🎵 Live Music 🥓 Beer, Bacon, BBQ, & Booze Competitions 🏆 Awards
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Long Beach/HARPER MCCAUGHAN TOWN GREEN
Downtown Long Beach at the intersection of Jeff Davis Avenue and 3rd Street. The event is outside - full stage with live music, more fun, & just a great time! This is an event wrapped in Bacon along with BBQ & Burger, and all types of food tastings along with Beer, Cocktails, Chocolate & so much more!!
Expect a Beer & food lover's dream lineup of food tastings, craft beer tastings from local and regional breweries, along with Mississippi Distilleries & so much more! Along with giving out 2 Golden Tickets this year, there will be People's Choice Awards, live music Saturday night on the Island View Casino/Long Beach Stage at 5 pm, arts & crafts vendors plus VIP experiences you'll talk about for months. This is a great marketing event, and the main Fundraiser for Mississippi Heroes, so your support goes a long way to the mission of supporting family, professional, and community caregivers across Mississippi while building wheelchair ramps for those in need.
Don't just taste and watch - jump into the fun! From cooking competitions to the Chili Cookoff Showdown, there's a way for everyone to compete, win prizes, and be part of the festival excitement.
Get In On The Action!
GOLDEN TICKET & PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS
We will have Bacon, Barbecue, & Burger Golden Tickets. We will also have People's Choice with trophies for all who are part of this fundraiser. The Golden Ticket winners receive entry to compete in the World Food Championships - it is our commitment to our Gulf Coast Chef's and Restaurants. Trophies will be hand-made by Steve Barney with a grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission.
BACON, BBQ, Burger, BEER, chocolate & COCKTAIL COMPETITIONS (Restaurants AND OTHER VENDORS)
Professional and amateur divisions for the best drinks & food creations on the Gulf Coast with People's Choice Awards and opportunity to walk away with a Golden Ticket to the World Food Championships in Indianapolis with opportunity to win Grand Prize of over $100,000.
Festival attendees vote for their favorites across multiple categories - Best Brew, Best Home Brew, Best Bacon, BBQ & Burger creations, best booth, crowd favorite, and more.
CHILI COOK-OFF SATURDAY NIGHT
Join the Chili Cookoff right along our local 1st Responders. In 2027 we will bring back the First Responders Chili Cookoff with funds going to the 1st Responders Grant Program to help offset financial needs. OF NOTE: This will be an outside event with limited electricity. Bring your own setup, tent & supplies (but let us know if you need help and we will take care of it for you).
Every sip and every bite goes toward building wheelchair ramps, celebrating unsung caregiving heroes, and keeping our Gulf Coast community lifted. We are also starting a 1st Responders Grant Program that we will be kicking off in 2026.
Beer & Bacon Fest is the largest fundraiser for Mississippi Heroes, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting family caregivers across Mississippi. In 2025, we raised $45,000 with this event and built 45+ ramps. This year, we're aiming even bigger.
