Bellingham is one of the Northwest’s premier beer destinations, home to 15 craft breweries. The annual April Brews Day festival is the city’s original and largest celebration of craft beer. Not just Bellingham-brewed beers, but beers from breweries across the region.
HIGHLIGHTS of April Brews Day…
- Happens on Saturday, April 27th
- Is one of the largest beer festivals in the state of Washington
- Will welcome over 4,000 festivalgoers
- Features beers from over 60 local craft breweries
- Features live music throughout the day
- Benefits a great organization
- Is entirely focused on craft beer
- Is the final event of, a crescendo to, Bellingham Beer Week
Not only is it one of the biggest beer festivals in the state, but it is also one of the longest-running, dating back to 2001. That is when Max Higbee Center realized a need for funding and came up with the idea of organizing Bellingham’s first craft beer festival. To help make it happen, the organization partnered with the city’s only brewery, Boundary Bay Brewery. Since then, the event has grown, just as the craft beer scene in Bellingham has grown.
For years, the event took place right across the street from Boundary Bay’s location on Railroad Avenue, but now April Brews Day has moved down the street to the city’s newly reinvented waterfront, at Waypoint Park. This is the same location where Kulshan Brewing operates its seasonal beer garden during the summer, but April Brews Day takes over the whole thing.
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Tickets and other info:
- Your general admission ticket to April Brews Day ($50) gets you in the door with 8 drink tickets and a commemorative April Brews Day 2024 tasting cup.
- The VIP package ($75) gets you in the door 90 minutes early with ten drink tickets and a tasting cup.
- More tasting tickets are easily available at the ticket booth and from roving ticket sellers.
- April Brews Day is a 21-plus event. No dogs allowed. No outside food, since food will be available at the event, but you are welcome to bring an empty water bottle and fill it at the filling station.
- Get tickets here.
We are proud to have April Brews Day as a sponsor of the Washington Beer Blog and are happy to help them promote this great event. Proceeds from April Brews Day benefit Max Higbee Center, a grassroots organization founded by educators and families of people with developmental disabilities who wanted quality recreation opportunities in Whatcom County. Max Higbee, a professor at Western Washington University, spearheaded the movement. The Drop-In Center gained status as a non-profit organization in 1984. That is when the center was named to honor its founder.
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