1. Three friends at GABS
    Photograph: Supplied/GABS
  2. Three punters at GABS
    Photograph: Supplied/GABS
  3. Friends enjoying beers and food at GABS festival
    Photograph: Supplied | GABS Festival
  4. People dancing raising arms at GABS Festival
    Photograph: Tyr Liang | GABS Festival
  5. Live band performing at GABS Festival
    Photograph: Tyr Liang | Live entertainment at GABS Festival

GABS Festival

With more than 500 beer taps under one roof, GABS is the country's biggest beer festival – and it's going down in Sydney soon
  • Things to do, Fairs and festivals
  • ICC Sydney Theatre, Sydney
Lisa Hamilton
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Time Out says

Real ale fanatic? Craft brew aficionado? We’ve got news. The GABS Beer Festival – the most anticipated event on Australia’s beer calendar – is heading back to Sydney this May. Complete with a 30-metre bar (the longest in Australia) GABS will bring more than 500 brews to the Harbour City for festival goers to have a crack at.

Attendees of GABS25 can head along to the International Convention Centre to sample the extensive selection of daring, out-of-the-box concoctions.

Among the line-up of funky frothies will be some seriously unique tipples like the Broken Bay Pearl Beer from Six String Brewing Co in Erina that was made using 1000 shucked oysters. If you’re not saying “what a pearler” two pints in, that’s on you.

Elsewhere on offer you can get your laughing gear around the Gingerbread Pastry Beer (yes) from Shout Brewing Co in Newcastle or the Pickle Beer (double yes!) from Stoic Brewing in Gerringong. 

The creativity of these breweries knows no bounds, with the likes of The Socials Brewers in Mortdale heading to GABS25 to show off their Vegemite, stale bread and Indigenous macadamia nuts beer. Sounds yeasty.

For the sweet toothed among us, there’s a Rainbow Ice Cream Cone beer by Good Land Brewing which is stacked full of strawberries, bananas, cherries, blueberries, vanilla ice cream and bubblegum. 

There will also be some European guest breweries at the festival including the world’s oldest brewery, Weihenstephan, all the way from Germany.

With 500+ beer taps on offer, a chance to meet the brewers, masterclasses, live music and street food vendors (did someone say currywurst?), this weekend will be a beer-lover's dream.

If you can already taste the crisp stout on your lips, head here and grab a ticket to the GABS Beer Festival and head on down to the ICC May 30-31.

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Details

Event website:
www.gabsfestival.com/
Address
ICC Sydney Theatre
14 Darling Drive
Sydney
2000
Price:
From $42 per person

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