Alefort 2024 features an incredible array of beers from 50+ local, regional and international breweries! Alefort’s flavorful menu will excite festival-goers and craft beer enthusiasts alike.
While beer is the star of the show at Alefort, we also have an exciting assortment of wine and ciders from Idaho and beyond. NEW this year, Alefort has a decked out, dedicated Zero Proof bar! In the Alefort Lounge, you’ll find festival faves like Drag Brunch, Comedy Brunch, and much more! No Buzz Pass this year — instead, get yourself a Lookout Lounge pass 😉
ALEFORT DEETS ⤵
🍺 Located inside the free area at Julia Davis Park
🍺 Bring your steel cup or Alefort taster cup (you can purchase one inside at Alefort)
🍺 Buy tokens ($3 each) at Alefort – or dig them out of your festy fanny pack
🍺 Tasters will be 1-5 tokens, depending on the rarity or specialness of the pour
🍺 Alefort is totally free to enter & open to the public of all ages, but you gotta be over 21 to drink!
WINE Bar
Whether you are a true connoisseur or just interested in a glass of pinot noir, wine is back for its fourth year at Alefort! From orange wine to biodynamic, classic varietals to every kind of sparkler, the wine showcase will deliver over 50 wines in five days and help you grow your personal palate.
We’ll be hosting four wine booths within Alefort:
Booth 1:
All things bubbles! Enjoy sparkling wines from all over the world, including a couple local offerings (and even some Chambongs!)
Booth 2:
Taste the rainbow with a selection of white, orange and pink wines from around the world.
Booth 3:
Get your red fix here, with tastings of all red wine from light and bright reds, to big bold reds.
The Barrel
On top of all that, meet us at The Barrel–a literal wine barrel that will be hosting rotating rare finds and cellared wines daily. This will not be a year to miss as we have a very special guest winemaker from Walla Walla joining us for a private tasting and talk at the Barrel on Saturday. Meet Trey Busch of Sleight of Hand Cellars, who will taste us through his current release lineup.
The Barrel is for the true connoisseur who wants to step their tasting game up a notch and try wines they may never get their hands on. Rare gems, old vintages, and small production wines will be offered by the best of the best producers.
Broaden your Alefort experience by tasting your way through the world of wine!
Cider Bar
We’ll have a whole slew of local and regional ciders to enjoy throughout the fest! Plus, back this year is the infamous Treefort Txotx! This historic Basque tradition is the best way to experience cider during the fest. Cheers with your pals and make new friends during this lively event with Basque dancers, freshly made paella, and taste loads of cider literally shooting out of their barrels!
Zero Proof Bar
NEW this year, Alefort has a decked out, dedicated zero proof bar. You’ll find kombucha, a mixed cocktail menu (including an olive oil martini!), and canned non alcoholic beers.
Poutine Palace
Daily: Wed. 3/20 – Sun. 3/24 @ Alefort Lounge
Yes, you read that right: a Poutine Palace. New this year, we’ll have 5 different poutines – including a vegetarian option! — made using locally sourced products. Think hand-punched local fries from Mike Heath at M&M Heath Farms (who was featured in Michael Pollan’s NYT article!) and melty cheese curds from Ballard Farms. Take a trip to the Poutine Palace at Alefort and you’ll be fueled and ready to party the whole Treefort week!
Beer Bars
Taste your way through crispy lagers, dark stouts, fresh IPAs, and wild and intriguing one-off styles. Delve into back catalogs to find some squirreled-away barrel-aged beauties. With five different bars featuring five different styles, you can go on a tasting adventure or make a beeline for your fave beer. Here’s what you can look forward to:
LIGHT & CRISPY
Beer flavored beer is back! On the lighter and easier to drink side, there will be 12 different crushable beers from near and far. The glow from a light beer almost emanates its own sunshiney-glow: and from American adjuncts to European classics, you can find the perfect sunbeam to bask in.
DARK & MALTY
For those looking for a bit more richness and roast in their beer diet, we will be showcasing 12 beers where malt is the prominent feature. With Porters, Stouts, Dunkles, and more: if you are looking for a full bodied beer with a touch more sweetness, this is the bar for you.
HOPPY
One of the most varied styles out there, IPAs are so much more than a style meant to destroy your palette with bitterness. Of course there is always a place for that kind of IPA, but with many new hop variants being developed every year, new flavor profiles can make your hop-forward beer smell like a basket of tropical fruit, or freshly squeezed OJ. With 16 taps ranging from brighter and drier West Coast styles to juicy and smooth New England Hazy styles, there is bound to be something new for the most dedicated hop-head to discover.
TART & FUNKY
Sometimes only a sour will do. The brightness of an already tart fruit paired with beer, then lovingly mixed and mingled together is a thing of beauty. Or adding so much fruit that there is more fruit than beer, resulting in a beer of near smoothie quality. But on the other side is the funk. From harnessing the products of societies of bacteria and yeast, complex flavors can arise from a beer to add flavor that can only come from wild fermentation. Funky and sour beers can be one of the hardest beers to make (when done on purpose) and we will have 8 different examples of old and new world interpretations of these styles.
BARREL AGED
At the extremely big end of beers, we will be featuring 8 different beers that have spent time gaining complexity from Wine and Spirit barrels. Left to their own devices and lovingly taken care of for years at a time, malt heavy beers like Russian Imperial Stouts and Barleywines can take on characters of the barrels they are aged in, while also developing their own flavors through the extra time of conditioning. Big, complex, and warming, these beers will be big, bold, and decadent.
LOCAL LIBATIONS
One of the exciting things Alefort has been working on for 2024 is the brand spankin’ new Local Libations bar. We worked with the brewteams at local breweries Barbarian Brewing, Bear Island Brewing + Brown Beard Brewing, Lost Grove Brewing, Mother Earth Brew Co, and Sockeye Brewing to come up with one-of-a-kind beers that will be featured at our Local Libations bar. We at Alefort have put our heads together with each brewery to come up with styles a bit outside of the norm, with a focus on using as many local ingredients as we can to make something truly unique. Five beers (one from each brewery) will be debuted at Alefort, creating a brand new experience that allows our local breweries to shine, and to bring something completely new to the fest.
