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Come, Taste, Enjoy!

Do you love good beer? So do we!! Martha’s Vineyard + Craft Beer….again? Â Yes, please?!

Announcing the 4th Annual Martha’s Vineyard Craft Beer Festival

Saturday September 21, 2019
Doors Open @ 12:30

Waban Park Oak Bluffs, MA

The Fest!

The Martha’s Vineyard Craft Beer Festival features ~50 Breweries, ~150 Brews, 5 Bands, Fun Games, Local Food & Super Cool Vendors from all over!! All of this fun takes place on the beautiful island of Martha’s Vineyard 3 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The festival venue, Waban Park, is located in Oak Bluffs about ~100ft away from the Atlantic Ocean. This beach side craft beer festival is a rockin’ good time! It’s an island destination brew festival not to be missed!Â Â

The date is special as it is the Official Kick Off Date of International Oktoberfest!! We have chosen this date year after as a tribute to the most famous beer fest on earth to celebrate the history of the worlds most popular brew.

The Brews

This ROCKSTAR Craft Beer Festival features brews from all around. The 150+ brew selection includes island, state, regional and internationally produced brews. Festival attendees will enjoy unlimited tasting of 150 hand craftedÂ beers, ciders, seltzers, wines and more. While the fest is named after it’s flagship brew – Craft Beer, we also offer a wide selection of craft brews including ciders, seltzers, wines & more. We truly have something for everyone to Come, Taste, Enjoy! Each brewery will be pouring a select variety of thier products and attendees will get a chance to talk beer with industry reps.Â

Tasting kicks off @ 1pm for VIP Ticket holders featuring a bounty of some of the rarest & newests brews out there. We carefully curate a collection of super fine brews in limited quantities to pour for our VIP guests. Brews include hard to find breweries, rare brews, brand new brews, brewery only craft beers & one-off brews. This is the creme de la creme of the craft brew world and a dream for the lover of fine brews.

But wait theres plenty more!!!Â @ 2pm we open the tasting stalls for General Admission tickets holders to taste all the amazing brews our breweries have to offer. Gneral Admission tasting includes Unlimited* tasting of a smorgus board of fine hand crafted brews including craft beers in a multitude of categories including IPA, IIPA, Wheat Beers, Sours, Ales, Fiestbiers, Fruit Beers, Lagers, Pilsners and much, much more. The craft beer festival’s selection reflects a solid representation of what shines in today’s beer world. We include brand new brews, industry favs, experimental styles, newer breweries, classic breweries, local brews, international styles and more. It’s hard to wrap up all that the fest includes in one paragraph lol. We highly recommend you come experience it for yourself!! Get your tickets here:

In addition to excellent beers we expand our selection to showcase hand crafted ciders, hard seltzers, wine & some other fun bevs our fest fans are sure to enjoy. As fun as beer is there is a whole world of craft brews out there and we seek to include a little bit of everything!!

Gluten Free? Yup, we got that too! Thanks to our festival sponsor Glutenberg Craft BreweryÂ we have an entire Gluten Free selection of craft brews!!

Wanna know who’s coming??

Click here for a list of our 2019 breweries.

The Music

A proper Festival is not complete with out a ROCKIN’ LIVE MUSIC lineup?! Right?? We sure think so! Soooo we book the best feel good vibes from local musicians we can find.We are SUPER STOKED about this year’s line up!!!Â Check it outttt

Dock Dance Band
THE Island’s most celebrated band for rockin the docks EVERY WEEK all summer long!! These guys are fantasic! Rocking fun songs we know & love in addition to thier own stellar tunes they will rock your socks off! Dance is in the name for a reason!!!

Photo Credit: Jeremy Driesen Click here to view more of Jeremy’s Awesome work

Edbury Allstars
Whoa… so this band is a collective project of some of the Island’s MOST FAMOUS and talented musicians that call Martha’s Vineyard home. It truly is an ALLSTAR cast featuring the likes of Johnny Hoy – the original renound Island Bluesman from Johnny Hoy & The Bluefish, Mike Bejamin – a true SOUL MAN, multi-talented instumentalist & rockin singer he’s a treat to listen to on any occasion, Willy Mason – an international folk star that put the island on the musical map for the many international fans Willy has touched with his extensive touring and award winning albums.

Freevolt
These guys pick up the GOOD VIBRATIONS and bring an amazing New England following from thier feel good tunes and reggae/ska style tunes. They are that get off your feet and feel the beat band. Powerhouse frontman Michael Bernier has dedicated his life to spreading the good vibes to all he enounters and it surely shows when you experience a FREEVOLT show!

Steven Hart
The release of Stephen Harts debut album titled SteveÂ Â SongsÂ Â â€œ The Best of Both Worldâ€ he blends a feeling of Folk ,Rock and Soul into a masterful transformation of musical styles. His music creates an uplifting vibe for the mind, body and spirit. Stephensâ€™s music is played on Guitar and piano and has a feeling of love and compassion and creates a vibration to go to a higher place in the universe. His vocal style is of his own but his main influences are Greg Alman,Bob Marley,Stephen Stills and Tom Petty to name a few. His lyrical content is derived from all of the beautiful romances he has had along the way and his lifeâ€™s experiencesÂ Â for love ,life and nature within.

Mike Martin y Los Rootsticks
This band is an island style classic through & through bringing POSITIVE VIBRATIONS of the Roots, Rock Reggae world to the Festival stage year after year. Mike Martin rocks island near and far, originally from Puerto Rico he has blessed the stage with INTERNATIONAL Reggae SUPERSTARS The Wailers, Jimmy Cliff, Barrington Levy, UB40, Morgan Heritage and many more.

Rosie Guerin Band
Rosie is one of the island’s most popular Queen of the Stage!! This multi-talented ROCKSTAR has spent her ENTIRE LIFE entertaining the masses with her amazing voice and instumental skills. She has spent the majority of her career touring with her internationally renowned duo Vandervelt. When she’s home on the island she is contsantly taking the stage to ROCK the island crowds with some of the island’s BEST musicians. Amazingly versatile Rosie is not to be missed!!

DJ AP
The island’s MOST POPULAR DJ, known for his AMAZING versatility & creative styles DJ AP TURNS IT UP every year at the fest! You never know what he will bring but you can be 1000% sure it’ll be awesome and rock your world!