Beer Fest Prices

[betarhoalphadelta]

This is one of my favorites in my area. Nothing beats homebrewed beer fest! And it takes place downtown KC, MO!

Now THIS is a homebrew fest: https://www.calhomebrewers.org/events/homebrew-festival/

Typically 35-40 homebrew clubs in attendance. Each one serving an average of maybe 15 beers (some lower, some as many as 30+) during the course of the day.

 

[BigJoeBrew]

Nice one! It is always fun to see the ingenuity that homebrewers have at these fests. I enjoy checking out all the dispensing rigs people have built and producing 5 gals or so at a time, you can get a ton of different variations of beers.

 

[planker101]

http://www.firestonebeer.com/brewery/invitational-beer-fest.php
Paying $90 after fees for the ticket, plus hotel, gas, food and likely some beers to bring home. I am generally frugal and this will oretty much be my fun budget for the summer, but going with some friends and expect to have a good time. I say if you can afford and will enjoy it it's worth it. The pat two years this festival wasn't worth it because I would have been stressing about the cost instead of having fun.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

http://www.firestonebeer.com/brewery/invitational-beer-fest.php
Paying $90 after fees for the ticket, plus hotel, gas, food and likely some beers to bring home. I am generally frugal and this will oretty much be my fun budget for the summer, but going with some friends and expect to have a good time. I say if you can afford and will enjoy it it's worth it. The pat two years this festival wasn't worth it because I would have been stressing about the cost instead of having fun.

That looks good, and I trust FW to put on a classy event...

...unfortunately it's already sold out according to Eventbrite

 

[planker101]

That looks good, and I trust FW to put on a classy event...

...unfortunately it's already sold out according to Eventbrite

Yeah, sells out almost instantly. I wasn't aboe to get any tickets, but luckily my cousin got an extra for me.

 

[DrunkenCanuck]

Beer festivals in Canada are often a lot more than that, OP. In Toronto they are about $150 a head.

 

[Zuljin]

Beer festivals in Canada are often a lot more than that, OP. In Toronto they are about $150 a head.

What do you get for that price?

 

[DrunkenCanuck]

What do you get for that price?

Depends on the event, some are more expensive. The Toronto Craft Beer Festival in June is $55 for VIP which gets you 10 samples and a sampling glass. Cask Days I know was about $100 but I don't remember how many samples I got. Granted, everything in Toronto is usually more expensive.

 

[KayaBrew]

Went up to the Belle Centre in Montreal with my Dad 3 weeks ago to see the Habs play the Sabres and I walked in and bought 2 16 oz cans of Molson Export and paid $21 Canadian. This is in an arena that is blocks from the Molson factory to see a team owned by Jeff Molson. I guess I've been living under a rock...

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

FYI the "Beer & Tater Tots" fest was this past weekend... Based on everything I had heard, and read, and the fact that it was sold out and people were looking for tickets, my girlfriend and I still went to San Diego, sold our tickets, and then just went brewery-hopping...

Lunch at Toronado in North Park, followed by Mike Hess Brewing, then Modern Times, and finished up at Acoustic Ales before going to dinner.

I think it was a much better decision