Brew-Woo First Annual Craft Brew Festival

The DCU Center (50 Foster St., Worcester) is holding Worcester's First Annual Craft Beer Festival, Brew-Woo, on Saturday, April 23 from 3 to 9 p.m. in the Exhibition Hall.

Brew-Woo will feature more than 30 breweries with their craft beers and local brews, live music, a bar-BREW-que, traditional concessions and a seminar stage with experts from the brew-making field.

Four local bands will take the stage at Brew-Woo:

Members of Sunlea and Uncle Billy’s Smokehouse at 3:30 p.m.

Jason James and the Baystate House Rockers at 4:30 p.m.

Hard No. 9 at 5:30 p.m.

One Step Further at 6:30 p.m.

WAAF will appear alongside GrillSeekers TV®, a reality-lifestyle program, hosted by Michael Petit. GrillSeekers showcases the grilling rituals of today’s sports and food fanatics.

Participants: 50 Back Brewery, Anheuser-Busch, Atlantic Brewing Company, Atlas Distributing, Berkshire Brewing Company, Blue Hills Brewery, Cape Ann Brewing, Consolidated Distributing, DL Geary Brewing Company, Goose Island, Harpoon Brewery, Ipswitch, Long Trail Brewing Company, Magic Hat, Mercury Brewing, Narragansett, New England Coffee, Offshore Ale, Olde Burnside Brewery, Original Sin Cider, Otter Creek Brewing Company, Peak Organic Brewing Company, RedBull, Red Hook, Sherwood Forest Brewers, Shipyard Brewing Company, Sierra Nevada, Smuttynose Brewing Company, Tenth and Blake, The Boston Beer Company, Tullycross Tavern & Microbrewery, VitaCocoa, Wachusett Brewing Company, Watch City Brewery, Woodchuck, Woodstock Inn Brewery and Wormtown Brewery.

Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Ticket price includes a souvenir glass and ten drink tickets. Additional drink tickets will be for sale on-site. Tickets are on sale at the box office, at Ticketmaster locations, by phone at 800-745-3000 and online at ticketmaster.com.

NOTE: You must be 21 years of age or older to attend this event.