There’s a lot of beer festivals fighting for your precious dollars, some are good, some are samesies with bros and hoes twenty deep fighting over a sample of supermarkety keg turds. Breaking that ho-hum one-trick circus act is Firkfest; an all cask beer festival run by local people with that supports a local charity, the OC Brewer’s Guild.

Back for the third year, the twice-sellout fest offers ~50 casks from thirty breweries and has the balls to put a small guest limit. There’s plenty of space to sprawl out in the park, peak your head up like a prairie-hog every so often and try some of these one-time treats. With only a few more days to buy tickets, you don’t want to miss out. (protip: use code “boozeblog” to knock off $5)

Brewery Cask 1 Cask 2 32 North Red Rum, imperial red ale 8.4% with rum chips Pennant Pale Ale dry hopped with cascade 32 North (cask 3) Merry F’n Christmas- Scotch ale with Carmel and winter spices Anaheim Brewery Tavern Ale, 6.5 % abv, Real Ale, Vegan Artifex Brewing Company Triple AA Meeting Collab with Acoustic Ales (SD) Backstreet Brewery Rita Red Ale w/ Sweet Orange Peel & Whiskey Soaked Oak Chips Barley Forge Brewing Chocolate Banana Milk Stout Future Tripping DIPA w/ extra Amarillo Dry Hop Beachwood Beer of the Dragon Imp. Red Bootleggers Brewery Key Lime-ino Palomino Pale ale 5.5% real ale with key lime zest; vegan Thai Tea Far Out Far Out West coast IPA 7% real ale with thai tea; vegan Bottle Logic Brewing Square Root / Brown Porter / 6.2% / Real Ale with Root Beer Spices / Vegan Actuator Down Under / DIPA / 9% / Real Ale Dry Hopped with New Zealand Hops. Bravery Brewing Morning Cup – Black IPA w/ coffee 6.8% real ale – vegan Pink Lemonade – witbier w/ lemon zest, hibiscus and raspberries 4.9% bright beer – vegan Coachella Valley Brewing Co. Total IPA a session IPA brewed with Oro Blanco Grapefruit and Seville Oranges, dry hopped with Hallertaur Blanc and Nelson Sauvin 4.5 % abv and 55 IBU Dreamsicle a cream ale brewed with Madagascar vanilla, tapioca and fairchild tangerines 6 % abv El Segundo Basil Broken Skull (IPA w/ sweet basil. Citra Squirt! (Pale Ale with citrus and dry hops El Segundo Dad’s Army (historical English IPA), Figueroa Mountain Brewing 101 Kölsch Ale with Valencia Orange Peel and Vanilla Bean 4.8% real ale vegan Lizard’s Mouth IIPA with mango and Green Bullet hops 9.2% real ale vegan Artifex Brewing Company Triple AA Meeting Collab with Acoustic Ales (SD) Sanctum Brewing Co. Belgian golden with lemon zest, tea and rose water Belgian Single with cherries and cacao nibs Firestone Walker Brewing TBD – (UDBA probable) Hangar 24 Craft Brewery Mango Betty IPA King Harbor Brewing Coconut IPA w/ Lime Zest Swirly w/ Toasted Coconut Left Coast Brewing Red Tide w/ Galaxy hops/Belgian-style Red/7.1%/ Real ale Legends Craft Brewery Aurora Red Lager 6.2% with PLUMS Wild Child Wit | 6.4% | Bananas and whole vanilla beans MacLeod Ale Brewing Better Days | Pale Ale | 5.5% abv | Real Ale | Vegan Jahr of Porter | Keeping Porter | 8% abv | Real Ale | Vegan MacLeod Ale Brewing (cask 3) Leaving for El Paso [American Cream Ale] (cask 4)The Session Gap [Ordinary Bitter] Mike Hess Brewing Dark Brunus Rises – Porter – 7.5% – Real Ale Noble Ale Works Wrong Side Of The Road | Pale Ale | 3.9% | Real Ale w/ whole leaf hops | Vegan Man’s Milk | Milk Stout | 6.1% abv | Bright Beer | Not Vegan Pizza Port Brewing Seaside Irish Stout with oak chips aged in Jameson Sanctum Brewing Belgian golden with lemon zest, tea and rose water Belgian Single with cherries and cacao nibs Smog City Brewing Amarilla Gorilla IPA (dry hop TBD), 7.8%, Real Ale Little Bo Pils, 4.4%, Real Lager Stone Brewing TBD Strand Brewing TBD The Bruery Fruited Sour Pin (4.5%ABV) with pomegranate, blackberry and raspberry. Mischief w/ Citrus Zest The Good Beer Company TBD (collab w/ Bottle Logic) Tustin Brewing Kum Towne – Kumquat Old Towne IPA Sting Ring IPA W/ Habanero + Citra Valiant Brewing TBD

(list as of 3/14. Bold selections are Danny Fullpint’s suggested casks)

Firkfest is Saturday, 3/19 from noon-4 at Anaheim’s Packing District. Tickets and info head to firkfest.com.

Disclosure: Blog post written by dude that organizes it, Greg Nagel @firkfest. Don’t believe this hype? Check out the other press.