Gulf Brew 2024

Acadiana’s largest craft beer festival — sample over 200 beers from distributors, local breweries and home brewers. Enjoy food, live music & beer!

Who Can Attend?

DYS members, in current standing, who donate at least 2.5 gallons of beverage, assist with the logistics, serving or merchandise sales are eligible to get a wristband for free admission! Check with Adrien for details, limits may apply. (see ‘What We Serve’ section below for beverage donation information)

If you are not a paid member, but would like to volunteer or donate beverage, please Contact Us before October 1st. (or come to the October Club Meeting)

If you are part of another homebrew club and would like your club to have their own tent at Gulf Brew, contact Corinne Sprague with the ACA.

If you are a local brewer, and don’t have a club to serve with at this event, we’ll do our best to work you in to our tap rotation. Contact Us for more information.

Of course, anyone can buy a ticket through ACA and just drink beer!

Serving Locations

The Dead Yeast Society will once again be located right in front of the ACA on Vermilion Street.

We will be pouring small samples (2oz.) of our draft ‘home brew’ served from our old-faithful ‘Irish Coffin’. It has 8 taps, two of which can be set up for Nitro pours. We can serve from Ball-lock, Pin-lock, or up to 2 Sanke kegs. (We can also pour from bottles or other containers if you don’t package in kegs)

We are also a Designated Driver Experience stop where we will serve various homemade non-alcohol beverages.

T-Shirts, Stickers and any other Dead Yeast merchandise we have will be sold here as well.

What We Serve

While our main club focus is beer, we can pour *any* type of ‘home brew’:

• Beer
• Mead
• Cider
• Seltzer
• Wine
• Hop Water
• other alcohol or non-alcohol beverage

If you are donating beverage to the event, please fill out our Brew Entry Form ASAP! (site/club membership required) This information is used to make beer signs at the serving tents, and our tap lineup is published in the ACA BrewBook festival guide. Additionally, we showcase our lineup on our website and on Untappd for public feedback.

We have not yet secured a storage location for kegs prior to the event so please bring your brew that morning or arrange for someone to do so for you. (details by e-mail will be sent the week of the event.)

We are not responsible for your keg *after* the event. Either stay until the end to get it yourself, or make arrangements with someone *in advance* to do so for you. If you do not, and we end up with abandoned kegs, there is no guarantee that any beverage left in them will be stored cold, but if it is tasty and someone has to take it home for you, it will likely ‘pay rent’. (We appreciate and encourage beverage donations, but we don’t appreciate donors getting sloshed or not caring and then pestering us later for their kegs.)

If you would like to assist with organizing our Gulf Brew presence, please sign up for our Festivals & Events committee.

*note exact times of the event and our agenda/hourly schedule below are subject to change