LYMAN — Fun will be on tap Saturday during the Funky Fest at the Funky Bow Brewery and Beer Company.

Funky Fest will be held at 25 Ledgewood Lane, on a dirt road off Route 35 that leads to the top of the hill, where the brewery sits on 25 acres owned by Paul Lorrain.

Funky Fest will run from 1-5 p.m. and feature beers from 10 York County brewing companies, four live bands and four food trucks.

Earlier this week, Lorrain gave a tour of the brewery, while staff spread hay outside where the festival will take place.

“All the best breweries from York County will be here. They’re making fantastic beer,” said Lorrain. “It’s going to be a great time.”

As Lorrain talks, his friendly pet dogs follow him. The festival site is also home to a farm, where Lorrain has grown lettuce for 17 years.

Lorrain is expecting a few hundred people Saturday, but the farm and brewery is no stranger to large crowds. Friday nights, the brewery hosts growler nights, with free pizza cooked on-site in a brick oven with crusts made from spent grain from the brewery, and Lorrain said these nights attract up to 200 people.

Visitors who come to drink beer love the farm atmosphere, he said, and the brewery and farm are a natural fit.

On Saturday, he said, there will be a horse feeding station, where someone will be on hand to help people feed his horses apples and carrots.

Lorrain started the brewery with his son, Abraham, about a year and a half ago. He said he and his son had drifted apart, and reconnected after seven years.

Lorrain bought brewing supplies and the two decided to give brewing beer a try. At first, they were making 200 gallons a week, and now they’re making 2,000 gallons a week.

Lorrain said they’ve caught the wave of the beer business at the right time.

And the name? Lorrain is a fiddler, and Funky Bow is a reference to fiddling.

With his lettuce-growing business, Lorrain had an “in” at many restaurants, and was able to sell his beer to different eating establishments.

He’ll soon be selling his beer in cans at stores across Maine, so people who have liked his beer at a restaurant can buy a six-pack at the store the next day to take home.

“There are so many breweries you can’t have good beer, you need great beer,” said Lorrain.

According to statistics from the Brewers Association of Maine, in 2013, with 47 craft breweries, ranked 20th for amount of breweries, and ranked fifth across the nation for breweries per capita. With 259,654 gallons of craft beer produced that year, Maine ranked 15th in the country for production.

Tickets to Funky Fest are $45. For more information, go to www.funkybowbeercompany.com.

— Staff Writer Liz Gotthelf can be contacted at 282-1535, ext. 325 or [email protected].