Mark your iPhone calendars beer lovers!  Decatur Craft Beer Festival tickets go on sale next Tuesday, September 15th at noon.

Now you may recall that last year tickets didn’t quite sell out in the record 20 minutes as they did the year before  – there are a lot more beer festivals around Atlanta these days – but the regular admission tickets did sell out in around 90 minutes.  (Check out my handy Decatur Beer Fest ticket sellout times line chart from last year below.)  So you’re still going to have to be on your game if you want tickets.

Not only that, but the logo has also been revealed (I’m told it’s done by the artist who also did that awesome Creature Comforts/Bookzilla chalk drawing at the Brick Store – who’s name escapes me at the moment  John Durham!) AND the beer list is also online!!  UPDATE: I’m told the beer list is actually the 2014 list.  So stay tuned for the updated 2015 list.

So hop to it my friends!

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Just one more friendly reminder for readers that Decatur Beer Festival tickets go on sale at noon today, since you’ll likely only get one 20 minute window to purchase them.

You can buy $40 regular admission or $100 VIP tickets directly from Ticket Alternative HERE.

As tickets now sell out in less than 30 minutes, here is your heads up that Decatur Beer Fest tickets go out sale next Monday, Sept. 16th at noon. Tickets are $40 a pop and only 4,000 will be sold.

All tickets are sold via Ticket Alternative.

Heads up kiddos!

This year’s Decatur Beer Festival tickets will go on sale Monday, September 19th at noon, according to the Fest’s Facebook page.  As you may recall, last year’s tickets sold out in 7 hours.  With the many disappointed folks who were caught off-guard by the quick sellout last year, I wouldn’t be surprised if they went even faster this year.

Geez, that was fast.

Last year it took 12 days for the 2010 Decatur Craft Beer Festival to sell out.  This year it took 7 hours to sell all 4,000 tickets!  I’m not sure what caused the mad rush this year beyond general increasing popularity, but I bet the 12 noon start time didn’t hurt things.  This morning it seemed like the whole Twitter world was spitting out reminders every few seconds.  I remember a couple years ago, when I was one of a lone few reminding folks of such things.

Regardless, big congrats to the Beer Fest!  I think that pink elephant might be a good-luck charm. 😉

I realize I did a post like this last year too, but I still find it rather incredible that every year people end up paying more than double the face value of a Decatur Beer Festival ticket to spend an afternoon on the Square with thousands of others, throwing back half-full tasting glasses of various craft brews.

I mean, I love this fest as much as the next person, but the going rate on eBay and Craigslist is around $80 a ticket!  That’s some serious drinking money!

What is it about this festival that makes people sell first-borns to get through the gate?  It can’t just be getting drunk…because anyone can easily get drunk with $80.  Is it the drunken comradery?  The choice selection?  The brewery stickers in inappropriate places?

First off, they do exist.

Even though it was announced last week that tickets for this year’s Decatur Beer Festival had sold out in 12 short days, there are still unsold tickets out there.

How and why is this possible?  It all has to do with excessive number of people who jump up and volunteer for this event.

The city’s Linda Harris explains…

Here is what happened: We always have more volunteers than we have spots so the committee decided to hold back a limited number in order to allow those who did not get a volunteer spot the opportunity to purchase tickets. It seemed like a good idea at the time. We had no idea the event would sell out so fast so early. In retrospect, the committee said they should have just placed all of them online at the same time and they will do so next year.

Live and learn.

These “extra” tickets will be made available on October 1st, after final decisions have been made on festival volunteers.  So, if you’re still in need, you might want to jump over to Ticket Alternative on 10/1 and search for tickets.  I’m not sure exactly how many tickets are left, but I’m sure they won’t last more than a couple hours.

This story has been confirmed independently by both the city of Decatur and Ticket Alternative.