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Gulf Brew

October 21, 2023
Acadiana Center for the Arts | Jefferson & Vermilion Streets

Experience the Acadiana region’s largest craft beer festival. Grab your brew book and make your rounds to taste over 200 beers from Schilling Distributing, Crescent Crown, and local homebrewers alike. Described in recent years as “Oktoberfest in the Summer,” Gulf Brew brings a southern festival feel to tasting the finest craft brews. While you’re sipping, enjoy live music, good food, and great company, and know that your ticket purchase is making an impact.

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Getting to Lafayette

The city of Lafayette, LA is located in the center of Lafayette Parish at the intersection of I-10 and I-49 between New Orleans and Houston and only 35 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. The eight parishes that comprise the area are Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Vermilion. Acadiana is made up of 22 South Louisiana parishes that extend from south of Alexandria in the center of the state, to Lake Charles on the west, south of New Orleans on the east, and to the Gulf of Mexico in the south.

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Lafayette, LA is at the heart of Louisiana’s Cajun & Creole Country, an area known as the ‘Happiest City in America’ and it’s no mystery. Whether your passion is for our rich cultural history, the bustling culinary scene or distinctive blend of Cajun and Zydeco music, you can be sure you will leave beaming from ear to ear. Plan your escape to the Happiest City in America.

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Happiest City in America

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Gulf Brew

October 21, 2023 Acadiana Center for the Arts | Jefferson & Vermilion Streets

Getting to Lafayette

Plan Your Escape

October 21, 2023
Acadiana Center for the Arts | Jefferson & Vermilion Streets