: kids, college students, your parents!). We promise, you’ll learn something if you come. And hey, you might even win a prize! Remember… Admission is FREE!

ABB allows guests to bring outside food! Please feel free to brings your own snacks with you, too.

SciTech Cafe events are open to any one with a curious mind regardless of age and background.  Our events, prizes, and snacks are free, but donations are appreciated. 

This event is hosted by Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton, MA.

Sunday Jazz Lam Matinee from 3-5pm followed by Improv Comedy

Both performances will be in our Living Room Tap Room.

Finish the week right

The kick off to a new Trivia event in our Living Room Tap Room starting at 7pm.

Once a month our esteemed Mug Club Members get to enjoy a special beer release in our tap room.

Free adult yoga class from 6-7pm in the Living Room Taproom with Nikki.

Don’t forget to hydrate with a fresh beer afterwards!

Sunday Jazz Lam Matinee from 3-5pm followed by Improv Comedy

Both performances will be in our larger tap room, The Brickyard.

Finish the week right

Come enjoy live music and cold beer with Matt Hebert & Friends on Saturday, April 18 from 6:30-9:00 pm in the taproom.

Western Mass Comedy presents Punch Line, A comedy Show Where Jokes Hit Hard, at Abandoned Building Brewery on Friday April 17 starting at 8pm sharp in our Living Room Tap Room. Get Tickets Here

The kick off to a new Trivia event in our Living Room Tap Room starting at 7pm.

Free adult yoga class from 6-7pm in the Living Room Taproom with Nikki.

Don’t forget to hydrate with a fresh beer afterwards!