Fresh Fest – the nation’s first beer festival that celebrates the accomplishments of people of color in the beer industry – threw its inaugural event during summer 2018. Held last August, the second Fresh Fest Beer Festival was bigger than the first.

The third annual festival will allow even more people to participate in the event. Due to COVID-19, the third annual Fresh Fest will be a virtual event.

Everything you need to know for Fresh Fest Digi Fest

Tickets: Tickets for Fresh Fest Digi Fest are $10 and available online here.

Pittsburgh has been the site for Fresh Fest, the nation’s first beer festival focused on celebrating brewers of color for the past two years. This year, thanks to COVID-19, the festival moves online.

• 🎙 What is a Digi Fest? We talk with Fresh Fest founder Day Bracey about how they are moving the festival online
• 🍺 ShuBrew has teamed up with Four City Brewing (NJ) to make a collaboration beer for Fresh Fest Digi Fest. We talked to ShuBrew about collaborating in a time of coronavirus.
• 🎥 Last year, we worked with the Fresh Fest team to host a community beer tasting event. We invited a panel of professionals to discuss diversity and inclusion in the craft beer industry. Here is a look at what they had to say.

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What’s Fresh Fest?

By welcoming black-owned breweries from around the country to pour their beers and pairing white-owned breweries with black artists and small businesses to create collaboration beers, Fresh Fest has leaned into spotlighting diversity and inclusion in craft beer – where it previously was an afterthought.

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Both the 2018 and 2019 iterations of Fresh Fest were hosted by Nova Place in the Northside. The festival drew national media and included musical performances from groups signed to major record labels, including Nappy Roots (2019).

Why Fresh Fest and Why Pittsburgh?

Last summer, we caught up with Day Bracey and Mike Potter, the co-founders of Fresh Fest, to learn more about the festival.

‘Poured in PA’ debuts on YouTube with a full episode devoted to Fresh Fest

If you’re looking to connect deeper with the local craft beer scene – and particularly Fresh Fest – the team at Poured in PA has been filming a docuseries about Pennsylvania beer.

Their debut episode is focused on Fresh Fest and showcases several Pittsburgh breweries and small businesses. Their Brewery Spotlight segment for the kickoff episode is ShuBrew in Zelienople.