Bierfest - Beer festival in Gressoney
Resorts: Gressoney-Saint-Jean
Car park “Weissmatten”
20 June 2024 - 24 June 2024
The Bierfest is ready to return in Gressoney-Saint-Jean for four days dedicated to the famous Kühbacher Bier, produced in the brewery owned by Baron Beck Peccoz, born in Gressoney but emigrated many years ago in Kühbach, Germany.
The festival was born at the beginning of the 1980s as a simple village festival, but its fame has now spread to the neighbouring valleys and to the rest of the region, Piedmont and northern Italy.
The feast takes place in a large pavilion on the Weissmatten square, near the chairlift of the same name. The approximately 15.000 litres of beer arrive in Gressoney-Saint-Jean in a single large cask, in order to keep intact all the precious characteristics that make it so appreciated and unique, uncorked during the first day, when the celebrations kick off.
NOT ONLY BEER: 4 DAYS DEDICATED TO FOOD AND WINE, MUSIC AND DANCING
It will not be an event dedicated only to beer, as a matter of fact during the evenings at the pavilion good food will also find space and an accurate catering service will be organized with dishes prepared on-site. The dinners will also be enlivened by typical Bavarian Oktoberfest songs, folk music, but also by classics and international music hits. Come and have fun in Gressoney-Saint-Jean, you won’t regret it!
- Festival dedicated to the craft beer
- No entrance fees to the pavilion
- Dinners with typical Bavarian specialities and more
- Dancing evenings with good music
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Free admission to the pavillion.
All the meals are chargeable.
On Friday and Saturday: Free shuttle service from parking lots to the pavilion.
Thursday 20th June
- at 5.00 p.m.: Opening ceremony with tapping of the beer keg
- at 7.00 p.m.: Opening of the self-service
- at 9.00 p.m.: Dancing party with Federica Cocco
Friday 21st June
- at 5.00 p.m.: Opening of the pavilion
- at 7.00 p.m.: Opening of the self-service
- at 9.00 p.m.: Dancing party with the Tirock Band
Saturday 22nd June
- at 5.00 p.m.: Opening of the pavilion
- at 7.00 p.m.: Opening of the self-service
- at 9.00 p.m.: Dancing party with the Dolomiten Bierband
Sunday 23rd June
- at 12.00 a.m.: Opening of the pavilion and of the self-service with music by the Haus Band Gaby
- at 7.00 p.m.: Opening of the self-service
- at 9.00 p.m.: Dancing party with the Spritz Band
Monday 24th June
- at 12.00 a.m.: Opening of the pavilion and of the self-service with music by the Walserjunge Musikanten
- Afternoon in the sign of folklore with: Grupa balarins de Gherdëina Urtijëi (folkloristic group from Ortisei - Val Gardena), Celtic Roses (Irish dances), Trachtenverein Zermatt (folkloristic group from Zermatt), Greschoneyer Trachtengruppe (folkloristic group from Gressoney) and representatives of other folkloristic groups from the Aosta-Valley.
- at 7.00 p.m.: Opening of the self-service
- at 9.00 p.m.: Dancing party with Gruppo 3
On Friday and Saturday night there is a free shuttle bus service between the pavilion, the tent camp and the car parks, with some runs to and from Staffal (Gressoney-La-Trinité).
On Sunday morning the tent camp must be cleared by 11.00 a.m..
See also
Note - this information is not directly connected to the Cammino Balteo path but it is part of the Aosta Valley tourist offer.