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Marchfest. The festival with special ingredients!

Welcome to MarchFest, Nelson New Zealand's beer flavoured festival

- a celebration of music, food, fun and of course.. proper beer.

The annual invitation to the region's craft breweries has gone out and several breweries have already accepted the MarchFest challenge. The theme for this year's Craft beer and music event is "Special Ingredients". The organisers of MarchFest have asked brewers to temporarily throw the famous Bavarian Beer Purity Law out of the window, by choosing a secret added ingredient for their Marchfest brew. The brewers have also been asked to choose a name for the new beer that cryptically gives a clue to that ingredient. MarchFest attendees will be able to enter a competition to guess the secret ingredients to win cool prizes on the day.

Latest news

2nd Feb 12 > National Focus for MarchFest
9th Dec 11 > Bands and Beers lineup finalised
31st Oct 11 > On-Cue re-appointed as event managers for Marchfest 2012

Great Music

> Alabama 3 Acoustic and Unplugged (8.45pm - 9.45pm)
> John Cooper Clarke (7.30pm - 8.30pm)
> Drab Doo Riffs (6.15pm - 7.15pm)
> The Immigrants (4.00 - 5.00pm)
> Grant Smithies (2.30pm - 3.30pm & 5.00 - 6.00pm)

Beer etc

> Lighthouse Brewery
> Mussel Inn
> The Sprig and Fern
> McCashin's Brewery
> Founders Brewery

Featured breweries

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