Ready to raise a toast (or several) to America’s finest firefighters at the OC Brew Ha Ha? Enjoy as many 4 oz tastings as you want in your commemorative glass (10 are included, extras available for purchase) at this outdoor event with over 60 breweries offering their suds!
Parking is free, water is free, soda is free, and they’re even offering “beer appreciation seminars” (you’re not worthy!).
The location will be the beautiful Hidden Valley Private Park, located at 8800 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92618. (Where the 5 & the 405 meet – Between Verizon Amphitheater & Wild Rivers) Designated Driver tickets are just $10 (Must be accompanying a GA or VIP guest. This ticket does not allow access to seminars.)
All of your hard earned dough goes to a good cause- Fire Fighters Relief Fund (appropriately, this event is just one day before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, a day firefighters gave a sacrifice much greater than the cost of this fun event).
The Inland Empire breweries will include
- Main Street Brewery – Corona
- Taps Brewery – Corona
- Inland Empire Brewing Co – Riverside
- Hangar 24 Craft Brewery – Redlands
- Dale Bros. Brewery – Upland
- Black Market Brewing Co – Temecula
- Big Cheese Pizza & Brewery – Riverside
- Craft Brewing Company – Lake Elisnore
The event will be held from Nooon to 3:00 p.m. Our advice is to show up early, as breweries sometimes run out of the good stuff and often develop lines as the crowds arrive.
- Tickets are $40, though you can sneak in at 11 a.m. with the VIP crowd for just $55. VIP also includes four extra tastes and VIP exclusive seminar by renowned beer expert Dr. Bill of Stone Brewing with specially selected rare beer. (like we said, you’re not worthy of calling yourself a beer expert until you learn from the greats!
Find more information online at ocbrewfest.com.
The rest of the breweries are below (some of which we’ve never heard of, some of which are incredible regional and national breweries) just to whet your beer appetite!
- Old Orange Brewing Co
- Karl Strauss Brewing Company
- Breakwater Brewing Co
- Iron Fist
- Russian River
- Maui Brewing Co
- Lost Coast Brewing
- Goose Island Brewing Co
- Belmont Brewing Co
- Beachwood BBQ Brewing
- Anchor Brewery
- Alexander Keith’s Brewery
- Widmer Brothers
- Tustin Brewing Co.
- Stone Brewing Company
- Steelhead Brewing Co.
- Stadium Brewing Co
- SkyScraper Brewing Co
- Sierra Nevada
- Samuel Adams
- Rock Bottom Breweries
- Pyramid Breweries
- Blue Moon
- Port San Clemente
- Port Brewing Company
- Oggis Pizza & Brewing
- North Coast Brewing
- Noble Ale Works Brewery
- Newport Beach Brewing Co
- New Belgium
- Mission Brewery
- Michelob
- Mammoth Brewing Company
- Magic Hat Brewing Co
- Left Coast Brewing Co
- Kona Brewing Co
- Jt Schmid’s Brewery
- Honey Brown Lager
- Haven
- Green Flash
- Firestone Beer
- Fireman’s Brew
- Eel River Brewing Co
- Crispin Cider
- Cismontane Brewing Company
- The Bruery
- Bootleggers Brewery
- BJ Chicago Brewhouse
- Bayhawk Ales
- Ballast Point
- Backstreet Brewery
- Anderson Valley Brewing
- Alcatraz Brewing Company
