Breckenridge Beer Festival is Saturday

BRECKENRIDGE — KSMT “The Mountain” will present the Breckenridge Beer Festival on Saturday, at Main Street Station in Breckenridge. The event will provide locals and visitors with live entertainment and 22 microbrews.

The Breckenridge Beer Festival will feature free live music on the “Summit Stage” Stage. Whitewater Ramble takes the stage at 12:30 p.m., followed by local favorites, the Universally Famous Rocket Surgeons from 2-3:30 p.m. The New Mastersounds will wrap up the event from 4-6 p.m.

The unlimited beer tasting will take place from 2-6 p.m. The cost of a bottomless six-ounce mug is $30, or upscale to the Comcast VIP treatment with a large 13-ounce commemorative glass stein, along with exclusive early entry to the Breckenridge Beer Festival at 12:30 p.m., private beer tasting with the brewers, stage view seats on Taddeo’s patio and Breckenridge Beer Festival T-shirt.

VIPs also could win a weekend in Aspen at the Mountain House Lodge with tickets to a show at the Belly Up, access to a bathroom, and catered lunch and snacks for $75 in advance and $85 at the door. There are only 200 VIP mugs available.

This year’s brewer lineup will include the Breckenridge Brewery, Alaskan Brewing Company, Aspen Brewing Company, Avery Brewing Company, Backcountry Brewery, Boston Beer Company, Bristol Brewery, Flying Dog Brewery, Great Divide Brewing Company, Grand Teton Brewing Company, Kona, Left Hand Brewery, New Belgium Brewery, Odell Brewing Company, Oskar Blues Brewery, Palisade Brewery, Paulaner, Pilsner Urquell, Pug Ryan’s, Ska Brewing Company, Stone Brewing Company and Wolf Rock Brewing Company.

The Breckenridge Beer Festival is a benefit for the Breckenridge Mountain Rotary and the Breckenridge Festival of Film. This is a no pet event. For more information about the Breckenridge Massive Beer Festival, visit www.breckenridgebeerfestival.com.