Activities


**NEW This Year! Beer Education **

Pedal Pub food & beer pairing seminars & historic Grain Belt site tours! Space is limited for all seminars and tours. All educational events last approx. 30 minutes.

Only 1 of each type of tour/seminar allowed per attendee in order to keep spots open for others to enjoy

Sign-up by visiting the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild Information Booth at the festival.


The Pedal Pub

Look out for the Pedal Pub – a 16 passenger moving bar – www.pedalpub.com - will be making some fun special runs at no cost from parking areas to the festival entrance this year!


Pedal Pub Food & Beer Pairing Seminars

Join a brewer and a foodie as they present/demonstrate great food & beer pairings on the moving Pedal Pub – not your mommas’ schoolin’!

Seminar Times:  2p  |  2:45p  |  3:30p  |  4:15p  |  5p

Chefs / Foodies & Brewer pairings for these seminars will be announced soon!

Cost:  $5


Historic Grain Belt Site Tours

Join Doug Hoverson, Minnesota brewery historian and author of the popular book Land of Amber Waters, for a tour of the grounds of the Grain Belt brewery.  The brewery was a center of neighborhood activity and excitement for nearly a century.  In addition to learning about the brewing process and brewery architecture, you'll have a chance to stand where a violent strike occurred, see where a massive fire just missed the brewery and hear about an armed robbery by Chicago gangsters.

Tour Times:  1:30p  |  2:30p  |  3:30p  |  4:30p

Cost:  Free!