Colorado Brewers Festival In Fort Collins Colorado

The Colorado Brewer's Festival is held every year in late June
The  Colorado's brewers festival is almost twenty years old as an annual event. In the past it has been held in Old Town Square in downtown Ft Collins. Over 300 kegs and much food is served every year.  The festival runs from 11:00am--6:00pm on both Saturday and Sunday.   Old Town Square is fenced of and there are usually gates located in two or three locations. You must be 21 years old to be a beer sampler. Admission is $10 for both days and $6 for a Sunday pass.

The Colorado Brewers' Fest is made up solely of Colorado Breweries, including the host breweries from Fort Collins: Anheuser-Busch, Big Horn Brewery/CB & Potts, Coopersmith's Pub & Brewing, New Belgium Brewing Co., Fort Collins Brewery, and Odell's Brewing.

The weather is usually fair this time of year with temperatures in the eighty's. Always be prepared for rain showers especially in the afternoons.

The festival is a very crowded affair and can be shoulder to shoulder at times. Even though a great deal of beer is served many of the participants come to hear the music that is offered at the central band stand in the square. At times the festival can get boisterous but on the whole most peopel are well behaved and show up to have a good time.

The point of the festival has always been to allow the Fort Collins Brewers to show off their brands but especially to allow the public to try their new beer ideas. The Fort Collins brewers are craft brewers and as such are a very creative group of brew masters. Every year there are new offerings

If you are a beer aficionado then this is where you want to be on the last weekend in June. You might find a beer with raspberry flavor or one with a strong honey flavor. Europe is a large influence with the local brew masters and brewery owners. They have taken many trips to the land of the brew miesters to bring back ideas and new brew tastes. This festival was originally started to be a  samplers paradise.

Originally the brewers used to explain about their beer and what went into the brewing process but that tradition has fallen by the wayside. It is to bad too because that was the real fun of the festival was to find out what went into the creation. The story is it became to cumbersome and has now turned into a old fashioned German beer festival of drinking eating and music with a good time thrown in for free.

Much if not all the music is from local bands and you can see and hear many different types of music.

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