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BBQ & N.J. Craft Beer Festival, Featuring 15 Vendors And Live Music, To Run From Saturday Through Monday This Weekend

August 28, 2024

The three-day BBQ & N.J. Craft Beer Festival, featuring 15 food truck vendors, more than 50 craft beers and live music, will take place Saturday through Monday (Labor Day) at Monmouth Park this weekend.

New Jersey craft beers only will be available all three days in the Festival Area from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For $15 patrons will receive a wristband good for ten (10) 2-ounce samples in the beer garden and a commemorative sample glass. All beer garden attendees will receive a map of beer listings and a layout of the area.

Vendors on site all three days will be Alpine Creamery; Bacon Me Crazy; DoBees Backyard BBQ; El Lechon de Negron; Enzo’s Pizza and Subs; Five Sisters Food Co.; House of Cupcakes; Local Smoke; Lola’s; Good Food = Good Mood; Magic Mike’s; NC Ribs on Wheels; NYC Mac Truck; Vagabond Kitchen & Tap House and Wild Bill’s.

Saturday’s featured band will be After The Reign, with West End Dogs performing on Sunday and Kickin’ Nash taking over the stage “On the Green” on Monday. Live music will run from noon to 4 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday are also Family Fun Days, with free clowns, face painters, pony rides and a bounce house for kids. Sunday will be the final Family Fun Day of the season.

First race post time all three days is 12:50 p.m.