
Do you love beer and feeling festive? Then look no further than Mad Anthony's annual Oktobeerfest! Taste over 100 Indiana beers poured by the brewers that crafted them during this 4-day event, culminating in the main OktoBEERfest at Headwaters Park West. Spend an afternoon with over 30 regional craft brewers serving their brews while enjoying other festivities throughout the festival.
OktoBEERfest includes four days of events leading up to the big festival, kicking off on Wednesday, September 4 and going through Saturday, September 7. The OktoBEERfest events are as follows:
Wednesday September 4:
Indiana Craft Beers & Hors D'oeuvres
Old Crown Coffee Roasters
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Tickets: $20 available at Old Crown
Thursday September 5:
Vintage Ale Release Party
Mad Anthony Lakeview Ale House
Angola, Indiana
Friday September 6:
Golf Scramble, with BBQ Dinner
Bridgewater Golf Club
Auburn, Indiana
Registration due by September 2nd.
OK! Live Music
Mad Anthony Brewing Company
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Saturday September 7:
Beers & Bikes Pub Tour
11am-2pm
Starting at Hall's Gas House and ending at Headwater's Park West
Registration: 10am-11am, $10 per rider
OktoBEERfest
2-6 pm
Headwater's Park West
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Featured craft brewers include some of the following:
Fountain Square
Flat 12 Bierwerks
Rock Bottom Brewery
Bloomington Brewing Co
Shureline Brewery
Crown Brewing
Lafayette Brewing
Tin Many Brewing Co
New Albanian Brewing Co
Union Brewing
Even Czech Brewery
Granite City
Half Moon Restaurant & Brewery
Mad Anthony
Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 day of event and include unlimited tasting and a souvenir glass. An OktoBEERfest ticket + bike tour ticket is $40 and includes a t-shirt. If you want to enjoy the festivities with your friends, but don't want to drink, designated driver tickets can be purchased for $10. As an added bonus for those wanting to come up from out of town, the Mad Anthony's location in Warsaw, Indiana will have a shuttle up to Fort Wayne for $15 (learn more
here).
For more information go to
Visit Fort Wayne, visit the OktoBEERfest
website, or visit the Mad Anthony
Facebook page.