Valley Fever: Wasting Away in Lagerville

Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co.’s Buellton digs serve as basecamp for Lagerville 2025, perhaps the nation’s premier and largest craft lager festival, boasting more than 65 breweries from across the country pouring their best lagers – the bottom-fermented beer that’s brewed at a low temperature and aged to create a crisp, clean and refreshing quaff. In addition to unlimited tastings at the April 12 afternoon event, patrons can partake of live music with False Puppet, True Zion & DJ Peete, fulfilling food stuffs from local vendors, and mingling with the vibrant beer-loving community that still has an appetite for that once very popular style of beer. Visit figmtnbrew.com

‘Hard’ Times in Solvang

Elsewhere in the valley, A Hard Day’s Night – a Beatles tribute show that employs custom-tailored costumes (including three era-informed changes), vintage instruments, Liverpudlian dialect, scenes set by video backdrop and even the Feb Four’s familiar head bobs, toe taps and patter between songs – hunkers down at Solvang Festival Theater on Saturday, April 12. Visit https://solvangtheaterfest.org/show-details/hard-days-night