Gulf Brew

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Wet your whistle and treat your taste buds to Lafayette’s inaugural beer festival.

A $15 ticket gets you 15 beer samples from breweries from across the Gulf South and local homebrewers.

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Think of it as Oktoberfest, except that you’re in Lafayette, not Germany, and it’s July. Gulf Brew is Lafayette’s first beer festival, billed as a “one-of-a-kind family-friendly festival,” held in conjunction with ArtWalk and presented by the Acadiana Arts Council. With so many local fund-raising events already centered around wine, ACA’s Betsy McComic says the group created the festival for the under-served beer drinkers. “It’s so fitting for our culture,” she says. The rest of the story R. Reese Fuller The Ind.