5th Annual Beer in the Woods,

About the event

The 5th Annual Beer in the Woods is the best beer and nature festival in the Chicagoland area! The main event takes place on Saturday, September 25, 1 - 6 p.m., at  LaBagh Woods - a haven for birders and nature enthusiasts - on the northwest side of Chicago. Take a stroll through the woods on a guided bird walk, learn about snakes while one slithers up your arm, participate in a flash bioblitz (don’t worry – you’ll learn what that is!), and drink some of the region’s most delicious craft beer and cider. All this and much, much more!

This year we’ll also have a week-long virtual festival leading up to Saturday’s event! Starting Monday, September 20 through Friday, September 24, we’ll offer a virtual program each night from 6 - 7 p.m. Learn about the natural world, enjoy beer with a brewmaster, and even find some inner peace with a virtual yoga class. The virtual festival is perfect for folks who can’t make it to Saturday’s event and for diehards who can’t get enough Beer in the Woods!

Why should you sponsor?

You’re making the world a better place by helping to ensure that land, water, and life will always thrive in the forest preserves! Friends of the Forest Preserves unites people to protect, promote, and care for the forest preserves in Cook County. All proceeds from Beer in the Woods will be used by Friends to support our advocacy work, Conservation Corps programs, and community engagement initiatives.

The Beer in the Woods community is active, loyal, and motivated to make choices that improve the health of all living creatures. Sponsors will benefit from reaching this educated and inspired demographic.

Ilana Federman

Friends of the Forest Preserves unites people to protect, promote, and care for the forest preserves in Cook County. 

As the only independent nonprofit organization solely focused on the forest preserves in Cook County, we work tirelessly to safeguard and improve the 70,000 acres of forest preserves for all of us and generations to come. 

Founded in 1998 by a small group of concerned citizens, the Friends community is now a force of thousands working together to ensure that land, water, and life will always thrive in the forest preserves.

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