Mash Tun Festival is a new craft beer event featuring some of the world’s best breweries. Flagship and rare beers are poured alongside one-of-a-kind concoctions at the stunning Bridgeport Art Center at 35th and Racine. The festival has been held in the turn of the century Atrium loading dock next to the center’s sculpture garden.

The festival is a celebration of the release of Mash Tun: A Craft Beer Journal, a publication put out by your buddies at Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar and The Public Media Institute.  Mash Tun is our paean to  beer. It follows the pleasures and aesthetics of craft beer and how it intersects with food, culture, and society.

Each Mash Tun Festival will be held in conjunction with the release of a new issue of Mash Tun Journal. So far we have held our inaugural event on May 19, 2012 and a second event on October 5, 2012. Details at [ mashtunfest.org ].

[ A recent article] mentioning the Mash Tun Festival appeared in the Chicago Tribune.
[ Woah Temder ] has some nice photos of the recent Mash Tun Oktoberfest .