Real-ly Local Ale Festival

Really Local. Really Craft. Really Good Ale.

The Real-ly Local Ale Festival brings together over a dozen of your favorite local breweries serving limited edition Real Ales. On Saturday, October 26th from 1-4pm join us at Eckington Place for an outdoor festival in support of your local craft beer industry. Enjoy unlimited tastes and purchase bites from local food makers, participate in beer trivia, and learn about the brewing process. There will also be a few local craft distilleries and non-alcoholic beverage producers for you to taste. 

Beverage vendors will sell their products to go. 

Real Ale is brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container, such as a cask, from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide. 

The Real-ly Local Ale Festival features Real Ales brewed exclusively by local breweries in the District. The DC Brewers’ Guild supports small-scale manufacturers on the individual and collective level: they provide members the tools and structure for both individual growth and positive systemic change.

Tickets: 

• Unlimited: $40
• Entry Only: $10

Rain Date: Sunday, October 27th 1-4pm 

Rules: 

• Must be 21+ for entrance, small supervised children allowed
• No pets, registered service animals allowed
• No entrance after 3pm
• No outside alcoholic beverages
• Only small bags or clear bags allowed
• We reserve the right to remove people that are too intoxicated
• We reserve the right to remove people that are causing unsafe conditions 

Confirmed Beverage Producers:

Stay tuned for pour list. More coming soon...

Thank You to Our Sponsors:

• JBG Smith 
• Heurich House Museum
• Eckington Hall
• Interested in sponsoring? Email us at events@dcbg.org.

Refund Policy:

• All sales final. Tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred to rain date.
• If you can not attend the rain date, only ticket cost without fees will be refunded. 

All proceeds from the festival will go to supporting the DC Brewers’ Guild. 

Craft Beverage Producers are good for our city and are essential to our local identity. Their taprooms and restaurants serve as “third places” – neighborhood amenities or gathering places and anchors, each with its own unique individual character that centers and supports other communities. According to the Brewers Association’s 2021 economic impact survey, the DC Craft Breweries contributed $193M to the local economy and created 1,401 jobs; having a local craft beer industry provides another avenue of trade labor in our city. The owners of these manufacturing businesses sit on Main Streets boards and the boards of other local non-profits.