About the event
What is Brewing for a Cause?
We are a unique beer festival benefiting Animal Friends, a local non-profit companion animal resource center. Animal Friends helps rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home thousands of homeless pets, and provides affordable veterinary care, pet food assistance, and humane education to the Pittsburgh community.
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100+ homebrews
Homebrewed beers, ciders, and meads from club members, plus beers from great Pittsburgh-area craft breweries.
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Food on site
Cold Friends Kitchen will have food available for purchase.
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Raffle baskets
Pet gifts, beer, mead, and more from local businesses, with all proceeds going to Animal Friends.
Tickets
What Does My Ticket Include?
Included with your ticket
- Unlimited samples of every beer, cider, and mead being poured
- A branded Brewing for a Cause tasting glass
Sold separately
- Food from Cold Friends Kitchen
- Raffle tickets
- Merch
Please drink responsibly. Anyone who appears visibly intoxicated will no longer be served, per our Code of Conduct.
VIP or General Admission? Both include the same things. VIP gets you in an hour early, at 2:00 PM instead of 3:00 PM.
Designated drivers get in for $5 and can't drink any alcohol at the event.
Plan your visit
When and Where?
- Date
- Saturday, November 14th, 2026
- Times
- VIP: 2:00 PM
– 6:00 PM
General Admission: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM - Location
- Velum Fermentation
2120 Jane St
Pittsburgh, PA 15203 - [email protected]
The hosts
Who Are We?
Brewing for a Cause is hosted by Three Rivers Underground Brewers (TRUB), a longtime Pittsburgh homebrew club.
Brewing for a Cause is TRUB’s annual charity event, which is one of Pittsburgh’s longest running beer festivals. Now in our 18th year, we have helped raise approximately $350,000 donated entirely to charity.
- This year’s festival
- 18th
- Raised for charity
- ~$350K