Tickets are on sale today for the Bacon and Beer Festival at Fenway
What’s a better way to spend a summer day than with smoked meat and booze.
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If you love bacon and beer, this Fenway Park festival is for you.
The 2016 Bacon and Beer Festival will bring smoked meat and booze samples to Fenway on June 12 from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale Monday for $52.50; they include event entry, endless bacon, and eight 3-ounce pours of beer.
The festival also serves as a fundraiser for the Red Sox Foundation, the official team charity of the Boston Red Sox; Community Servings, a meal delivery program for people with AIDS; and Lovin’ Spoonfuls, a Brookline-based nonprofit that brings fresh food that would normally be discarded to community organizations throughout the city.
This is the seventh annual Bacon and Beer Festival. Last year was the first time that Fenway hosted the event; EatBoston founder Aaron Cohen, whose group produces the festival, started the bacon and beer celebration in 2010 while working in the South End.
More than 40 restaurants are bringing the bacon to Fenway, including local favorites like Roxy’s Grilled Cheese, The Independent and El Pelon. Harpoon, Sam Adams, Lord Hobo, and thirteen other breweries will provide their specialty brews, along with the beers regularly poured at Fenway.
“I love cooking for Bacon and Beer. Definitely one of my favorite events,” said Suzi Maitland, chef of Trina’s Starlite Lounge, in a press release. “It’s high energy, and everyone is there to celebrate beer and bacon. How can you go wrong with that?”
You can show off your bacon- and beer-loving pride with festival merch, as well, though if you spring for the VIP ticket, $105, you’ll get a t-shirt along with special entrance to the event, a Fenway-themed bobble head, a ‘Defend Bacon’ tote, and one pound of Star Market’s Signature Farms bacon.
“It’s exciting to be doing the Bacon and Beer Festival at Fenway Park again this year,” Cohen said in the release. “It’s an amazing place to enjoy the bacony creativity of the chefs and to be able to match that creativity with delicious beers.”
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