Bricktoberfest

What a terrible experience. I feel cheated out of my (ultra-​VIP) tickets, which supposedly included private restrooms and complimentary food. Of course, there were only porta potties (that were shared by everyone) and absolutely no complimentary food. They had only two local food vendors (Power Pizza and a local burger joint), of which I had to pay out of pocket in addition to my very expensive tickets. Like the others say, they clearly oversold this event. Mind you, the festival took up one narrow street in Downtown Miami. You could BARELY WALK. There were so many people and what’s worst is that they ran out of beer half way through the event. Let me say this again… THEY RAN OUT OF BEER HALF WAY THROUGH THE EVENT! Absolutely unacceptable! The fact that they falsely advertised private restrooms and complimentary food is one thing, but to be irresponsible and not make sure there were enough beers at a beer festival is unforgivable. These tickets were very expensive and I spent two hours drinking about 10 samplings in between a mob of sweaty people. I had to leave early, not because I didn’t want to be clustered in between people, but because there was nothing to drink. What a disappointment and I wish I hadn’t spent so much on these tickets. I will not be coming here next year.
Overall: NOT RECOMMENDED!
Suggestion: Go to Grovetoberfest (well worth the money spent)

This is the worst event that I have ever seen. The tickets were oversold and it was wall to wall people. The was NO Beer or Food for sampling and the promoter should give everyone a refund! Even the Miami Fire Marshall stopped the event because an even for a few thousand people had tens of thousands of people.
Please spread the work and call LivingSocial at 1−877−521−4191 and tell them about this fiasco!

Unlike Adma, I’m more than happy to take a blowtorch to stuff that sucks, and this event was a complete disaster. While I enjoyed Fado’s St. Patrick’s day event, if this is how future Fado beer festivals are going to go, then I strongly suggest people avoid them. To start with, instead of shutting down Miami Ave and cordoning off parts of Mary Brickell village, they shut down SW 10 street and kept it confined just to the street, itself, while the VIP section got the sidewalk area all to themselves.
On top of it being a much smaller space, they way oversold the event. It felt like we were being herded like cattle. I feel sorry for anyone who was at that event and suffers from claustrophobia. Finally, the beer sampling event was supposed to be from 2 pm — 6 pm. By 4:30 pm, most of the tents closed up shop and started charging for drinks. For the remaining 1.5 hours, the crowd was confined to 2 tents that served Bud Light or some crappy beers that local liquor stores couldn’t even give away (like coconut curry beer which is as disgusting as it sounds). My final tally — for 32 bucks, I had about 30 oz of beer over 2 sweaty, claustrophobic hours. Even at the reduced Living Social price, that’s a rip-​off any way you slice it.

Good turnout lots of beer. VIP access baby! Lots of different vendors mainly beer purveyors. There’s a couple food stands including power pizzeria. Live musica!