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Pop-punk, lucha libre, tacos and beer at “SABROSO Craft Beer, Taco & Music Festival”

Pop-punk, lucha libre, tacos and beer at “SABROSO Craft Beer, Taco & Music Festival”

Apr 19, 20182 min read

This may be one of the best ways to spend Cinco De Mayo this year.

The traveling Sabroso Craft Beer, Taco & Music Festival is making a stop at the Rillito Race Track from 1 – 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 5.

The festival features over 100 national and local craft beers, along with several traveling taco vendors setting up shop to keep your appetite in check.

To make every pop-punk enthusiast’s dreams come true, The Offspring, Pennywise, The Vandals, Lit, Unwritten Law, and Los Kung Fu Monkeys are sharing the stage.

Also, top lucha libre style wrestling stars from around the globe will be laying the smackdown in the ring for the title of Sabroso Champion.

General Admission Tickets to the festival are $29.50 per person, $99.50 per person for the VIP Lounge tickets, and $199.50 per person for the VIP Lounge + Eat & Greet Tickets.

General Admission Tickets ($29.50)

  • Craft beer tastings (until 4 p.m.)
  • Access to the live music and wrestling

VIP Lounge Tickets ($99.50)

  • Everything included with the General Admission ticket
  • VIP Entry Lane into event an hour earlier at noon
  • A view of the Main Stage from VIP Lounge
  • Private restrooms
  • VIP cash bar
  • Private cash food vendors

VIP Lounge + Eat & Greet Ticket ($199.50)

  • Everything listed above
  • Complimentary tacos
  • Limited Edition Sabroso Festival poster
  • Select members off The Offspring and other bands will drop by

You’ve also got an option to pick up the Merch Pack for $35, which includes fees and shipping.

Participating Breweries

  • 21st Amendment Brewery
  • Acoustic Ales
  • Alesmith Brewing Company
  • Avery Brewing
  • Barrio Brewing Company
  • Borderlands Brewing Company
  • Brooklyn Brewery
  • Cigar City Brewing
  • Crooked Tooth Brewing Company
  • Dillinger Brewing Company
  • Dragoon Brewing Company
  • Firestone Walker Brewing Company
  • Founders Brewing Company
  • Four Peaks Brewing Company
  • Funkwerks
  • The Grand Canyon Brewing Company
  • Hangar 24 Craft Brewery
  • Huss Brewing Company
  • Modern Times Beer
  • New Belgium Brewing
  • Oskar Blues Brewery
  • Shmaltz Brewing Company
  • Sierra Nevada
  • Sunup Brewing Company
  • The Shop Beer Company
  • Thunder Canyon Brewstillery
  • Upslope Brewing Company
  • Plus, more TBA

Sabroso Craft Beer, Taco & Music Festival Participating Taco Vendors

  • Chronic Tacos
  • Chubbee Monkee
  • Dos Chinos
  • Downtown Taco Co.
  • El Mercado
  • Falasophy
  • Fiesta Mediterranean Fusion
  • Haven Gastropub
  • La Sirena Grill
  • Meatup
  • Mess Hall Canteen
  • Ninjas With Appetite
  • Pia Gaucho on Wheels
  • Pour Vida
  • Ricardo’s Place
  • Ruby’s Food Truck
  • Salt & Ash
  • Sol-Agave
  • Plus, more TBA soon

The Rillito Race Track is located at 4502 N. 1st Ave. For more information and to purchase your tickets, visit sabrosotacofest.com.

Article written by:

Matt Sterner

Matt Sterner

More about Matt

At a very young age, Matt Sterner was gifted with the artistic ability to masterfully roll a burrito to the highest of standards, but the wrapped medley of delicious innards wasn’t his first love. Matt’s first true love was a combination of reading, writing, and creating. He grew up reading comics, the ingredients list of his shampoo and conditioner bottles, choose-your-own-adventure books, and the Scrabble dictionary — something he found useful when challenging his grandmother to a game.

He attended college at New Mexico State University and graduated with a degree in Digital Filmmaking. One of his favorite classes was screenwriting because he became responsible for the story’s birth before it came to life on-screen. After school, Matt took on numerous positions at a local television station in Tucson. From dealing out stories about heartbreak to producing “fluffier” content for a lifestyle broadcast, he learned what it takes to adapt to the many emotions the world of media can stir. Since 2017, Matt has dabbled in the culinary world of Tucson as well as San Diego, California from time to time.

If you’re in the mood for strange stories, head over to his pride and joy, wonkytimes.com. And in case you’re curious — yes, after all of this time, he still manages to roll a killer burrito.

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