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Not a casual beer garden — an actual festival with depth. The California craft scene at its most crowded, most worth sorting through.
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Saturday, June 20, 2026
12:00 PM PDT – 6:00 PM PDT
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San Diego did not invent craft beer, but it convinced the rest of the country to take it seriously. The San Diego International Beer Festival at NTC Park at Liberty Station is where that argument arrives at a single afternoon — 150+ breweries pouring simultaneously, California institutions beside out-of-state upstarts beside small-batch experiments that are not in distribution yet and may never be.
The format is honest: one tasting glass, open pours, and a full afternoon to move through the tables at whatever pace you set. The range matters. The names you already know are there — the institutions, the award-winners, the breweries whose cans fill every bottle shop in the county. But the experimental tables are where San Diego beer is actually going: the collabs, the adjuncts, the wild ales, the one-offs brewed specifically for this weekend. Those tables are worth finding early.
NTC Park sits on the grounds of the former Naval Training Center, open air at the edge of Mission Hills with room to breathe between pours. June in San Diego means low 70s and clear sky. This is the right festival in the right city at the right time of year.
June 20, 2026 at NTC Park, Liberty Station, San Diego. Tickets at sdinternationalbeerfestival.com.
The format is honest: one tasting glass, open pours, and a full afternoon to move through the tables at whatever pace you set. The range matters. The names you already know are there — the institutions, the award-winners, the breweries whose cans fill every bottle shop in the county. But the experimental tables are where San Diego beer is actually going: the collabs, the adjuncts, the wild ales, the one-offs brewed specifically for this weekend. Those tables are worth finding early.
NTC Park sits on the grounds of the former Naval Training Center, open air at the edge of Mission Hills with room to breathe between pours. June in San Diego means low 70s and clear sky. This is the right festival in the right city at the right time of year.
June 20, 2026 at NTC Park, Liberty Station, San Diego. Tickets at sdinternationalbeerfestival.com.
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