Detroit Fall Beer Festival 2026: Nearly 90 Michigan Breweries Pour at Eastern Market Today
BeerAlienThe 17th annual Detroit Fall Beer Festival runs today, Oct. 24, 1-6 p.m. at Eastern Market, with nearly 90 Michigan breweries, 450+ beers and wrestling.
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Blue Point Cask Ales Festival Returns to Patchogue Nov. 7 With 100+ Casks
The Blue Point Cask Ales Festival returns for its 22nd year on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Blue Point Brewpub, 225 West Main St. in Patchogue, New York. Blue Point Brewing Co., a subsidiary of Tilray Brands, announced the date in a press release. Blue Point Cask Ales Festival…
Lowlander Brewing Throws Launch Party as Its Pioneer Square Brewhouse Goes Live
Lowlander Brewing is finally pouring beer it brewed itself. The Seattle beer hall throws a launch party on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, from 5 to 9 p.m. at 419 Occidental Ave. S. in Pioneer Square to celebrate its basement brewhouse going live. Until now, the house recipes were brewed somewhere else. Lowlander Brewing launch party…
San Diego Beer Week 2026 Guide: Dates, Events by Neighborhood & Planning Tips (Nov. 6–15)
San Diego Beer Week 2026 runs Friday, Nov. 6, through Sunday, Nov. 15, at breweries, bars and restaurants across San Diego County, according to the San Diego Brewers Guild’s Beer Week page. The big difference this year: no Guild festival sits inside those 10 days. The humans moved it to September, so San Diego Beer…
Gunner’s Daughter Day Brings 12 Stouts and a 16.2% Bottle to Westbrook
Gunner’s Daughter Day is today, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, and the doors open at noon at Mast Landing Brewing, 920 Main St., Westbrook, Maine. The brewery is pouring 12 versions of its flagship milk stout, Gunner’s Daughter. The one with the loudest signal is Double Barrel Gunner’s Daughter, a 16.2% imperial milk stout that spent…
Culture Brewing FestCoast Oktoberfest Runs Through Oct. 25
Field note from the Bureau’s coastal lager desk: the humans of North County have moved Oktoberfest, and nobody filed the paperwork. Culture Brewing FestCoast is the Solana Beach brewery’s limited-edition fest bier, and its Oktoberfest celebration runs through Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, at all three Culture taprooms. That is well past the German calendar, which…
Sierra Nevada Celebration 2026 Ships for Its 45th Year
Harvest beacon detected out of Chico: Celebration season has entered the atmosphere. Sierra Nevada Celebration 2026, the 45th edition of the brewery’s winter Fresh Hop IPA, has begun shipping, and Earthlings should see it on shelves across the country through the second half of October, according to a Sierra Nevada press release published by New…
Dancing Gnome Turns 10: Anniversary Beers Today, 10 Collabs Saturday
Countdown check, Earthlings: the Dancing Gnome 10th anniversary celebration starts today, Friday, Oct. 9, at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT), when the Sharpsburg brewery near Pittsburgh releases three anniversary beers. Saturday, Oct. 10, brings 10 collaboration beers, including one with Maine’s Bissell Brothers. Here’s the two-day flight plan. The Dancing Gnome 10th anniversary schedule…
Great American Beer Festival 2026 Goes Outdoors at Denver’s Levitt Pavilion
Earthlings, GABF 2026 is heading outside. The Great American Beer Festival, the Brewers Association’s festival and competition, runs Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 10-11, at Levitt Pavilion in Denver’s Ruby Hill Park. It’s the festival’s first time outdoors, after relocating from the Colorado Convention Center. Here’s how to watch the medals, when to show up and…
San Diego Metal Swap Meet 2026: Earthlings Prepare for Craft Brews, Vinyl and Heavy Metal
RaymondAs part of our ongoing cultural research into Earth’s most intense liquid and auditory traditions, the Beer Alien Journalistic Bureau has turned its observational sensors toward Southern California. Our telemetry has identified a major gathering of human metalheads and craft beer enthusiasts scheduled to land in San Diego this fall. The San Diego Metal Swap…
Stone Brewing 30th Anniversary: San Diego Craft Beer Festival 2026
San Diego craft beer lovers, unite! The crown jewel of Southern California’s craft beer scene is back and bigger than ever. On Saturday, September 12, 2026, Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station will host the official Stone Brewing 30th Anniversary celebration, marking three decades of groundbreaking brews, iconic West Coast IPAs, and…
Vail Craft Beer Classic 2026 Returns To Colorado in June. Tickets On Sale
Greetings, Earthlings. Your BeerAlien correspondent has detected a significant gathering of fermented beverages in the Rocky Mountains. Team Player Productions has announced the return of the Vail Craft Beer Classic, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary on June 12–13, 2026, in Vail Village. This highly anticipated Colorado craft beer festival will once again showcase more…
Denver Brewery Signals 11 Revolutions Around The Sun
On this blue-green planet known as Earth, in a creative outpost called Denver, a fermentation lab named Ratio Beerworks has reached what humans call its “11th anniversary.” From our intergalactic vantage point, this is not merely a birthday. It is an amplification. A volume knob turned to 11. Growth Patterns Detected As Ratio enters Year…
BeerAlien Observes the Return of Colorado Pint Day 👽
BeerAlien reporting in from the State of Craft Beer, where humans have once again aligned their calendars around a sacred object: the pint glass. The Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG) has confirmed the return of Colorado Pint Day on Wednesday, April 29, an annual event that sends beer lovers across the state lining up at participating…
Great American Beer Festival Goes Outdoors for the First Time in 2026
For the first time in its storied history, the Great American Beer Festival® (GABF®) is heading outside. The nation’s most iconic craft beer celebration will move to an open-air setting on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11, 2026, relocating from the Colorado Convention Center to Denver’s Levitt Pavilion. The move marks a bold new…