Bacon and Beer Festival returns

Big news for bacon fans: Tickets for the 2016 Bacon and Beer Festival are currently on sale. The festival celebrating everyone's favorite combo returns for the fourth year on Nov. 6. 

Once again, restaurants will be serving up creative bacon-based plates made with 1732 Meats. Festival attendees will enjoy unlimited samples from more than 25 restaurants and 15 breweries.

Bacon samples provided by:

• The Blue Duck
• Brick and Mortar
• Bru Craft & Wurst
• U-Bahn
• Cafe Lift
• Cheu Noodle Bar
• Bing Bing Dim Sum
• City Tap House
• Craftsman Row
• Devil's Den
• Dos Tacos
• Drexel Food Lab
• Grubhouse
• Indeblue
• Iron Hill Chestnut Hill
• Kensington Quarters
• MilkBoy
• Prohibition Taproom
• Shake Shack
• SouthGate
• Standard Tap
• Taproom on 19th
• Twisted Tail
• Waffles & Wedges
• Wishbone Philly

Beer to wash down all that bacon provided by:

• 2nd Story Brewing
• Allagash
• Austin Eastciders
• Cape May Brewing
• Conshohocken Brewing
• Crime & Punishment Brewing
• Flying Fish
• Highway Manor Brewing
• Iron Hill Chestnut Hill
• Manayunk Brewing
• Penn Brewery
• Sly Fox
• St. Benjamin Brewing
• Two Roads
• Weyerbacher
• Yards

Only those 21-plus will be allowed at the event. Tickets are $50 for general admission or $85 for VIP. Proceeds will benefit MANNA.