The Big Texas Beer Fest is Dallas’ original beer festival. It started in 2011 and it is still happening each year. The first festival dedicated to craft beer and still one of the best in the state of Texas. Big Texas Beer Fest takes place in April, at the Fair Park Automobile Building. Featuring 100+ breweries and 500+ beers, ciders, hard seltzers, hard kombuchas, meads, and more.

BTBF is well-known as the festival to go to for exclusive and rare beers, one-offs, and special beers you can’t find on store shelves. Since brewers never know when beers will be ready, they release the beer list about 1 week before the event.