11/20/2024
Until We Meet Again Columbus!
After 15 years of bringing the fun of Columbus Winter Beerfest at the Convention Center, and Columbus Summer Beerfest at Promowest to Columbus, we must say "Goodbye Columbus!" Sadly, there will be no Columbus Beerfest in 2025.
It’s been a wild and glorious ride from the Summer of 2010. The explosion of craft breweries in Greater Columbus and Ohio has been amazing to be a part of. But times do change. Hell, we saw our Summer venue change names 3 times in this time, and we even saw our favorite radio station change names 3 times and close! (WWCD101,102.5,and 92.9). On and on.
Columbus Craft Beer is still awesome! But the large format festival model we created here, in the best, largest and most expensive venues in town, no longer works here in the new Post-Covid world of lower attendance and higher costs. We thank all of the area breweries, the Convention Center & Promowest/AEG, and our long time sponsors The Brew Brothers at Scioto Downs and many others for their support over the years.
That’s all sad to discuss, but we hope you leave this post with one concept….. we wouldn’t trade the experience of producing the Columbus Beerfests the last 15 years for ANYTHING!
We’d love for you all to dig up and share right here…. YOUR BEST BEERFEST STORIES & PHOTOS! We know some relationships were started here (and some might have ended!). We know there are some great “friends night out” stories. We know some got more motivated to open their own brewery or distillery here. We know Careers in the Hospitality Industry were started here. We know… we all had a blast!
And the Columbus Beerfest page won’t be going anywhere, so don’t unfollow us. We may create a new and exciting event and you’ll be the first to hear about it here! Meanwhile, we’ll be promoting here the larger events that area breweries will be throwing themselves. Also, our still heavily attended Winter festivals in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh will not be affected. Until we meet again Columbus!
NOW POST THOSE PICS & STORIES!
CHEERS TO YOU COLUMBUS!
