EVENT PROGRAM
Saturday 12th November 2022
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Festival Bar The Aestec Festival Bar
Will be serving up a variety of icy cold australian craft beer cans at the 2022 cq beer &cider festival! Drop by the Aestec Bar for your frostry brew and help support Gladstone Festivals and Events!
WELCOME TO THE FOURTH CQ BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL It is with great pleasure that Gladstone Festivals and Events welcome you to the 2022 CQ Beer + Cider Festival! Our team is incredibly proud to present this event to our community for the fourth time and couldn’t be more thrilled with our line up of awesome brewers, street food vendors and entertainment we have on offer for this event. The CQ Beer and Cider Festival is organised by Gladstone Festivals and Events - the not for profit organisation who deliver the Gladstone Harbour Festival to the community each year. All monies raised at the CQ Beer + Cider Festival go straight back into our organisation and in turn, help deliver the Gladstone Harbour Festival FREE to the community each year - so by purchasing a ticket to this event you have helped us raise much needed funds to keep this iconic event free of charge for our community. Thank you!
We’d also like to give a huge round of applause to our fantastic sponsors who have helped make this event possible, our exceptional MC Hammo and event photographer Wezzy Cruze and of course the wonderful brewers who have come on board to support the event in 2022. We hope you have an awesome time at this year’s event - Cheers!
GUEST BREWERS Born on the Sunshine Coast, Your Mates Brewing Co are dedicated to drinking good beer, with good mates and having a good bloody time! Your mates will be serving up 6 of their best brews including Macca Lager, Eddie Xtra Pale Ale, Larry Pale Ale, Sally India Pale Ale, Donnie Dark and Your Mates Alcoholic Ginger Beer
Heads of Noosa are an Australian idependently owned craft brewery, creating premium Noosa Beer on the Sunshine Coast. With a passion for lagers and a focus on quality, Heads of Noosa strive to produce truly enjoyable beers for everyone - make sure you check out their Japanese Lager, Bock Lager, Summer Dusk Lager and Pilsner at this year’s event!
GUEST BREWERS Ballistic Beer Co is home to a fast growing community of beer lovers from all walks of life. They are a team of innovative brewers who believe everyone should have the chance to enjoy a well crafted quality beer. Make sure you check out their Reef Mid, Reef Pale Ale, Risk It Red Rye and new this year their Alcoholic Ginger Beer.
Ballistic Beer Co believe great beer has the power to bring people together and grow communities
It’s Black Flag Brewing the Pirate way! Good people brewing good beer in good places. Checkout their Range - Rage Juicy Pale Ale, Affinity Tropical Pale, Old School Cool, Astro Punk XPA, Kick Ons Mid Strength
GUEST BREWERS When you find yourself with a drink from Diablo Co in your hand you can be sure you’re knocking back a product that’s 100 percent Queensland made! Diablo will be serving up Ginger Beer, Diablo Passion Spritz, Eros Grape Seltzer and Tropical Mojito.
“Growing up in Gladstone we fondly remember cracking the top off a bottle of Ward’s Soft Drink. That’s the feeling we’re hoping to capture with every beer poured at this historic former cordial factory, as we proudly write a new chapter for Ward’s and the Gladstone community.” Come on down and try their Lager, XPA and Tropical Pale Ale for the very first time
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Food Heavens Kebabs Mr Pulled Woodfire Pizza Brazzo Boys Tornado Potato
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Festival Info First Aid
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Brewers Heads of Noosa Diablo Black Flag Your Mates Ballistic Ward’s Brewery GFE Garden Bar Aestec Festival Bar
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FESTIVAL INFO FESTIVAL CURRENCY
The CQ Beer + Cider Festival is a cashless event and all stallholders will run on a Square payment system to ensure speed of service and shorter wait times. Simply tap your eftpos or credit card at any of the stalls and you’re good to go!
SAFETY
The safety of event patrons and staff is of the utmost importance to our team. First Aid officers will be on site for the duration of the event should you require any medical assistance. Brewers and Festival Bar staff will be practising reponsible service of alochol during the event. There will be a pick up and drop off zone at the event and we strongly encourage having a designated driver nominated within your group so you can all get to and from the event safely!
PARKING
Parking will be available at CQU and the Gladstone Marina Parklands on Bryan Jordan Drive (a short walking distance to the festival site).
WHAT TO DO Garden Bar
will be your one stop for Ginger Beer, Spritzers, Cider, Wine and non alcoholic drinks!
What Are Mates For
WHAT TO BRING Make the most out of your festival experience and make sure you pack the following essentials! HAT SUNSCREEN Joelow 0Brown Stad ston Qld680
Admit one
ID TICKET
There will be shade, but it’s Queensland and it’s Summer and it’s hot! See Above! The event is strictly over 18, ID may be checked on entry
Either a paper copy or on your phone
PICNIC BLANKET OR FOLD UP CHAIR - OPTIONAL
ON STAGE Stage
Schedule John Eade: 2:25 - 3:10 Ethereal: 3:30 - 4:15 Zac Cross Band: 4:30 - 5:30 jayd Mckenzie Duo: 6:00 - 7:00 Rlyair: 7:15 - 8:15 Side Hustle DJ Spaztic scratching in between sets
FUN & GAMES KEG THROWING COMP Test your strength at the annual Port City Meats Keg Throwing Competition! No need to sign up, just show up to the Keg Throwing Comp Arena and get in line to throw the keg!
Prizes for the furtherest
Male & Female keg throw. AND We will let the judge announce his call for the remaining prize.
WIN! male
PORT CITY MEATS $125.00 GIFT VOUCHER
female
PORT CITY MEATS $125.00 GIFT VOUCHER
judges call
PORT CITY MEATS $50.00 GIFT VOUCHER
FOOTY THROWING COMP How good is your aim? Have a go at our 2021 CQ Beer and Cider Festival Footy Throwing Competion.... Throw Left, Throw Right, Throw the footy through the target and score yourself a
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WIN! score yourself a prize by getting the footy through the target!
FUN & GAMES
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WIN! solo $59.00 date night box voucher - the mix duo $99.00 family hunger voucher - the mix crew (- over 3 people $159.00 feed the army box voucher - the mix
Do you, or someone special in your life have a fondness of a ugly shirts? Well we’ve got the competition for you! Wear your absolute whackiest shirt and be in the running to win some awesome prizes! Judging will take place on the main stage and the crowd applause will determine the winner for each category - so get your ugliest shirt out, assemble your crew and make a statement at the Ugly Shirt Comp!
BE SAFE we want you to have an awesome time at the event, but would like to take this opportunity to remind you that The CQ Beer and Cider Festival is not a Booze Fest. Event Organisers will not tolerate any intoxicated or anti-social behaviour from attendees, and they will be removed from the event without any ticket refund. The event is designed to give attendees the opportunity to sample and appreciate the awesome variety of beer and cider that is on offer from local qld brewers. have an awesome time, drink responsibly, don’t drink and drive and look after your mates!
Thank you!
This event is proudly presented by the team at Gladstone Festivals and Events - a not for profit community organisation, made up of a small team of staff and a group of hardworking volunteers. All monies raised at the CQ Beer + Cider Festival go straight back into the Gladstone community by providing much needed funds to stage the Annual Gladstone Harbour Festival. www.gladstonefestival.com