Cheers to These Amazing New Jersey Beer Festivals!

What Makes New Jersey Beer Festivals Special?

New Jersey beer festivals and craft breweries stand out for several unique reasons rooted in the state's culture, community, and brewing innovation:

• New Jersey's beer scene is heavily supported by local communities, and many craft breweries have deep roots in their towns. This fosters a tight-knit, collaborative environment where brewers and fans often know each other personally.
  
• Many NJ craft breweries emphasize creativity and small-batch production. You’ll find a wide range of experimental brews—fruited sours, pastry stouts, hazy IPAs, and hybrid styles—not just the standard lagers or pale ales.
  
• New Jersey’s strict alcohol laws have shaped a very unique brewery model. Most breweries can’t serve food and often operate like tasting rooms rather than full pubs. This encourages collaboration with food trucks and local vendors, making festivals feel more like community celebrations than commercial events.
  
• The state's geography—coastal shore towns, suburban neighborhoods, rural farmland, and urban centers—means that breweries reflect diverse tastes and identities. For example:
  Shore-based breweries often lean into summer-friendly beers like Kölsches and fruit ales. Urban breweries (like those in Jersey City or Newark) might showcase more eclectic, globally inspired beers.
  
• NJ beer festivals are more than just sampling events—they’re immersive experiences that often include: Live local music, Artisan food vendors, Games and contests, Access to limited or seasonal brews unavailable in stores.
  
• Being sandwiched between New York City and Philadelphia gives NJ breweries exposure to large, discerning beer-drinking populations—yet they still maintain a local, indie spirit rather than becoming overly commercialized.

The Top Must-Attend 2025 Beer Festivals in New Jersey

May 2025 New Jersey Beer Festivals

Skylands Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival
Saturday, May 3, 2025; from 12-7pm (Rain or shine)
Skylands Stadium
94 Championship Place
Augusta, NJ
Cost: Admission:Admission: $5 (kids under 38" free, $5 Drink Tokens: $5 Sampler Mug: (w/6x 4oz drinks) $10 Kids Drink Bat: $10 / Beer Bat: $20 Rides + Food are additional costs
Free parking
This event features entertainment for all ages. Visitors will get to enjoy the outdoors with delicious food, deserts, specialty drinks, and more. This includes 20+ Food Trucks, 100+ Craft Beers, live music, carnival games, & more.

Brew By the Bay Craft Beer Festival
Saturday, May 10th, 2025; 12pm - 5pm (May 12th Rain date)
Seafarer
1 Atlantic St.
Highlands, NJ
Event Cost: $40.00
This event features a tasting takes on the picturesque waterfront. Visitors will get to enjoy seven 4oz. tastings, There will be live music, and food to purchase.

Rhythm and Brews
Saturday, May 17th, 2025: 3 - 9pm
Station and Atlantic Ave.
Downtown Haddon Heights
This event features craft beers, live music, Food Trucks, and more. A stage will be set for Music and additional music will be placed along the avenue. Look for libations - Live performances- and a day where you can eat sip walk and enjoy up and down town.

Sourfest 2025
Saturday, May 17 2025; 12:00 pm to 08:00 pm.
614 Lambs Road
Pitman, NJ
Cost: Presale: $30 for 20 tasting tickets or $40 for 20 tickets and limited bottle release. Day of: $35 for 20 tasting tickets, $20 for 10 tickets.
This event features a day of exploration and creativity. 26 Sours 12 Seltzers Live Music, Games, Food Trucks and more: . Cost: Presale: $30 for 20 tasting tickets or $40 for 20 tickets and limited bottle release. Day of: $35 for 20 tasting tickets, $20 for 10 tickets.

June 2025 New Jersey Beer Festivals

Asbury Fest
June 6, 7, 8, 2025
Bradley Park (across from Convention Hall)
101-199 Fifth Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ
Cost: $5
This three day fest features beer, wine and spirits with live music, food, and games. The Fest will feature alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

Meadowlands Racetrack's Beer Fest
Saturday, June 7, 2025: 5 PM - 9PM ( rain or shine)
Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment
1 Racetrack Dr.
East Rutherford, NJ
This event features Beers from around the country with DJ, Live horse racing, Live horse racing beginning 6:20pm with The Belmont Stakes Simulcast.

Hopsauce Festival
Saturday, June 14, 2025: @11am
Veterans Memorial Park
198 Engleside Avenue
Beach Haven, NJ
HopSauce festival is a celebration of hot sauces from sweet to hot, and for lovers of craft beer. Attendeees can sample 50+ brews ranging from IPA's to Stouts to Ciders. You can pair your craft beer and hot sauce with a delicious selection of food and snacks from local restaurants and shops --- and with over five hours of music by new, notable and original music artists on the Main Stage. A portion of the proceeds are earmarked for community initiatives via the Jetty Rock Foundation.

New Jersey Beer and Food Festival
Saturday, June 14, 2025
The Festival Field at Grand Cascades Lodge
Crystal Springs Resort
Rt 94 & Wild Turkey Way
Hamburg, NJ
This popular festival on the grounds of New Jersey's most luxiourious resort features selections from over 200 beers, ciders & hard seltzers along with an unlimited buffet, live music, and fun activiies with goat races, axe throwing, laser clay shooting, hippity-hop races, lawn games, giant beer pong & more.

Battleship Beer Fest
Saturday, June 21, 2025; 1pm to 5pm
Battleship New Jersey Museum & Memorial
62 Battleship Place
Camden, NJ
Cost: $55 for General Admissionl, $70 for VIP tickets
Ths event features New Jersey beers and breweries showcasing over 60 locally creafted beers, along with a tour of the ship.

August 2025 New Jersey Beer Festivals

Edison's Food Wine & Beer Festival
Saturday, August 16, 2025; 4 PM - 10 PM
926 Amboy Avenue (under the Tent)
Edison, NJ
Cost: $5, Kids under 10 are Free
This annual family event features Wine & Craft Brewers including Edison's Cypress Brewery, face painting and activities for the kids, live entertainment, local vendors, artists, and more.

September 2025 New Jersey Beer Festivals

Central Jersey Beer Festival
Saturday, September 27th, 2025; 12pm (Rain or Shine, Tents will be used in case of inclement weather!)
Mercer County Park Festival Grounds. 
1665 Mercerville-Edinburg Rd
West Windsor, NJ
Saturday, September 27th, 2025
This event features a beer tasting festival with over 175 Beers, Seltzers, Wines, and Spirits, live music, and food,
There are no alcoholic beverages for purchases inside the festival, Only as a SAMPLING of many brands to taste, educate, and expand your palate of new beverages.
Bring a picnic blanket or chairs and friends and spread out on the grass in the park.
Portion of funds support Local 501C3 Non-profit charities.

Glassboro Craft Beer Festival
Saturday, September 27, 2025: 12pm - 5pm
Glassboro Town Hall
1 High Street West
Glassboro, NJ
This event features over 100 craft beer samplings from 50 + NJ and tri-state breweries, live music headlined by fan-favorite band Goodman Fiske, food trucks, and more!

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