Florida Craft Beer Festivals Lock In Spring 2026 Dates for Hogtown and Safety Harbor

Two Florida craft beer festivals have pinned down their spring 2026 dates, giving the regional beer community a pair of weekends to plan around before the season gets away from them.

The Safety Harbor Craft Beer Festival landed on March 14, 2026, a date that has now passed, while the Hogtown Craft Beer Festival is still two weeks out, scheduled for March 28, 2026. Both events announced or reaffirmed their dates and published event pages in the first half of March, a move that signals organizers are serious about locking in attendance early in the calendar year.

Hogtown has long been one of the more anticipated regional festivals on the Florida circuit, drawing brewers and drinkers to what is essentially a celebration of the craft beer culture that has taken serious root in the state over the past decade. With March 28 still on the horizon, there is a narrow window to get tickets sorted and travel squared away if you are coming in from outside the immediate area.

Safety Harbor, meanwhile, ran its festival on March 14, giving attendees one of the earlier spring gatherings in the Florida craft beer calendar. The small-city setting of Safety Harbor has made its festival a distinctive stop compared to the larger metro events that dominate the statewide schedule.

The clustering of both announcements in early March suggests a deliberate push by Florida festival organizers to compete for the same planning attention that spring events in other states have traditionally captured. For anyone working a homebrewing angle into their festival weekend, either event is worth treating as a field research trip: regional festivals at this scale tend to showcase local and small-production breweries that rarely show up at the bigger multi-day affairs.

Hogtown on March 28 is the next date to circle.