Brew fans take note: Tickets for Snallygaster 2021, D.C.’s biggest beer festival, are still available.

Tickets buy customers unlimited beer, wine, and cocktail tastings at the long line of vendor tents along Pennsylvania Ave NW in downtown D.C. (Beers come in 4-ounce pours, with the exception of 16-ounce Bluejacket cans.)

The Saturday, Oct. 9 event features a list of about 440 craft beers and ciders from more than 200 breweries across the world, local food trucks, and two stages of live music. The festival is organized by the Neighborhood Restaurant Group (behind local businesses like Bluejacket, ChurchKey, and The Sovereign), and beverage director Greg Engert hand selects each beer.

Organizers recommend taking a cab, rideshare, or Metro because there is no parking for the event.

Engert told WTOP that after holding out on the fest last year due to COVID, the organizers added 50 breweries to this year’s list.

“Missing it in 2020 was a true bummer,” Engert told WTOP. But, he said, “Things are looking up,” adding that after taking a hit for much of the pandemic, draft beer is on its way back as establishments reopen to full capacity.

Now in its ninth year, Snallygaster is an annual fundraiser for nonprofit Arcadia, which is “dedicated to creating a more equitable and sustainable local food system” in the D.C. region. Proceeds support the organization’s mobile farmer’s markets in underserved neighborhoods, their farm in Alexandria, and a veterans program.

Snallygaster, 12-6pm, Oct. 9; Entrances at 7th & Pennsylvania Ave, and 3rd & Constitution Ave NW.