Festival Snapshot
About: Texas Craft Brewers Festival is the state’s largest annual beer event featuring exclusively small and independent Texas craft breweries. Produced by our Guild, it is our most important fundraising event of the year and a chance to showcase our statewide industry to thousands of craft beer enthusiasts from near and far.
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2026
Brewer Load-in: Friday, November 13, 2026
Location: Fiesta Gardens (2101 Jesse E. Segovia St. Austin, TX 78702)
VIP Hours: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM (approximately 1,000 attendees)
General Admission Hours: 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM (approximately 3,500-4,000 additional attendees)
Registering Your Brewery
- Texas Craft Brewers Festival participation is open to operating member breweries of the Texas Craft Brewers Guild that are current on dues. Please contact Meg immediately if you have a question about your membership status. (Breweries in planning, please see information at the bottom of this post.)
- Here’s what you’ll need to complete the brewer registration form linked at the bottom of this page: your name and contact info, your brewery’s name (as you want it to appear on the festival website and in festival collateral), contact info for additional co-workers to copy on festival communications, your distributor’s name and contact information for the person responsible for Travis County sales (or self-distribution details), your permit type, a decision about which registration option works best for your brewery this year (more on that below), and a credit card.
- During the festival, participating breweries will be set up under white communal tents at alphabetically assigned tables.
(For opportunities to bring your own brewery branded 10×10 or 10×20, plus greater visibility in outreach, please see sponsor information at the bottom of this post.)
- As the festival gets closer, participating breweries will receive an orientation packet with a checklist of things to bring to brewer setup the day before the festival, Friday, November 13. This checklist includes the necessary draught and service equipment required to serve your beers as well as optional things such as decorations. Participating breweries will need to sign an equipment agreement that fulfills TABC requirements for loaning your draught equipment. This agreement will be part of the beer list submission process later this Summer.
- All beer poured at the festival must be available for legal sale in Texas with label approval/product registration. Festival beers must be draft only and kegs will be purchased by our concessionaire. Each participating brewery will have the opportunity to pour two all-day beers from their booths. (Sponsoring breweries have opportunities to bring additional offerings–see below.)
- Calls for additional beers to be featured in the Rotating Tap line up and at special activations like the Community Collaboration Tents will come when beer lists are due later this summer. Rotating taps are a limited slate of special beer tappings which occur at different, predetermined times throughout the festival day from selected breweries’ own tents. Beers featured at activatations like the Community Collaboration Tent will be poured from that satellite booth. Stay tuned for more details on these opportunities to potentially feature additional beers during the beer submission process.
We offer two registration options to suit different breweries’ bandwidths and budgets.
Under both registration options below, the festival will provide:
- 10×10 Space in Unbranded White Tent Run
- Two Tables
- Ice
- 8ft Beer List Signage
- Health Department Permits
- The Following Health Department Required Items – Floor Covering, Soap, Water Dispenser, and Paper Towels.
- Access to the Brewer Green Room, a private, air conditioned building with indoor restrooms, breakfast tacos, snacks, and industry vendors (number of wristbands commensurate with Brewer tickets in registration options below)
Discounted Registration Fee: $275
Nobody can speak to your beers better than your own team, and years of feedback tells us that our festival attendees love to meet the people behind the beers they’re sampling.
This option includes…
- (4) Brewer Tickets to represent your brand AND pour your beers for the duration of the festival
Things to Know About Option A
- By selecting this discounted option, you understand that your brewery will be responsible for serving its own beers for the duration of the festival, without the assistance of festival-provided volunteers/serving staff.
- Proof of staff TABC seller/server certification will be required from each person who will be responsible for pouring your brewery’s beers in advance of the festival. Failure to provide proof of TABC seller/server certification, no shows, or staff who are unable to responsibly serve due to intoxication may result in consequences including a fee for the $150 difference between registration options, the untapping of kegs with no one available to pour your beers, and/or waitlisting for future festivals. Refunds will not be issued.
- Note to Manufacturing Breweries: Under the advisement of our liquor lawyer, the TCBF concessionaire agreement and registration fee structure take specific steps to comply with the 2022 amended version of TABC marketing practices advisory MPA002 which allows manufacturing brewery employees to pour samples of their beers on retailer licensed premises. This change was instituted in 2023 and one we hope has eliminated some of the confusion there has previously been about who can pour beer based on whether they work for a manufacturing brewery or brewpub. We’re excited for either license type to have the ability to interact with guests and share your beers.
Standard Registration Fee: $425
We understand that some breweries may still need a hand to pour your beers.
This option includes…
- (2) Brewer Tickets to represent your brand
- Festival provided volunteers/servers to pour your beer for the duration of the festival
Things to Know About Option B
- Please understand that even if the festival will be providing volunteers/serving staff to serve your beers, as a participating brewery, you are still responsible for your own Friday load-in, Saturday morning setup, and Saturday evening tear down, and expected to represent your brand by interacting with guests at your booth.
- In moving to this two registration option model we have discontinued the use of private codes for volunteers to sign up for specific breweries. This is both to avoid confusion and streamline the process as historically few breweries utilized this option. If you have specific individuals who you’d really like to pour your beers (whether they are team members or close friends/family/brewery fans) we encourage you to choose Option A and manage your own pouring with four allotted Brewer Tickets.
- Have more than two team members who’d like to attend the event? As usual, a discount code will be available to all participating breweries to purchase additional tickets at a significant discount, but please note these are standard GA tickets and do not include access to the Green Room or VIP session. Your two Brewer tickets should be used by anyone with event setup/ full day brand rep responsibilities.
Click the button below to complete the registration form and reserve your spot!
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Sponsoring Breweries
Sponsorship opportunities are available for breweries looking to enhance their visibility on-site and in festival advertising, pour more beers, and receive more tickets. To compare available sponsorship tiers, and begin the process of signing up as a sponsor, please visit the online sponsorship kit HERE. The brewer registration fee is included in the cost of each sponsorship package (so no need to complete the standard registration process) and volunteers/servers will be provided to sponsors needing extra support.
Already signed up to sponsor? Your registration details are captured in your sponsor agreement so you will not need to complete the standard brewery registration process this year or submit a separate registration fee. Please contact Caroline if you have any questions.
Breweries In Planning
We love our breweries in planning, but festival registration is only available for currently operating breweries (i.e. currently licensed, brewing commercially, and selling beer). We understand that many of you are working hard to open your brewery and you might be anticipating opening prior to the festival date. Keep up the good work! However, we know from experience that brewery opening dates tend to be a moving target that the festival cannot accommodate for. If you are not currently operating, please feel free to join the waitlist. As mentioned above, the waitlist registration form will be posted if and when the festival fills up. If spots become available they will be filled by eligible breweries on the waitlist on a first come, first served basis.
For those newly operating breweries that do register, please note that all beers submitted during the beer list registration period must have label approval /product registration at that time. No beer without label approval can be served at the festival (it’s the law).
Questions about registration or eligibility? Contact us!