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- Category: News
- Our Lockport tap room is open! Everything you need to know
- Lockport Update 2025: Construction is over – opening day is next!
- NA BURNER BEER PONG CHAMPIONSHIP!
- Final Lockport Update of 2024: We are close!
- NOW HIRING: Back of house positions for Lockport Tap Room
- NYE 2024 at Big Ditch!
- Stoutsgiving 2024
- Introducing: NA Burner
- 10 YEARS OF SELLING BEER!
- LOCKPORT MENU SNEAK PEEK DURING BUFFALO RESTAURANT WEEK!
- STRANGEBURNER VOL 2 HAS ARRIVED!
- TURKEY TROTTER is back for the 3rd consecutive year!
- Now Hiring: LOCKPORT TAP ROOM!
- FALL INFLATION BUSTER MENU!
- Free Tap Room Parking!
- OKTOBERFEST IS BACK THIS FRIDAY!
- “FUNHOUSE MIRRORS” LIMITED RELEASE THIS FRIDAY!
- What to do in Buffalo!
- NEW INFLATION BUSTER MENU!
- All good things must come to end – Final Innovation Thursday
- AFTERBURNER LIMITED RELEASE THIS FRIDAY!
- OVERDUE: AN UPDATE ON LOCKPORT
- New Summer Food Menu!
- DOUBLE CAN RELEASE FRIDAY!
- MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH AND STRAWBERRY FROSÉ SLUSHIES!
- SPORT JORTS DOUBLE IPA RELEASE FRIDAY!
- DRINK & EAT AROUND THE WORLD AT OUR 9TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY!
- It’s Buffalo Restaurant Week!
- BIG DITCH RUN CLUB 2024
- EVENT SPACE OPEN HOUSE
- ECLIPSE WEEKEND AT BIG DITCH!
- PINEAPPLE BURNER IN 12OZ CANS!
- MILES ON THE 90 “WEST COAST-STYLE IPA” BEER RELEASE – FRIDAY 2/24
- JOIN THE SHOVEL SQUAD!
- BEER RELEASE THIS SATURDAY!
- WNY ECLIPSE!
- DOUBLE BEER RELEASE FRIDAY 12/15/23!
- A Love Affair with Lockport
- It’s a Kringle Miracle GIVEAWAY!
- NEW YEAR’S EVE AT BIG DITCH!
- WE’RE OPENING A NEW TAP ROOM!
- Stoutsgiving 2023!
- Kringle Juice is available now!
- Turkey Trotter is back for 2023!
- WNY BEER WEEK IS BACK!
- OKTOBERFEST WEEK at the tap room!
- NO PUNTS INTENDED is back for the season!
- BASICALLY JUICE & SLAYBURNER – AVAILABLE NOW!
- DOUBLE BEER RELEASE THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 30!
- Our New Tap Room Menu Is Live!
- MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND DOUBLE CAN RELEASE!
- West Coast Burner Drops Friday 4/28!
- Introducing Little Waves Lager
- INNOVATION THURSDAYS
- WE’RE TURNING 8! Let’s party!
- Best Hayburner Homebrew Clone Contest Rules
- THE GREAT 10AM HAYBURNER TOAST
- No Punts Intended!
- Hayburner Home Brew Kits Available Now!
- Syracuse Hayburner Hoops Challenge!
- CELEBRATE NEW YEARS WITH US!
- STOUTSGIVING 2022!
- Introducing Mixed 12 Packs!
- Clonakilty & Big Ditch Irish Whiskey Collab
- “Turkey Trotter” – The Official Beer of the Buffalo Turkey Trot
- Fall Barrel Aged Bottle Release Friday 9/16
- We’re Releasing 5 Beers This Week!
- Big Ditch Run Club!
- We’re in the Capital Region!
- DOUBLE BEER RELEASE SATURDAY 8/13/22
- Hayburner Now Available in 12 Packs!
- Capital Region Launch Party
- The New Brewery – Part II
- #Celebrate – we’ve got ourselves a brand new brewery
- Triple Can Release Friday July, 1st
- Big Ditch Summer Run Series
- FLOW RIDER – THE OFFICIAL BEER OF RIDE FOR ROSWELL – AVAILABLE NOW
- Donations collected for Everytown for Gun Safety on National Gun Violence Awareness Day
- Memorial Day Weekend Double Can Release
- HAYBURNER FOR UKRAINE CAN RELEASE FRIDAY 5/20
- Mother’s Day Brunch 2022
- THE REWIND – Big Ditch Brewing 7th Anniversary Party
- Beer Release Info – April 1, 2022
- “Ferris Brewer’s Day Off” – Dayburner Refreshing IPA is back
- Ukrainian Dark Lager to support UAFF to be released on Friday 3/25.
- St. Patrick’s Day / NCAA Tourney Tap Room Specials 3/17!
- New Beers – Friday 1/28
- KC Rematch Tap Room Update – OPEN FOR THE ENTIRE GAME – FREE HAYBURNER GLASSES AT HALFTIME!
- New Menu 2022
- FINAL BEER RELEASE OF 2021!
- We’re opening a new production brewery downtown!
- New Year’s Eve 2021 at Big Ditch Brewing Company
- Stoutsgiving 2021 – The Return
- Beer Release 10/22: French Toast Cinnamon Apple, Power Ballad DIPA, and BttlB: West Coast IPA
- The Beerie County Fair (A WNY Brewery Week Event)
- AWARD WINNING ANNOUNCEMENT!
- CAN RELEASE THIS FRIDAY 8/20/2021!
- FLOW RIDER debut at Beers & Gears – 7/29
- JULY 4th WEEKEND CAN RELEASE!
- For baseball fans going to the Blue Jays games at Sahlen Field!
- Big Ditch/Young Lion Collab: Strong Alone/Better Together IPAs
- COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic at Big Ditch
- DOUBLE IPA / DOUBLE CAN RELEASE / SATURDAY 5/8
- Sixth Anniversary Party!
- TRIPLE IPA CAN RELEASE ALERT: SATURDAY 4/17!
- Open for Easter Brunch!
- CAN RELEASE! FRIDAY MARCH 19!
- Lock IPA #11: Feeder – Available 2/12/21
- Tap room closed as of 1-8-21 at 4pm
- Playoff package announcements!
- New Year’s Eve Specialty IPA Can Release!
- PLAYOFF CONTEST: FIND A BIG GAME TICKET IN A MAKE ME WANNA STOUT SIXPACK, WIN THIS BIG DITCH PLAYOFF HOODIE!
- Hayburner Homebrew Kits for sale!
- Shipshape Pilsner Can Release!
- Tap Room Shutdown – part II
- Stoutsgiving 2020
- Tap room seating update: 11-9-2020
- New Facility Update (October 2020)
- Matt’s YMCA Turkey Trot Fundraiser
- Brunch!
- Triple can release! Tropic Vision Fruited Sour + 2 IPAs
- New Menu Update!
- DDH Hayburner / Dayburner Labor Day Can Release
- Bidwell Wild 2020 release
- New Facility Update (August 2020)
- A National IPA Day Tale: The Hayburner Story
- Be Smart, Stay Open – Our Safety Policy
- Lime Rider – the beer we brewed to benefit the Ride for Roswell
- Helles Superior: a collaboration with Brewery Ommegang
- Black is Beautiful: Buffalo brewery collaboration
- Independence Weekend Quadruple Can Release!
- Now accepting private event bookings!
- THE FINAL CHOCOLATE HAYBURNER CAN HAS BEEN FOUND!
- OUR TAP ROOM IS OPENING TUESDAY 6/16!
- Brewing the perfect shutdown beer
- ROCHESTER-AREA CHOCOLATE HAYBURNER CAN FOUND! BUFFALO-AREA CHOCOLATE HAYBURNER STILL REMAINS UNFOUND
- Peach Waves Sour IPA, Packet, Deep Cut release – 5/22 (pickup only)
- Big Ditch 5th Anniversary “not-a-party” Party
- Space Donkey + Cannon Call release (pickup/delivery only)
- QUARANTINE CONTEST: FIND THE “CHOCOLATE HAYBURNER” CAN, WIN A CASE OF BEER EVERY MONTH FOR A YEAR
- Emergency Blood Drive at Big Ditch Brewing
- Tap Room Shutdown / Retail Opening – 3/16/2020
- Tap room controls to prevent the spread of COVID-19
- Big Ditch Brewing Company Announces Plans for Second Facility
- After a wonderful winter of beer festivals, Buffalo belongs in the conversation of best beer destinations in America.
- How to carve your turkey like a restaurant pro on Thanksgiving
- Big Ditch Brewing Company Supports Camp Good Days’ 40th Anniversary Camper Reunion
- Big Ditch Brewing Company Celebrates Four-Year Anniversary
- Big Ditch Brewing Company Partners with New Belgium Brewing
- Year In Review: 2018
- The Importance of Beer Education in Western New York
- Fun new toys
- Year in review: 2017
- Continuous Improvement
- Production vs. Innovation
- Lock IPA Series: An Introduction
- Our new pilsner, and the thing about craft lagers
- Ten reasons to head to Big Ditch during your NCAA tournament visit
- Deep Cut Double IPA Can Release: The Details
- Year in review: 2016
- The culmination of our summer: cans
- Brief thoughts: Why Craft Beer?
- The allure of sour
- TAP New York and brewery expansion rundown
- Introducing: Clearburner
- The Bidwell Wild Experiment.
- What we learned from the New England beer scene (in 3 days)
- 2015: Year in Review
- The session: Are breweries your friends?
- Beer schedules. And schedules. And beer.
- Beer Week!!!!! (and beyond)
- Our tap room is open! And other pertinent information.
- Final retail hours – this weekend…!
- Final tap room update.
- Event log: Winter 2015
- 2014: Year in review (and another tap room update)
- Events – week of 11/24
- Open for growler sales and samplings November 19th! (plus: a tap room update)
- Account List 11/14/14
- Final thoughts, and thanks
- Beer in Buffalo and beyond! Beginning on October 16th!
- The beers
- Finally! When and where you can try our beer
- Looking back (part 2 of 2)
- Brew Day!
- Looking forward (part 1 of 2)
- Brewer’s corner: Craft quality control
- We’ve got a brewery – and an opening day timeline!
- There is hope in brick and stone
- Calm before the storm.
- The reveal, part II
- Big Game picks: ahem, Growler Picks, that is
- 2013: Year in Review.
- Like and share for free Big Ditch glasses!
- It’s repeal day – and Buffalo has come full circle.
- A moment of thanks.
- Dotting the “I”s. Crossing the “T”s.
- In the garage (Part II)
- In the garage (In the garage (Part I)II)
- Latest and greatest.
- The reveal.
- A Hoppy Paradox.
- Feedback.
- Are we all crazy? Thoughts on the Craft Brewers Conference.
- Out and about.
- The year in review.
- Where. It’s. At.
- Beer Week: From my Point of View
- Beer, and, society. Or, I’m glad someone else understands Twitter better than me.
- Getting closer…
- It’s not just the motion in the ocean
- If the brew fits…
- The road, more or less travelled
- Where do we begin?
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