Blobfish Festival - a celebration of strange beers - is returning to North Melbourne's Meat Market on Saturday July 23.
Headed up by the team at Footscray’s Hop Nation Brewing Co., Blobfish Festival runs across two sessions, offering punters the chance to sample interesting, rare and unusual beers from 19 top Australia and New Zealand labels.
First held in Melbourne in 2019, Covid restrictions meant the festival was cancelled in 2020, and proceeded in an online format in 2021. Now, the Blobfish Beer Festival returns to North Melbourne’s Meat Market this July, offering up an array of unique brews.
What you need to know
- What: Australia’s first festival dedicated to sour, funky and wild in the beer world. Features 19 breweries from New Zealand and Australia plus food and entertainment.
- When: Saturday 23 July, 2022 | Day Session 11:30am – 4:00pm | Night Session 5:00 – 9:30pm
- Where: Meat Market, 3 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
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Just like the Blobfish – an Australian fish determined the world’s ugliest animal (somewhat unfairly) sour, funky and wild beers emerge from the depths of the beer scene – intriguing, slightly obscure, somewhat unknown, but always exciting. Punters are set to sip a diverse range of sours, saisons, barrel-aged brews, fruity concoctions and rare small-batch runs from the likes of NZ’s Garage Project, Sydney’s Wildflower Brewing & Blending, Tasmania’s Van Dieman Brewing, and Ballarat-based sour darlings Dollar Bill Brewing.
Hop Nation Brewing Co. founder Duncan Gibson said the festival’s return was long-overdue, following cancellations due to COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 and 2021. “It’s good to be back – the first Blobfish in 2019 was bloody epic – we sold out both sessions entirely, and we’ve been frothing to get back to the iconic Meat Market and see you all in person again,” he said.
“There’s a lot of pent-up demand among fellow blobfishes out there to get back to all things dank, unique and left-of-centre in the beer world.”
Blobfish Beer Festival breweries
- 3 Ravens, Thornbury VIC
- Beer Farm, Metricup WA
- Black Arts Brewers and Blenders, Williamstown North VIC
- AWOL, Burleigh Heads QLD
- Bridge Road Brewers, Beechwood VIC
- The Barrel Farm by Blackman’s Brewery, Torquay VIC
- Boatrocker Brewing & Distilling Co., Braeside VIC
- Deeds Brewing, Glen Iris VIC
- Dollar Bill Brewing, Ballarat VIC
- Future Mountain, Reservoir VIC
- Garage Project, Wellington NZ
- La Sirène Brewing, Alphington VIC
- Lora Brewing, Marrickville NSW
- Molly Rose Brewing, Collingwood VIC
- Sailors Grave Brewing, Orbost VIC
- Site Fermentation Project, Footscray VIC
- Slow Lane Brewing, Botany NSW
- Sobremesa Fermentary & Blendery, VIC
- Stomping Ground Brewing Co, Collingwood VIC
- Van Dieman Brewing, Evandale TAS
- Wildflower Blending & Brewing, Marrickville NSW
Tickets are $85 per person + booking fee and include a 60mL tasting from all breweries, Rastal Blobfish branded glass and a festival tasting guide. The festival is strictly 18+ only. Tickets are on sale now through Moshtix.
