Philly Craft Beer Festival and Atlantic City Beer Festival
Saturday, March 3 marks the inaugural Philly Craft Beer Festival. According to the organizers:
The PHILLY CRAFT BEER FEST is a true craft beer tasting featuring an incredible variety of beers from some of the finest brewers in the country.
And from the information on the site it looks as if they mean business. Fifty breweries will be on hand with each bringing two or three beers - that is a lot of beer to sample! Food will be available for purchase and a band will be on hand to keep your toes tapping - of course that might happen naturally if the restroom lines get too long!
Tickets are $35 if purchased online and $40 at the door, if there are tickets still available. There are two sessions and each is being held to a maximum of 1500 tasters. For the list of participating breweries, to purchase tickets or to get all the details, check their site.
The following weekend, March 10 and 11 is the Atlantic City Beer Festival (irritating announcer on that home page…). This festival has two sessions on Saturday and one on Sunday. They expect attendance of 10,000 - not quite as intimate at the Philadelphia event! They currently list 48 participating breweries which run the gamut from big boys like Michelob to smaller guys like Dogfish. There are several countries represented in the line-up.
Advance tickets are $25, while tickets at the door are $30. Plus they have some offers for group ticket prices. Check out all the ticket info here.
