Forget Fenway - starting tonight, the most fun you have in town may be at Boston City Hall.
Coming to the US for the first time, the Copenhagen Beer & Music Celebration sets up shop at City Hall Plaza beginning Friday night.
Co-produced by Denmark’s Mikkeller Brewing and Boston Calling organizer Crash Line Productions, the festival will showcase more than 100 craft beers from all over the world and will feature live music. The beer fest takes the place of the Boston Calling music festival’s usual fall concert. .
“You can have a band like Mariachi El Bronx and be discovering brand-new beers as well as being able to continually reimagine what you can do outdoors in the city of Boston,” says Mike Snow, cofounder of Crash Line. “That’s always been something important to our company.”
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Snow says the celebration is well suited to Boston due to its many young residents. There’s also a flourishing craft beer industry in New England, which speaks to much of the region’s heritage.
“You’ve got a great tradition of beer being a part of life over here,” Snow says. “You’ve got a great tradition of Western European people coming over here to start their lives.”
For more information and tickets, visit www.copenhagenbeerfest.com
See all the details here:
FRIDAY NIGHT
5 p.m.: Box office opens
6 p.m.: Gates open for VIP ticket holders
6:30 p.m.: Gates open for everyone else
9:30 p.m.: Beer sampling ends
10:30 p.m.: Bars close
Musical performances: Yo La Tengo, The Barr Brothers, and Vundabar.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
10:30 a.m.: Box office opens
Musical performances: Mariachi El Bronx, The Tremolo Beer Gut, and Tigerman WOAH
SATURDAY NIGHT
5 p.m.: Box office opens
9:30 p.m.: Beer sampling ends
10:30 p.m.: Bars close
Musical performances: Lucero, Caroline Rose, and The Silks.
GETTING THERE:
Green Line to Park Street or Haymarket
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Blue Line to State Street or Bowdoin
Orange Line to State Street or Haymarket
Red Line to Park Street
Parking: The Government Center Garage is at 50 New Sudbury St.
John Hilliard contributed to this report.