Annual Beer Festivals

Belgian Beer Festival (Brussels) - early September
Borefts Beer Festival (at De Molen Brewery in Netherlands) - late September
London Craft Beer Festival - mid-August

Obviously Munich's Oktoberfest from late September till early October.

Hopefully going to Borefts this year.

 

Man that isn't even the best Founders Beer fest. You should have waited a couple weeks and went to Black Party. It's better than KBS week every year.

 

Darkness Day at Surly on a Saturday in October every year. Camp out over night at the brewery to get your bottles. Bottle shares and trading all night/day long.

 

Here are my favorites:
Festival of the Dark Arts at Fort George in Astoria, OR
Farmhouse & Wild Ale Festival at Saraveza in Portland, OR
Fest de Peche at Saraveza in Portland, OR

 

Might as well throw out the biggest of 'em all: Great America Beer Festival. The whole week is nuts.

 

Great Taste of the Midwest is my favorite festival.
Festival of Barrel Aged Beers is good but too crowded for me.
Never been but Firestone Walker has something in the spring for Parabola and in the fall for their Anniversary release
Sun King has a CANvitational and I believe Oscar Blues has something similar
Hunaphu Day

 

Ballpark Brewbash in Buffalo, NY is pretty good. VIP tickets are the way to go
Attached is list of VIP beer from last year. and I had them all, thank goodness wife was driving !!
http://www.ballparkbrewbash.com/ Regular list
http://www.ballparkbrewbash.com/vip VIP

 

I think most states have an annual beer fest.

 

American Craft Beer Fest.
Extreme Beer Fest.

 

The Michigan Brewers Guild throws a Winter, a Spring, a Summer and a Fall Fest each year. Winter and Summer are both Fri & Sat now, but I don't think the other two are yet.

The World Beer Expo in Frankenmuth, MI happens in May each year, and it is Fri & Sat.

Short's Brewing has an anniversary fest in May each year.

Lansing has an Old Town Beer Fest which I think is in June?

Brattleboro, VT has a fest that I went to last year. I think it was in June. Very nice selection of VT breweries.

So many festivals..... so little time.

 

Is there a website or link that has an updated list of every beer festival around? Or most of them?

 

I go to:
EXTREME BEER FEST BOSTON
ACBF BOSTON
MASSACHUSETTS BREWERS GUILD FEST
Those three every year. The mass brewers guild fest is awesome. Outside, live music etc...

 

Nottingham Robin Hood Festival held in the grounds of Nottingham Castle every October. The biggest cask ale festival on the planet in terms of choice (well over 1000). Plus over 200 craft ciders and perries thrown in.

 

Everyone talks about the OBF, GABF, GTMW, and they are good....but the lesser-known one in Oregon is the Holiday Ale Fest, which is my personal favorite. Its set right downtown and outside, underneath tents...with tons of great beers flowing, and lots of delicious foods and holiday spirit. Highly recommended.

 

Dark Lord Day
I know around here alot of the big Cities have their own brew fests that bring in lots of southeastern brewers.

 

NYC beer week is pretty cool...
http://newyorkcitybrewersguild.com/beer-week/2015-beer-week/

 

The Washington Brewers Festival, held every Fathers Day weekend. http://washingtonbeer.com/festivals/washington-brewers-festival.php The Washington Beer Commission puts on several really good fests throughout the year.

 

The annual Florida Brewers Guild Fest that kicks off Tampa Bay Beer Week (usually the first week of March) draws just about every brewery in the state so it's a tremendous way to "hit" a ton of Florida breweries in one stop. Also, it's a cool location along the river and then TBBW is a ridiculous 10 days.

The Vermont Brewers Festival (usually mid-July) is phenomenal and certainly the prettiest venue (along the shore of Lake Champlain) of any festival I've attended.

 

And the beer descriptions are here: http://washingtonbeer.com/cms_docs/2015WABF_Beer_List.pdf