One unifying unit successful our brewing scenery is the state’s largest recurring brew gathering, the Great Vegas Festival of Beer. On March 28, the 14th yearly lawsuit volition assemble astir 20 section and Nevada breweries and 60 total—everything from Lazy Dog, Brewdog and Big Dog’s to Hop Nuts, Triple 7 and Lovelady—under a shared banner astatine a 200,000-square-foot abstraction adjacent 6th Street and Carson Avenue.
Back erstwhile laminitis Brian Chapin launched the inaugural lawsuit nether the Motley Brews marque successful 2011, the Valley was location to conscionable fractional a twelve breweries. Today, it’s person to 2 dozen.
“I saw a niche for not lone trade beer—because it was astatine its infancy and starting to germinate successful surrounding states—but besides to effort and bring the assemblage unneurotic arsenic locals,” Chapin says. “It was neat, due to the fact that it genuinely was friends who hadn’t seen each different successful years getting together. It was breweries who hadn’t had a accidental to scope section Las Vegans yet.”
Great Vegas has served arsenic a showcase for the state’s ever-expanding roster of breweries ever since, and it’s moving to a caller but acquainted determination this twelvemonth aft spending astir of the past decennary astatine the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center. It volition alternatively instrumentality to Fremont East, wherever it was antecedently held successful 2014.
And don’t hide the lineup of nutrient vendors, which this twelvemonth includes Fast Eddie’s Burgers, Di Sab’s Mangia Mobile, the Glazed Nut Hut, Sharp BBQ, Golden Oven Pizza and more.
“It’s gone mode farther from an offering and prime standpoint than I thought it ever would,” Chapin says. “We’re known arsenic an amusement and work city, and these are products that radical tin sensation and touch. The festival leans profoundly into that.”
GREAT VEGAS FESTIVAL OF BEER March 28, 3 p.m., $55-$135. Downtown Las Vegas, greatvegasbeer.com.
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