How your tree (and you!) can be part of Dancing Grain's Disco Inferno
If dragging your Christmas tree to the side of the road is an already-assigned task in your home, it's U-turn time.
No more dragging your Christmas tree to the side of the road on Dec. 26.
Dancing Grain has a much more fun idea: Let that tree burn, baby, burn — at a farm-to-glass brewery during a Disco Inferno party Jan. 10.
But don’t worry — they know that nothing epitomizes the post-Christmas blahs like the crunch of dry Christmas tree needles under slippered feet. You can drop off your tree anytime starting the day after Christmas.
“Bring us your tree instead of putting it by the side of the road,” says Rachel McDermott, the founder and maestro of, well, everything at this vertically integrated field-to-glass operation.
Dancing Grain Farm Brewery, nestled on 300 acres in Moreau, uses 100% New York-grown ingredients for its beer, including malted barley grown on the estate, wild hops, wild yeast, and fruit from nearby orchards.
Dancing Grain is also come one, come all (meaning dogs and kids are welcome, and so is everyone else) for everything from football games (go Bills) to one-off events — like the upcycled Christmas Tree Bonfire.
“We’re going to have a huge bonfire on January 10 for families, fueled by everyone’s old Christmas trees,” McDermott explains. “There will be bonfire-friendly beer like our newly released Crop Circles Disco Inferno of course, but also popcorn hot cider, cocoa, food from 80K Upstate Street Plates, sledding and a dance party.”
Sledding? Dance party?
“The sledding happens on our huge hill, and the dance party will be in a heated tent with a bar,” she says. “We’re encouraging people to dress up, and the tent will be decorated to look like an old-school disco.”
McDermott provides the beer, music, warmth, fire and fun. You bring the sled. And the tree—but drop it before the event pretty please.
“We are accepting unlimited Christmas tree drop-offs between December 26 and January 10 at 2 p.m.,” McDermott says. “We’re opening the brewery for the event at 3 p.m., but the bonfire happens at 6 p.m.”
Drop your tree at 180 Old West Rd in Gansevoort Dec. 26 through Jan. 10 at 2 p.m.; $10 fee goes to the South Glens Falls Fire Dept. The Disco Inferno bonfire will rage Jan. 10 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. For more info, visit dancinggrain.com.
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