Gojira and beer alert!
2025 makes it the lucky 13th year of Snallygaster! The best beer festival in DC? Obviously. The best beer festival in the world? Be careful how you respond, Gojira is listening.
This year will be impressive once again, as there will be around 175 breweries pouring their fine wares in the form of over 450 beers and ciders.
Check out the current Brewery list here.
Here is the 2025 map of the each brewery’s location.
We will update this post as more details are forthcoming. And we will do our annual “Jeff’s Beer Sheets” and post that comprehensive guide of all the beers, so you can plan ahead, shortly before Snally Day. Here is last year’s beer sheet.
Why this beer festival? It is the best beer festival in DC. The Neighborhood Restaurant Group (NRG) brings to life the excellent beer programs at Bluejacket, Churchkey and The Sovereign. NRG puts a lot of effort into curating the Snally beer list, including many rare options, and beers from around the USA or the world. Many of our favorite breweries from last year are returning including: ill will Brewing, Barreled Souls Brewing, Mindful Ales, Sapwood Cellars, Timber Ales, Trillium Brewing, and Fidens Brewing just to name a few.
It is held along Pennsylvania Ave NW (between 3rd and 7th) and you pay a flat fee, with all you can drink beer samples included. Food costs extra. And there is plenty of music. See below.
Snallygaster will benefit Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a more equitable and sustainable local food system in the Washington, DC area. The brainchild of Neighborhood Restaurant Group Founder Michael Babin, Arcadia has a production and demonstration farm, a program to train military veterans to be farmers, field trips and farm camp for school children, and a Mobile Market program that sells affordable, convenient high-quality food in low-income, low-food access neighborhoods. Snallygaster is the nonprofit’s largest annual fundraising event. All us beer enthusiasts get to enjoy imbibing beer with the added bonus of helping others. There has to be a t-shirt for that, right?
Snallygaster will be held on October 11th this year.
Tickets go on sale on July 8th at 10am.
Check for tickets on the Snally website when they go on sale.
The Basilisk (VIP) pass is $150 (12pm Entry until 6pm w/unlimited tastings).
The Kraken (General Admission) is $75 (2pm Entry until 6pm w/unlimited tastings).
Downtown DC (Pennsylvania Ave NW between 3rd & 7th)
Music/Food
There will be 25 food vendors and nearly a dozen bands and DJs playing on two stages and at the entrances.
THE 2025 MUSIC LINEUP!
7th & Pennsylvania Entrance:
DJ Analyze | 11:00 – 2:30 | Classic Hip Hop
3rd & Constitution Entrance:
DJ Honcho | 11:00 – 2:30 | Classic Hip Hop
6th Street Stage:
DJ themSee | 12:30-1:30 | Reggae & Dub
Massie | 1:30-2:30 | Power Pop
DJ Brainpat | 2:30-3:30 | 90s Hip Hop
The Smashing Times | 3:30-4:30 | Indie Pop
DJ themSee | 4:30-5:30 | Funk, Soul & Go-Go
Capitol Stage:
GAYWIFE | 1:30-2:30 | Electronic, Pop & Experimental
The Pietasters | 2:30-3:30 | Ska & Soul
DJ Analyze | 3:30-4:30 | Classic Hip Hop
Trouble Funk | 4:30-5:30 | Go-Go
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