Adelaide Beer & BBQ Fest 2025 Unveils Brewer and BBQ Lineup
Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival is hosting the largest congregation of brewers under one roof in 2025. Come raise a glass to those businesses and ensure the beers keep flowing.
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Adelaide Beer & BBQ Fest celebrates 10 years of beers with an epic three days of brews, BBQ and live music this King’s birthday long weekend (June 6-8).
Since its inception in 2015, Beer & BBQ Fest has become a beacon of hope for brewers and BBQ producers. Despite the ongoing cost of living crisis, organisers are doing their bit to help out the brewing industry, waiving site fees for all independent brewers, putting about $60,000 back into the pockets of those brewers who need it most.
After revealing the action-packed musical lineup last month, featuring headliners Wolfmother, The Chats and Neil Finn alongside Custard, Rocket Science, Gooch Palms and more, organisers have today unveiled the extraordinary range of brewers and BBQ producers appearing at this year’s fest.
The lineup of brewers is a mix of emerging newcomers and old-time favourites, with the likes of Queensland’s Range Brewing, Tassie’s Fox Friday, Western Australia’s Deep Elite, Victoria’s Muffy Malone and SA’s own ill-intentions and Jump Ship Brewing mixing it up with stalwarts Pirate Life, Copers, Mismatch and Prancing Pony.
It’s not just tasty IPAs and Pale Ales on tap, with Beer & BBQ Fest also catering for those who aren’t fans of the amber liquid with the Not-Beer lineup, which includes cocktails by Kombi Crew (making their Beer & BBQ Fest debut), fine drops from Somos Wines, and small-batch spirits by 23rd Street Distillery, El Toro Tequila, Heaps Good Spirits, Vino Cellars Distillery (ABBF debut) and more.
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The BBQ program for Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival is a ‘greatest hits’ edition, celebrating the past decade with a curated selection of the best low and slow, fire-loving chefs from past lineups alongside fresh faces ready to serve up tasty meat dishes to attendees.
Producers cooking up a storm at the event include past festival favourites Fancy Hank’s (VIC) and Baltic Fine Foods (SA), alongside first-time flavour kings Burger Head (NSW), Blammo (SA) and Lions Roar BBQ (SA).
Anyone who has been to Beer & BBQ Fest knows there’s more than beer, BBQ and music to experience at the event. Punters can expect live BMX and skating demos, Riot City Wrestling laying the smackdown, eating contests, market stalls, masterclass panels with brewers and chefs and of course, the infamous Beer Bod Wet T-Shirt Championships, which always delivers a few laughs.
Speaking about the event, Co-Director of Beer & BBQ Festival and General Admission Entertainment, Gareth Lewis says: “This festival literally grew up with the brewing industry, it exists because of and for the brewers. Beer & BBQ Festival has given me lifelong friendships with the brewers and the chefs who turn out year on year. We, and they, need your support as much as ever right now, so if you’ve ever been to a Beer & BBQ Fest, we want to see your face again for the 10th birthday party.”
ABBF Beer Ambassador, Ryan Davidson (co-founder of Little Bang Brewing) adds: “The craft beer industry in Australia literally grew up alongside the Beer & BBQ Festival. It's the most important beer festival on the calendar in this country, and renowned worldwide for good reason, Adelaide should be so very proud to own it. Whether you’re a crazy hazy fan, a sour super-nerd, or a casual lager-quaffer with a passing interest in good times, I want to celebrate this remarkable festival’s 10 years of beers with you.”
Beer & BBQ Fest 2025 takes place over the King’s birthday long weekend from Friday, June 6 to Sunday, June 8. Tickets are on sale now via the Mostix website. Check out the full music, brewer and BBQ lineup below.
Beer & BBQ Fest 2025 Musical Lineup
FRIDAY NIGHT
Wolfmother, Custard, Rocket Science, The Tarantinos, Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys
Joined by South Australia’s Cosmo Thundercat, Free Golf, Haystacks Calhoon, I Can’t Believe It’s Not The Hives, JPH x The Dangerous Animals, Sticky Beak & The Briar Patch Band
SATURDAY NIGHT
The Chats, The Gooch Palms, Dick Move (NZ), Mulga Bore Hard Rock, Batpiss, Andy Golledge, Slim Krusty
And Fluorescent Adolescents, Halftime Oranges, My Cherie & Pelvis
SUNDAY NIGHT
Tim Finn (NZ), CASH: The American Recordings starring Henry Wagons & The Tennessee Studs, Mondo Psycho
Plus, Captain Hellfire & The Wretched Brethren, Free Drinks, Kelly’s Wake, King of Spain, Nocturnal Animals, The Dead Regulars & The Public Servants
Full Brewer Lineup (*ABBF debut)
Balter Brewing Co (QLD), Bells Beach Brewing (Vic), Big Shed Brewing, Bowden Brewing, Bridge Road Brewers (Vic), Brightstar Brewing, Chubby Unicorn Brewing, Coopers Brewery, Crafty Robot Brewing, Deep Elite Brewing* (WA), Eclectic Brewing, Fox Friday (Tas), Fox Hat Brewing, ill-intentions.*, Island Beer (Vic), Jump Ship Brewing*, KAIJU! Beer (Vic), King River Brewing (Vic), Lady Burra Brewhouse, Little Bang Brewing Co, Loophole Brewing Co, Ministry of Beer, Mismatch Brewing Company, Mountain Goat (Vic), Muffy Malone Brewing*, No Eye Deer Brewing*, Noodledoof (Vic), Penny Red Beer Co, Pikes Beer Company, Pirate Life Brewing, Prancing Pony Brewery, Range Brewing (QLD), Rehn Bier, Shapeshifter Brewing Co, SixTwelve Brewing, South Coast Brewing, Spinifex Brewing Co* (WA), SURE BREWING (Vic), TAFE SA Campus Brewery, The Suburban Brew, The Uraidla Brewery, The Zythologist Brewery (Vic), Tiny Fish Brew Co, Tops Beer, Vale Brewing, Woolstore Brewery, Yellow Matter*
Full BBQ Lineup
Baltic Fine Food, Belles Hot Chicken, Blammo, Bread & Bone Wood Grill, Deep Fried Sweet Treats, Fancy Hank's, Jamaican Mi Eat, Just Sticks, Lions Roar BBQ, Ninin's Indo Street Food, NOLA & Friends feat Anchovy Bandit + La Louisiane, O.G SMASH BURGERS, Smokey Uppercuts, Smokin Grillers, Sneaky Pickle, Snob Catering & Toly Vietnamese.
