Washington DC is hosting every year in October a huge beer festival: SnallyGaster! The festival is located close to the Capitol and showcases an Amazing number of breweries with more than 405 beers for the 2022 edition. This is a perfect opportunity to visit DC and enjoy good beers. (Go here to see our post about Washington DC for a weekend)
What to expect:
You should expect a lot of beers! The festival offers 2 types of entry tickets: VIP, and Normal. The VIP pass enables to access the festival at noon. With the normal entry, you will be able to enter few hours after.
At the festival entry, you are provided with a glace, you can then go from brewery to brewery and try the beers they have selected. Each brewery usually proposes two beers. Few breweries can have a long line or can be out of some beers after one or two hours. We have seen that mainly for exclusive stouts, barrel-aged, or wild ale beers.
For food, multiple food trucks are available with different styles of food available (the food is not included in the entry price)
What do we think about SnallyGaster:
If you are a beer lover and want to visit Washington DC then this is the perfect occasion to go. The tickets are a little bit pricey but the event is very cool and you can get a lot of beers. In 2022 we enjoyed a great weather, and everybody was very nice.
Our best beers in 2022:
During the 2022 edition we tried some great barrel-aged and wild beers at some of the breweries with the longest lines. They were delicious. Our favorite breweries from New England were proposing great beers: Widowmaker, Vitamine Sea, Trillium, Equilibrium, Bissell Brothers, Untold, and Mast Landing. We also include Other Half from New York in the top brewery that we already know well. The event was the opportunity to discover great IPAs from other breweries that were new to us: The Answer Vermont, Mikerphone Illinois, Southern Grist Tennessee, Fidens New York, Bluejacket Virginia and many others that we don’t remember the names anymore.
If you want to join in 2023, check the SnallyGaster website. Ticket are on sale few months before the event. Follow SnallyGaster on Instagram for all the news.