PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Food and Drink Lovers Rejoice! Melbourne Beerfest at Catani Gardens is Set to Deliver the Largest Line up to Date – Saturday 26 February

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Food and Drink Lovers Rejoice! Melbourne Beerfest at Catani Gardens is Set to Deliver the Largest Line up to Date – Saturday 26 February

Exciting times are Brewing as a super-sized Melbourne Beerfest hits Catani Gardens St. Kilda next Saturday 26 February.

The iconic annual festival, presented by Little Creatures, is one of the largest meeting places of Australian producers and features over 350 unique, exotic, and small batch craft beers, ciders and cocktails over two jam-packed sessions, guaranteeing twice the fun and offerings throughout the day. All complemented by the very best in gourmet, local street food.

The good times will keep getting better with multiple large scale activations featuring tastings, interactive activities and games and large-scale beer gardens including:

● The Better Beer backyard – brought to you by the team behind The Inspired Unemployed where patrons can go for a zero carb, zero sugar, low cal frothy and a game of totem tennis under the Hills Hoist!
● Glenfiddich Whisky Wanderer bus and beer garden hosting intimate whisky and boiler making sessions
● Little Creatures container bar, beer garden and fun zone.
● The giant orange Monkey Mixer Truck and beer garden mixing it up with some playful twists on your favourite cocktails and hosting some fun games and activities

The day session will run from 11-3:30pm and evening session festivities will kick off at 5pm. Each session will have limited capacity, offering more space on site to ensure a totally COVID safe environment for all.

Tickets for each session will include FREE entertainment including live music with headliner Jolyon Petch, live comedy featuring household names such as Nick Cody and Harley Breen; beer bingo, cocktail making and tasting sessions, brewer forums, roaming performers and more.

At Beerfest festivals patrons are taken on the ultimate journey of craft beer and food discovery; exploring rare and exclusive festival brews, ciders and one-of-a-kind cocktails, complimented perfectly by the best in local street food.

“Our goal is to create the best possible environment for our producers to showcase their brews and brands.”

Now more than ever, it’s critical to support locals! “Our amazing local producers hail from all over Victoria and their exceptional and innovative food and drink offerings are definitely the hero of the festival!”. “It’s why people come from all over Australia. Everything else is there to complement them and keep everyone completely entertained across the weekend.”

From pilsners to porters, seltzers to sours, bourbons and boilermakers or Ginger Monkeys to Melbourne Mules, Beerfest festival goers can expect the best of everything at Melbourne Beerfest!

EVENT DETAILS

Melbourne Beerfest | 26 February| Catani Gardens St. Kilda | Day Session 11-3:30| Evening Session 5-9:30
Very limited tickets available| Both sessions Include access to event and all entertainment |Beer, food and other drinks available for purchase
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WHAT’S ON OFFER:
DRINK
Monkey Shoulder, Better Beer + NoSh, Brewmanity Beer Co, Ginger Kid & Mango, Smash, Hawkers Beer, KAIJU! Beer, Co-Conspirators Brewing Company, Molly Rose Brewing, Ballistic Beer Company, Mountain Culture Beer Co, Local Brewing Co, Colonial Brewing Co, Bridge Road Brewers, Henry St Brewhouse, Hop Nation | Ray Hard Seltzer, Dainton Beer, Stomping Ground Brewing Co, Bright Brewery, Bad Shepherd Brewing Co, Westside Ale Works & IDA Pruul, Archie Rose Distilling Co., Fury and Son Brewing Co, Gage Roads Brew Co, Atomic Beer Project, White Rabbit, Little Creatures, Matilda Bay, Brick Lane Brewing, Fixation Brewing Co,
Two Birds Brewing, Jetty Road Brewery, Tin Shed Cider, Glenfiddich Whisky Wanderer, Urban Alley Brewery, Coldstream Beer & Cider, Burnley Brewing, Braeside Brewing Co, BentSpoke Brewing Co, Wolf of the Willows | Aqua Boogie Hard Seltzer, Brix Rum Distillers, Frexi Brewing, Temple Brewing Co., Hard Road Brewery, Tallboy and Moose, Killer Sprocket, Inner North Brewing Co, The Prosecco Van,

FOOD
Q Barbeque, Wildfire Pizzeria, Bavarian Bangers, Mr fresh Truck Ice Cream, Street Eats, Opa Greek Street Food, Dingo Ate My Taco, FATV Jerky, Loaded, The Dolly Bus, The Happy Mexican, Mr Fresh Truck

FREE ENTERTAINMENT (Full Line Up Available)
BAD SHEPHERD MAIN STAGE LIVE MUSIC
Jolyon Petch (“Holding On” and “Dreams”)
Vetta Borne ( “Girls,” “Hey,” and “Beyonce,”)
Shannen James (“Fashionably Late” feat Paul Dempsey, “Superstitious”)
Modern Opera (“You said that last Time”, “I Want”)

BREWMANITY COMEDY STAGE FEATURING
Nick Cody (CONAN, OXFAM Gala, Have You Been Paying Attention, Hughesy We Have a Problem)
Bev Killick (It’s A Date, Kath and Kim, Jack Irish, Drunk History, Kinne Tonight)
Harley Breen (Making It Australia, Hughesy, We Have A Problem, The Project, Allstars Gala)
Ben Lomas (The Comedy Channel, Comedy Up Late, Fitbet podcast, The Little Dum Dum Club podcast)
Masterclasses, brewer forums, cocktail-making sessions and beer bingo and trivia at the Cryer Malt Brewers Stage

INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Monkey Shoulder Giant Mixer, Better Beer Backyard, Little Creatures Fun Zone, Glenfiddich Whisky Wanderer
For Melbourne Beerfest media requests please contact: Stacy File 0410539991 or [email protected]
beerfestivals.com.au | @beerfestau | BeerfestAUS |
COVID SAFETY- This will be our 10th COVID Safe including Melbourne Beerfest 2021. The Melbourne Beerfest event site will offer ample space to allow for increased physical distancing requirements that comply with current restrictions and still deliver the same full-bodied Beerfest experience.
For the safety of patrons and participants, festival organisers will be implementing focused and extreme measures to ensure total compliance with all relevant and recommended current government directions, restrictions and protocols including vaccination requirements