The 12th Annual Keweenaw Brewfest, presented by the Rotary Club of Houghton, will be held on Saturday, July 27 from 1-5 p.m. at the City of Houghton’s Downtown Waterfront Pier. Tickets are available for $50 online until Noon on Friday, July 26. They can also be bought at the door the day of for $60, if there are any still available. 

Get your tickets now for access to a fun afternoon full of beer sampling and live music, a Keweenaw Brewfest wristband, your very own custom Keweenaw Brewfest tasting cup, and twelve tokens that will allow you to try a variety of new and unreleased beers. The festival will feature over two hundred beers, hard ciders, and seltzers from more than fifty breweries. Tickets can be bought at keweenawbrewfest.org. 

This year, the Rotary Club of Houghton is partnering with Copper Shores’ Meals on Wheels program. Meals on Wheels will be the featured beneficiary of the 2024 Keweenaw Brewfest’s fundraising, which will support the Produce Washing Station Project. This includes buying equipment and the renovation of workspaces to create a permanent and sustainable food cleaning area for the Meals on Wheels program. 

Interested in helping make this iconic event happen? Keweenaw Brewfest is looking for volunteers! More than 120 volunteers are needed. Shifts fill up quickly, and interested parties are encouraged to sign up as soon as possible at keweenawbrewfest.org. All volunteers will be gifted a souvenir shirt, a Keweenaw Brewfest bottle opener, and a 2024 Keweenaw Brewfest tasting cup. Beginning next year, priority will be given to returning volunteers, as there are generally more volunteers than shifts available. 

Volunteers must be 21 years or older, and will be required to attend a one-hour orientation the day before the event. Shifts usually last five hours. Participants are encouraged to dress accordingly for the weather and bring a water bottle. Volunteers are needed for the set-up and tear-down teams, security, assisting in the Brewfest Welcome Area, and acting as beer servers. 

Every year, Keweenaw Brewfest is sponsored by several local businesses and organizations. This year, sponsors include the Keweenaw Co-op, Lume Cannabis Co., Pat’s Foods, Houghton Building Supply and many others. 

Tickets are non-refundable, and the event will run rain or shine. There will be vendors on-site selling food, but table space is limited. Outside alcohol, controlled substances (including cannabis), weapons, glass containers, children, strollers, bikes, skateboards, roller skates, wagons, and animals are not permitted at Brewfest for safety reasons. Purses, umbrellas, water, non-alcoholic beverages that aren’t in glass containers, snacks, folding chairs and small coolers are all welcome. 

Keweenaw Brewfest is presented by The Rotary Club of Houghton, founded in 1920. Throughout their more than one hundred years of existence, the organization has supported many local and global projects, such as a major clean water and sanitation project in Ghana, donations to the Polio Plus Project to eradicate polio worldwide, and blankets for South Africa.