Overview
Beer lovers of Brisbane, the drinking equivalent of Christmas is just around the corner. While the festive season delivers plenty of reasons for a tipple, Brewsvegas serves up ten whole days dedicated to little more than enjoying the nectar of the gods: beer. It's no wonder the festival has become one of the city's must-attend events since it first started in 2014.
Indeed, the 2017 program boasts an array of experiences that'll prove just why that's the case — and make you thirsty just reading about them. Here, from March 10 to 19 at almost every Brissie pub, bar and place with beer in the fridge, a hard-earned thirst needs whatever type of bev is on the menu. That includes blending your own brews, trying duelling ales, tasting one-off concoctions, and swapping beer for cider and mead. There are many, many other excuses chances to grab a glass of something, or several — such as beer-flavoured ice cream, for example.
Other highlights from the lineup span everything from the exact type of pub crawl we predicted last year (even if the Milton watering holes in question are calling it a beer trail), to every type of booze-appropriate sport or activity you can think of (putt putt, golf, a scavenger hunt, BASEketball, NES, a cartoon drawing competition, bowls, Japanese game shows, trivia, RPGs, live painting, beerlympics, an art tour and a chilli cook-off, just to name a few). For anyone worrying about lining their stomach, food also features heavily. Degustation, pizza pairings, oh-so-much poultry, a curated food lab, brekkie boozing and root-to-leaf antics are all on the menu.
And then there's something from the state-proud drink-lover in all of us: the festival within a festival that is Pint of Origin. Seven pubs each showcase the beer of seven different states and territories, experts chat, everyone drinks — and, just like at Brewsvegas in general, everyone imbibing and indulging all prove the real winners.
Brewsvegas 2017 runs from March 10 to 19. For more information, visit the festival's website.