Overview The Good Beer Festival is Wicomico County's two-day craft beer festival in Pemberton Historical Park in Salisbury, Maryland, and its Friday session is, by the festival's account, the only nighttime beer festival on the Eastern Shore. A drinking ticket buys unlimited tastings of about 100 craft beers from across the country, and local breweries pour in their own Local Beer Garden. The festival bills itself as the largest craft beer festival on the Eastern Shore. Wicomico County Recreation, Parks and Tourism runs it. On site The 2026 pour list ran past 50 breweries, cideries and wineries, from Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, Founders and Stone to Burley Oak, Heavy Seas and Union Craft. Between pours there are duck races, oversized card games, pop darts, yard pong, putt-putt golf and a chainsaw artist carving live, and in 2026 a Goat Lounge let guests drink beside a mobile petting farm's goats with beer samples of their own. The stage runs DJ sets and bands with a Minute to Win It round, an adult spelling bee and a pizza-eating contest won by the first person to finish a whole pie. Food and craft vendors from around the Eastern Shore line the park. Blankets and chairs are welcome; pop-up tents are not. Audience It is a regional crowd that settles in. The festival counts 74% of its guests from the Eastern Shore, 13% from elsewhere in Maryland and 13% from out of state, and 77% spend the entire day at the festival. Tickets are good for one day with no re-entry, and children 3 and up come in on non-drinking tickets. Brand presence Sponsorship runs in levels from Master Brewer, which carries presenting rights and a 20-by-20 vendor space, down through Glass, Partner and Beer Tap, each with a 10-by-10 space, an entrance banner, complimentary tickets and event T-shirts. The level benefits include the company logo on the tasting glasses, on the festival's TV and video ads and on its website. Le Daisey's Smokehouse, For Shore Bargains, Davis Bowen and Friedel and Pepsi appeared as sponsors on the festival site.