Shoshone County Idaho Brews Fest Festival
The beer festival at the top of Silver Mountain does not actually carry the name printed above: every published layer consulted for this article calls it “Brewsfest”, a single word, and no layer prints “Brews Fest” as two words or attaches the word “Festival” to it at all. One destination layer from 2019 styles it “BrewsFest” with a capital F in the middle, but the name is still one word. The spaced form in the title belongs to the sheet this article was written from, not to the event itself: Brewsfest is a mountaintop beer festival run by Silver Mountain Resort above Kellogg, Idaho.
Kellogg sits in Shoshone County, and the resort rises over the town, with a gondola running from Kellogg up to the Mountain House. Kellogg is not the county seat, though; that distinction belongs to Wallace. Documented editions of Brewsfest fall in August: one in a community calendar from around 2010, one in 2019, one in 2022, and one announced for 2026.
About Brewsfest at Silver Mountain
Silver Mountain Resort is the organiser in every layer that names one. The resort’s own site sells the tickets and publishes the beer menu, and no separate festival organisation is named anywhere in the record. A 2026 chamber newsletter republishes resort copy about the event, and a ski-areas association layer listed it among the resort’s summer events in 2022, but both trace back to the resort rather than to an independent festival body.
The venue is given in two forms that amount to the same place: “the top of Silver Mountain” and the Mountain House, reached by the resort’s gondola from Kellogg. A regional outdoors-magazine layer from 2019 describes the setting as a mountaintop with three-hundred-and-sixty-degree views. No street address for the festival is published in any layer read; the documented address is effectively a lift ride, from the town below to the Mountain House at the top.
The layers are consistent about the name: the organiser’s site and 2026 beer menu, the 2026 chamber newsletter, the 2022 ski-areas association layer and the 2019 outdoors-magazine layer all print “Brewsfest”, and only the 2019 destination layer varies the styling to “BrewsFest”. Against that evidence, the two-word “Brews Fest” and any trailing “Festival” simply do not appear.
For a useful comparison, see the Shoshone County Idaho Fall for History Festival for another county festival.
Quick Facts
| Item | Detail |
| Published name | Brewsfest, one word; styled BrewsFest in one destination layer from 2019 |
| Organiser | Silver Mountain Resort |
| Host town | Kellogg, Idaho, in Shoshone County |
| County seat | Wallace, not Kellogg |
| Venue | The Mountain House at the top of Silver Mountain, reached by gondola from Kellogg |
| Documented editions | 14 August circa 2010; 17 August 2019; 13 August 2022; 8 August 2026 |
| Earliest billing found | Seventeenth Annual, in a community calendar from circa 2010 |
| Founding year | Not stated in any layer read |
| 2026 ticket | Forty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents in advance, including the gondola ride, entry, a tasting mug and six drink tickets |
| Published attendance | No spectator figure appears in any layer read |
A Billing from Circa 2010 and No Founding Year
No layer read for this article states a founding year for Brewsfest, and the one billing that survives must be handled as a billing and nothing more. A North Idaho community events calendar, surviving on a real-estate blog’s archive of that calendar and dated to around 2010, lists “Silver Mountain — 17th Annual Brewsfest: mountain top beer festival, 20 brewers, 3 live bands” for 14 August of that calendar year — in words, a seventeenth annual billing, with twenty brewers and three live bands.
That billing shows the event presenting itself as long-running around 2010, but it is not a founding date, and this article does not convert it into one. No later billing was found in the layers read, so no second numbered edition survives to check it against. The calendar itself survives only as an archived copy on a real-estate blog: a genuine community-calendar listing, preserved second-hand.
The documented editions arrive one layer at a time. The 2019 edition, held on 17 August, is described by a destination layer as “featuring more than two dozen breweries and cideries”, while the outdoors-magazine layer for the same year specifies twenty-two breweries and four cideries. Those are two forms of the same count, recorded here unmerged, because neither layer explains the other’s wording. The 2022 edition, on 13 August, appears in the ski-areas association layer as one of Silver Mountain’s summer events. The 2026 edition, set for Saturday 8 August, is documented in organiser layers, including a published beer menu of Inland Northwest breweries and cideries, and was also carried in a Wallace chamber newsletter layer. The newsletter comes from the county seat, Wallace, but it does not move the festival there.
What to Expect
The gondola ride is not just transport to this festival; in the 2026 organiser copy it is part of the ticket itself. A 2026 ticket includes a scenic gondola ride, entry to the event, a tasting mug and six drink tickets, and additional drink tickets can be purchased at the event. That structure tells a visitor most of what the day is: ride up from Kellogg, taste at the top, and buy more tickets if the six run out.
The tasting itself is craft beer and cider from Inland Northwest breweries and cideries, at least in the 2026 edition, for which the organiser published a named beer menu. Live music is part of the programme in the 2026 organiser and chamber layers, and music has been part of the event’s documented shape since the circa-2010 calendar billing counted three live bands.
One caution belongs here. The numbers attached to Brewsfest across the years — twenty brewers around 2010, twenty-two breweries and four cideries in one 2019 layer, more than two dozen in another — are programme and vendor counts. They describe who was pouring, not how many people attended; no layer read publishes a spectator attendance figure for any edition.
Planning Your Visit
The firmest ground for planning is the 2026 ticket structure, because it is the only pricing the organiser has published in the layers read. For 2026, a ticket bought in advance costs forty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents, while the same ticket on the day of the event costs fifty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents. Both carry the same inclusions: the scenic gondola ride, entry, the tasting mug and the six drink tickets.
Two variants sit alongside the standard ticket, and they are variants of the same admission rather than separate components. A combo ticket that includes mountain biking costs sixty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents in advance and seventy-three dollars and ninety-seven cents on the day. Youth tickets, for ages four to twenty, cost twenty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents in advance and thirty-four dollars and ninety-five cents on the day. The only genuinely separate purchase in the record is additional drink tickets, bought at the event once the six included ones are used.
Beyond 2026, the record gives a planner little to hold onto. No price for any other year is published in the layers read, so the 2026 figures describe that edition only. No street address is published either; the documented route to the festival is the gondola from Kellogg to the Mountain House.
A Sample Day on the Mountain, Modelled on 2026
This itinerary follows the shape of the documented 2026 edition, the only one whose ticket inclusions are published in full — a model built from those inclusions, not a printed schedule.
Begin in Kellogg and ride the gondola up to the Mountain House, since the scenic ride is bundled into the ticket rather than sold as an extra. Arriving at the top with the tasting mug in hand, work through the six included drink tickets against the published beer menu, which for 2026 lists Inland Northwest breweries and cideries. Pace the tastings rather than spending every ticket early, because replacements are a separate purchase at the event.
Leave room in the middle of the day for the live music the 2026 layers include, and for the mountaintop setting itself, the three-hundred-and-sixty-degree views the 2019 magazine layer describes. A combo-ticket holder has mountain biking folded into the same admission, so a rider’s day splits between the tasting and the trails. Finish at the top, then take the gondola back down to Kellogg.
How Brewsfest Compares with Its Near Namesakes
The closest comparison shares a roof with Brewsfest itself. Silver Mountain also runs an Oktoberfest in September at the same resort, a separate event rather than an autumn edition of Brewsfest; the August date, the beer-menu format and the name belong to Brewsfest alone.
Two further namesakes sit further away. The Mountain Brewers Beer Fest in Idaho Falls, in Bonneville County, is a completely different beer festival, and nothing from its record belongs in this article. Lookout Pass’s Mountain Brewfest is likewise separate: a winter event at a different ski area, where Brewsfest is a summer event at Silver Mountain. What distinguishes Brewsfest inside its own record is the combination of the August timing, the gondola ride bundled into admission, and the Mountain House setting above Kellogg.
Checklist Drawn from the Published Record
- Use the name Brewsfest, one word, when searching for the event, since no published layer uses the two-word form or adds the word Festival
- Remember that Kellogg hosts the event but Wallace is the Shoshone County seat
- Apply the 2026 prices to the 2026 edition only, since no other year’s prices are published
- Note that the advance price, forty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents, undercuts the day-of price of fifty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents for the same inclusions
- Count the six included drink tickets as the tasting allowance, with further tickets sold separately at the event
- Consider the combo ticket if mountain biking is part of the day, since it folds biking into the same admission
- Check the youth variant for anyone aged four to twenty travelling with the group
- Treat the gondola from Kellogg as the route up, since no street address is published
- Read brewery and cidery counts as programme counts, never as attendance figures
Beyond the Festival Itself
The record around Brewsfest is mostly the resort’s own calendar. Silver Mountain’s summer events listing carried Brewsfest in 2022, and the resort’s separate Oktoberfest follows in September, bracketing the August festival without adding to its programme. The Wallace chamber newsletter carrying the 2026 organiser copy is a reminder of the county geography: the seat of Shoshone County relaying word of an event held above Kellogg. Nothing in the layers read ties Brewsfest to any wider county festival circuit.
Why Brewsfest Matters in Its Own Record
Brewsfest’s significance, on the evidence available, is one of persistence at a single, distinctive venue. A community calendar was already billing it as a seventeenth annual event around 2010, and organiser layers were still publishing a beer menu for it in 2026 — a documented span of well over a decade and a half that never yields a founding year, an attendance figure or a street address. Its focus on Inland Northwest breweries and cideries gives the tasting a regional identity, and its gondola-included ticket makes the mountain itself part of what admission buys.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does the event’s real name differ from the title at the top of this page?
Because the published record uses a different form: organiser, chamber, ski-areas and magazine layers all print “Brewsfest” as one word, and a 2019 destination layer styles it “BrewsFest”. No layer prints “Brews Fest” as two words, and none adds the word “Festival”, so the title’s spaced form matches no published layer.
What exactly does the 2026 ticket bundle together?
According to the organiser-derived copy carried in the 2026 chamber newsletter layer, the ticket includes a scenic gondola ride, entry to the event, a tasting mug and six drink tickets. Additional drink tickets can be purchased at the event, and those extra tickets are the one component purchase in the record; combo and youth tickets are variants of the same admission.
How do the combo and youth variants change the 2026 price?
The combo ticket, which includes mountain biking, costs sixty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents in advance and seventy-three dollars and ninety-seven cents on the day of the event. Youth tickets for ages four to twenty cost twenty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents in advance and thirty-four dollars and ninety-five cents on the day. The standard ticket, for comparison, is forty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents in advance and fifty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents on the day; no other year’s price is published in the layers read.
Has a crowd size for any edition ever been published?
No spectator attendance figure is published in any layer read. The numbers that do appear — twenty brewers in the circa-2010 calendar billing, twenty-two breweries and four cideries in one 2019 layer, more than two dozen breweries and cideries in another — count the producers pouring at the event, not the people drinking.
What to Expect From the Next Shoshone County Idaho Brews Fest Festival
How often is Shoshone County Idaho Brews Fest Festival held?
The documented editions in the layers read fall in August: 14 August circa 2010, 17 August 2019, 13 August 2022 and 8 August 2026. The circa-2010 edition was billed as a seventeenth annual, which speaks of a yearly rhythm in the event’s own billing, but the layers consulted do not document an edition for every year in between.
When is the next Shoshone County Idaho Brews Fest Festival?
The latest edition documented in the layers read is the one set for Saturday 8 August 2026, with a published beer menu of Inland Northwest breweries and cideries in the organiser layers. No later edition is announced in any layer consulted for this article, so no date beyond 8 August 2026 can be given from the record.
Will the dates change?
They already have, within August. The documented editions fall on 14 August circa 2010, 17 August in 2019, 13 August in 2022 and 8 August in 2026, so the day of the month has moved by more than a week across the record while the month itself has stayed constant. Nothing in the layers read fixes a permanent date, and a future edition could land on a different August day again.
Closing Note
Brewsfest, as the record presents it, is a one-word name on a mountaintop: a resort-run tasting above Kellogg, reached by gondola, documented in fragments from a circa-2010 seventeenth-annual billing to a full 2026 beer menu. With Wallace kept as the county seat, the billing kept as a billing, and the counts kept as counts of brewers rather than crowds, this article is everything the published layers support, and nothing they do not.
