The Festival of Wood & Barrel-Aged Beer FoBAB is the world's preeminent barrel-aged beer festival and competition.
Hosted by the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild (ICBG), FoBAB invites breweries from all over the world to Chicago to showcase their rarest, most innovative wood and barrel-aged brews.
All beer, cider, mead, and perry brewers and brands featured at FoBAB has been aged in a wooden barrel or come into contact with wood during the aging process. Breweries also compete for top honors in the National Barrel-Aged Beer Competition.
