While Colorado beer festival season has technically already well underway, this past weekend officially marked the grand return to summer beer fest season in the Centennial State with a pair of heavy hitters in Odell’s Small Batch Fest and the Creekside Beer Fest.

With many large-scale events opting to take a hiatus over the past two years as a result of the pandemic, this year’s beer fest looks a little bit different with some fresh new concepts, the return of a classic fest, as well as the return of several fan favorites. To help you navigate the multitude of festivals, brewery anniversaries, and more happening around Colorado this summer, we’ve, once again, compiled your comprehensive Colorado Beer Festival Tracker. This year’s research was aided by the Facebook Group: Craft Brews &. Mountain Views: Ultimate Resource to Colorado Beer Events. Be sure to give them a follow AND bookmark this page as we’ll continue to update our list throughout the rest of the year.

Beers Made By Walking

One of the country’s more unique festival concepts, which invites brewers to produce beers using foraged ingredients that can be found on hikes or urban hikes, returns to Colorado after a five year hiatus. BMBW returns to Colorado Springs, the city where the event was first launched, on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Since its initial debut, the roaming beer fest has also found an audience in Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, Portland, OR and many more, and in total has worked with over 100 breweries on beers featuring foraged ingredients.

Where: GOCA Downtown – 121 S. Tejon St., #100, Colorado Springs
When: Saturday, June 4 from 2-4:30pm followed by a photography pop-up documenting the event’s 10 year history
Tickets: $25 plus fees: Available Here

Vail Craft Beer Classic

One of the most amazing things about attending a beer festival in the mountains is that you typically get to enjoy incredible beers set to an even more breathtaking backdrop. There might be no more magical summer beer fest than the Vail Craft Beer Classic, which returns June 17 & 18 with over 30 world class breweries and beverage producers available to sample across two sessions. What’s even more fantastic about attending a fest like this is the opportunity to sample from incredible mountain breweries, that don’t always make it down to the Front Range. Use promo code: PORCH to get 10% off your ticket price.

Where: Ford Sculpture Garden Park – 522 S Frontage Rd E, Vail
When: Friday, June 17 from 4-7pm – Saturday, June 18 from 12-2:30 & 3:30-6pm
Tickets: $59 plus fees: Available Here

Big Queer Beer Fest

Betsy Lay of Lady Justice Brewing and Kelissa Heiber of Goldspot Brewing represent a rare few solo, queer, women brewer-owned breweries in the country. And they’ve lead the charge here in Colorado to help provide greater representation and opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community. Their brainchild, the Big Queer Beer Festival, returns for its second year, this time featuring 35+ breweries who will be selling beer to raise funds for Colorado’s LGBTQIA+ community. Last year’s event raised over $6000 and this year’s is sure to be an even greater success.

Where: Town Hall Collaborative – 525 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
When: Saturday, June 18 from 12-5pm
Tickets: Free to attend but beer tokens are one for $3, ten for $25, or guests can opt to purchase the VIP package which includes unlimited drink tokens and a t-shirt or tank top of the participants’ choice for $80. 20% of beer sales will go toward LGBTQIA+-supportive nonprofits

2022 WeldWerks Invitational Festival

For beer geeks, this fest is the absolute zenith. Featuring some of the premier hype beer producers from across the country, the WeldWerks Invitational Festival makes its grand return after a two-year hiatus. This year’s event will feature over 120 beers from 47 world-class breweries predominantly focused on barrel-aged beers including the likes of Side Project, Forager, Moksa, Green Cheek, Phase Three, Amalgam, Jester King, Russian River, and many more!

Where: DoubleTree by Hilton Downtown Greeley – 919 7th Street, Greeley
When: Saturday, June 25 – Afternoon session from 11am – 2pm Evening session from 4pm – 7pm
Tickets: $110 plus fees: Available Here

Brewers Rendezvous

As beer festivals have grown to become a dime a dozen over the past ten years, it becomes rarer and rarer to find fests where brewers and brewery owners all clamor to actually attend and represent their establishments in person. That’s not the case with the Brewers Rendezvous, which has become an industry tradition as a destination festival in one of the most stunning regions of the state. Now in its 26th year, the Brewers Rendezvous, organized by the Colorado Brewers Guild is one of the most competitive festivals to participate in as a brewery with 60 spots available and most of the state’s breweries jockeying for a spot at the fest. This year’s event will feature a Pre-Vous event on Friday night before the main festival featuring unlimited tastings from beers exclusive to that night only from 6-8:30pm with appetizers included.

Where: Riverside Park – 110 Sackett Ave. Salida
When: Saturday, July 9 – From 1-5pm
Tickets: Friday Pre-Vous – $60, General Admission – $55, VIP – $120: Available Here

Hooplagers: Lager-Exclusive Pool Party Beer Festival

If you were to dream up your ideal over-the-top summer beer festival it’d likely include sipping on a full lineup of incredible lagers while lounging in a pool on an inflatable flamingo. Luckily the folks at Wibby Brewing dreamed up that exact scenario a few years back and have blown the concept out into one of the coolest summer beer fests in the country. Transforming their sprawling space into a massive pool party with giant inflatables and a sandy beach, the Wibby team, who are no strangers to producing world-class lagers themselves have been able to curate an incredible lineup of lager producers from around the country.

Where: Wibby Brewing – 209 Emery Street, Longmont
When: Saturday, July 16 – From Noon – 6pm
Tickets: Early Bird Pricing $40: Available Here

Date	Event	Location
June 1, 2022	Denver Beer Co Pride Party	Denver Beer Co Platte St (Denver)
June 2, 2022	Goldengrass Bluegrass Weekend	New Terrain Brewing (Golden)
June 4, 2022	Beers Made by Walking	GOCA Downtown, Plaza of the Rockies (Colorado Springs)
June 4, 2022	Cabin Creek Brewing Two Year Anniversary	Cabin Creek Brewing (Georgetown)
June 4, 2022	Sloan's Lake Beer Fest Y2K Party	1611 Raleigh St (Denver)
June 4, 2022	Highlands Ranch Beer Festival	Civic Green Park (Highlands Ranch)
June 4, 2022	Wellington Brewfest	3815 Harrison Avenue (Denver)
June 3-5, 2022	Spice Trade (Greenwood Village) Two Year Anniversary	Spice Trade Brewing (Greenwood Village)
June 4, 2022	Copper Kettle Brewing 11 Year Anniversary	Copper Kettle Brewing
June 4, 2022	Pride & Love	Burns Family Artisan Ales (Denver)
June 6-11, 2022	Ursula Brewing 8th Anniversary	Ursula Brewing
June 9, 2022	Burns' Fest of Lupulin Love	Burns Family Artisan Ales (Denver)
June 10, 2022	Platt Park Brewing 8th Anniversary	Platt Park Brewing (Denver)
June 11, 2022	Lake Dillon Beer Festival	Dillon Amphitheater (Dillon)
June 17-18, 2022	Vail Craft Beer Classic	Ford Sculpture Garden Park (Vail)
June 18, 2022	Big Queer Beer Festival from Goldspot Brewing & Lady Justice Brewing	Town Hall Collaborative (Denver)
June 18, 2022	Hogshead Cask Fest	Hogshead Brewery (Denver)
June 18, 2022	Arvada On Tap	Ralston Recreation Area (Arvada)
June 18, 2022	Denver Brewsology	History Colorado (Denver)
June 18, 2022	BrewHaHa Beer Fest	ARISTA Broomfield (Broomfield)
June 18, 2022	Bootstrap Brewing 10th Anniversary	Bootstrap Brewing (Longmont)
June 23 - 26, 2022	Great Divide Brewing's 28th Anniversary Weekend	Great Divide Brewing (Both Locations in Denver)
June 24-26, 2022	Downhill Brewing's 5th Anniversary Party	Downhill Brewing (Parker)
June 25, 2022	2022 WeldWerks Invitational Festival	Doubletree by Hilton Greeley
June 25, 2022	TRVE Brewing 10th Anniversary	Gothic Theater, (Englewood)
June 25, 2022	Call to Arms Brewing Pride Fest	Call to Arms Brewing (Denver)
June 25, 2022	Belgian Brew Fest	Bruz Beers (Midtown Denver)
June 25, 2022	The Big Wonderful Summer Beer Fest	Winter Park
June 25, 2022	Hops Drops Evergreen Music and Beer Festival	Buchanan Park (Evergreen)
June 25, 2022	Summertime Brew Vibes	Uhl's Brewing (Boulder)
June 25, 2022	Reds Whites and Brews in the Boat	Downtown Steamboat Springs
June 25, 2022	Ohm Brewing's 3rd Anniversary	Ohm Brewing (Golden)
July 2, 2022	Field of Drinks Brew Festival	Metcalfe Park (Fountain)
July 9, 2022	Brewers Rendezvous	Riverside Park (Salida)
July 9, 2022	Blues and Brews Crawl	Downtown Windsor (Windsor)
July 9, 2022	Homemade Homegrown Homebrew Contest	Alice Pleasant Park (Craig)
July 9, 2022	Baere Brewing's 8th Anniversary Party	Baere Brewing (Denver)
July 15, 2022	Joyride Brewing 8th Anniversary	Joyride Brewing (Denver)
July 15-17, 2022	Luki Brewing 2nd Anniversary	Luki Brewing (Arvada)
July 15-17, 2022	Wild Provisions Beer Project 2nd Anniversary	Wild Provisions Beer Project (Boulder)
July 16, 2022	Hooplagers: Lager-Exclusive Pool Party Beer Festival	Wibby Brewing
July 16, 2022	Leftapalooza	1245 Boston Ave (Longmont)
July 21-24, 2022	Launch Pad Brewery's 7th Anniversary	Launch Pad Brewery (Aurora)
July 23, 2022	Call to Arms Brewing's 7th Anniversary	Call to Arms Brewing (Denver)
July 23, 2022	Grimm Brothers Brewhouse's 12th Anniversary	Grimm Brothers Brewhouse (Loveland)
July 23, 2022	Denver Summer Brew Fest	Mile High Station (Denver)
July 23, 2022	Kokopelli SummerBlock Party	Kokopelli Brewing (Westminster)
July 23, 2022	South Downing Block Party Presented by Denver Beer Co	Denver Beer Co South Downing (Denver)
July 28, 2022	The Big Eat	Denver Performing Arts Complex (Denver)
July 30, 2022	Dos Luces Brewery's 4th Anniversary	Dos Luces Brewery (Denver)
July 30, 2022	Westy Craft Brew Fest	Westminster City Park (Westminster)
July 30, 2022	Lee Hill Block Party Presented by Upslope Brewing	Upslope Brewing Lee Hill Location (Boulder)
July 30, 2022	Lakewood Brewery Collective Block Party	Green Mountain Beer Company (Lakewood)
August 4, 2022	Denver Burger Battle	Auraria Campus (Denver)
August 6, 2022	NoCo Brew Fest	Island Grove Regional Park (Greeley)
August 6-7, 2022	Keystone Bluegrass & Beer Festival	Keystone Resort (Keystone)
August 6, 2022	Hops in the Hangar	Wings of the Rockies Air & Space Museum (Denver)
August 8, 2022	Day of Dorks	Wynkoop Brewing (Denver)
August 13, 2022	Parker Brewfest	O'Brien Memorial Park (Parker)
August 13, 2022	IPA Bash 2022 Presented by Verboten Brewing	Verboten Brewing (Loveland)
August 13, 2022	RiNo Beer Fest	Zeppelin Station (Denver)
August 14, 2022	Hillside Beer Adventure	Hillside Gardens (Colorado Springs)
August 26-27, 2022	San Juan Brewfest	Buckley Park (Durango)
September 3, 2022	Ska Brewing 27th Anniversary Brewer's Invitational	Ska Brewing (Durango)
September 3, 2022	Tour de Fat Fort Collins Presented by New Belgium Brewing	New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins)
September 3, 2022	7th Annual Bears Brews and Bites	Nottingham Field (Greeley)
September 10, 2022	Colorado Parks & Wildlife on Tap Libations Festival	Chatfield State Park
September 15, 2022	Telluride Blues and Brew	Tellurdie Town Park (Telluride)
September 16, 2022	Vail Oktoberfest	Vail Village (Vail)
September 17, 2022	ThirstyFest	Stanley Marketplace (Central Park)
September 17, 2022	Big Can Jam	Zuma's Rescue Ranch (Littleton)
September 24, 2022	2022 Craft Beer & Wine Festival	The Orchard Town Center (Westminster)
September 24, 2022	Heritage Brew Festival	Soda Springs Park (Manitou Springs)
October 6-8, 2022	Great American Beer Festival	Colorado Convention Center
October 8, 2022	Pumpkins & Pilsners	Bond Park (Estes Park)
December 2-3, 2022	Metal & Beer Fest from TRVE Brewing	Summit Music Hall (Denver)

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