BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Thinking about going to the Vermont Brewers Festival on the Burlington waterfront this summer? You might be out of luck.
A festival producer says tickets sold out in 11 minutes for the 22nd annual event on July 18 and 19.
The 8,400 tickets were sold online with a four-ticket limit per purchase, a festival producer Laura Streets told the Burlington Free Press (https://bfpne.ws/1oY6lr2 ).
“From the business standpoint, it’s excellent,” Streets said. “From a consumer standpoint, there are 30,000 people who hit the website. We have an entire audience we’re not reaching.”
Forty-six craft brewers, including 34 from Vermont, will offer up their beer for sampling. Tickets cost $30 for one four-hour tasting session. One session will be held July 18; two the next day.
The speed of the ticket sales didn’t surprise Bob Montgomery, a “jack-of-all-trades” at Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, which sold 200 tickets to its August festival in 90 seconds last summer, he said.
“It’s just reflective of the current atmosphere in craft beer,” he said.
Five years ago, the Vermont Brewers Festival decided the event had become too crowded so limited ticket sales.
Tickets to last year’s festival sold out in 34 hours.
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Information from: The Burlington Free Press, https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com
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