Don your best flannel and facial hair and join us for the seventh annual Brrs, Beards, and Brews: A Lumberjack Festival! We're once again braving the mean streets of Old Town (otherwise known as the 1200 block of Turner Street) to share with the world Michigan's Least Professional Beard Competition, the amazing Feats of Strength (requiring both brawn and brains), vendors, bourbon, beer, games and food, all set to amazing music in a fabulous location! We’re going back to our roots of a winter festival, so get those mittens ready!
Back by request (at least we had fun), is Michigan's least professional beard and mustache competition with a few new categories! Beards can be natural or handmade.
Think you have what it takes to be the 2026 Feats of Strength Champion? Start flexing those brain and brawn muscles, gather four friends (four competitors and one handler) to create a co-ed team and register for Old Town's own Feats of Strength! Will you be holding a log? Almost guaranteed. Will you have to master a ridiculous game? Highly likely. Will you be subject to whatever our hearts desire? Absolutely. Moral of this story, be nice to the festival planners and judges who may decide to award you style points! We’ll provide registration information in the near future.
Leave your weapons at home. The only gun show we want to see is bulging under your sleeves. And, although you might have the opportunity to huck an ax or toss a log, we'll provide them for you!
We all know folks who could grow a full beard by 16 (you should have seen my sister!), so be sure to have your valid, government-issued, up-to-date, photo ID on you. We won't let you in unless you're 21 and you can prove it to the man with your photo ID! Please note, while we love tiny lumberjacks and four-footed, furry ones, this festival is not the place for them, but they're welcome to watch the events from outside of the fence!
Please, please, please don't bring in outside food or beverage (we'll have plenty of that for you!). We know you’re proud of your big, dumb cup, but it gets really awkward when we have to call you out on bringing things in and threatening our ability to have future festivals (we were also once teenagers and have played that game.) Let's not ruin the fun for everyone! Don’t worry! We’ll provide you with fabulous beverages ranging from beer, non-beery things that come in a can, bourbon and non-alcoholic beverages.
Special thanks to the volunteers who help to put this on and to our fearless sponsors who make it possible!
All we ask is for a $15 minimum donation for so much ridiculous fun. It all goes back into making Old Town the best place for everyone! And, you're drinking for charity, which is the best drinking!
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*Photo courtesy of the amazing Chamberlin Photography
Cheers!
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