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

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.

Lions, Tigers and Beers
Saturday, Sunday, June 7 & 8, 2025
Popcorn Park
1 Humane Way
Forked River, NJ
Cost: $20 to $75. VIP Admission gets you in an hour before General Admission tickets. Admission includes bottomless tastings of craft beer, wine, cocktails, and more, plus a complimentary 5oz collectible tasting glass, wristband, and entry to the park with 30+ drink varieties and local food and treat vendors from around New Jersey.

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 crafted beers, along with a tour of the ship.

Asbury Park Beer Wine and Spirits Fest
Saturday, June 28, 2025:  1pm - 4:30pm
Bradley Park
101-199 Fifth Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ
Cost: $19, $69
This event features your favorite local brew or exotic wine. Attendees will get to sample beer, wine and spirits while enjoying live entertainment, food and interactive games.

Brew at the Zoo
June 28, 2025
Turtle Back Zoo
560 Northfield Ave.
West Orange, NJ
Thios event features more than 50 New Jersey beers, with non-alcoholic drinks, food, live entertainment, animal visits, and and more.

July 2025 New Jersey Beer Festivals

Summer Brew Fest
Friday, July 25, 6 pm
Carteret PAC
46 Washington Ave
Carteret NJ,
Cost: $10 DD, $40 ticket includes souvenir sampling glass and tastings. (Food sold separately)
This event features samplings from 15 of NJ’s best New Jersey breweries, offering more than 40+ handcrafted brews. Explore seasonal favorites, talk with the Brewmasters, shop the artisan crafters and indulge in summertime bits & bites! Hang out on the Rooftop Lounge (weather permitting) and enjoy the night with family & friends.

Cheers in Chester Beer, Wine, and Spirits Festival
Saturday, July 26, 2025; 3pm-7pm
Municipal Field
134 Main St.
Chester, NJ
Cost: General admission - $60 Includes 5 ounce sample cup, samples of beer & wine, great music and access to delicious food, vendors & merchandise. Ticket prices increase to $65 on July 13 and again on July 20 to $70. $75 at the door.
This festival features over 100 cratft brews, wine, & spirit samples with food and live music.

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

Harvest Brew Fest
Saturday, September 13, 2025
1048 Washington St.
Cape May, NJ
Cost: Free admission. Varying costs for food, beer, and crafts vendors.arts.
Enjoy craft beers and celebrate South Jersey during this all-day festival that celebrates all things local! Enjoy local food vendors, local artisans, local craft beers and local musical talent.

Highlands Oktoberfest
Saturday, September 20th, 2025; 12:00 – 7:00 PM, (rain date 9/27) 
Veterans Park
Bay & Shrewsbury Avenues
Highlands, NJ
This annual event features authentic German beer and food, live music, dancing and other great entertainment.
The park is festive with fall decorations, the food is great, and the varieties of German beers are even better. There will also be live Oompah, and polka music

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!

October 2025 New Jersey Beer Festivals

Boo & Brews
Saturday, October 25, 2025; 11:30 am - 5:30 pm
Riverview Beach Park
Pennsville, NJ
Cost: Samplers Package: $10 General Admission Ticket + Souvenir Beer Glass
Non-Sampler Package: $5 General Admission Ticket
Features craft beers, breweries, live music, crafters

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