Busch Gardens Bier Fest Walkaround 2019 - Day One with Food Photos! Photos

The 2019 Bier Fest at Busch Gardens, Tampa is set on a walking trail loop around the Bier Garten dining location.

The festival Welcome Booth is located directly across from the giant Beer Sign at the start of the walking trail. This is a great place to purchase a Sampler Lanyard.

Here's what a Sampler Lanyard looks like. This one has ten entitlements. When you get a food or beverage sample at a booth, they will punch out one of the numbers with a hole puncher (and scan the bar code on the back of the card, because you know... everything is computerized).

The Malt & Mill kiosk is a beverage-only location that features 8 different beers and ales.

The Best Bites location is where you'll find some hush-puppy sized poppables, like Bacon Mac & Cheese Bites, and one of our favorites, the Ruben Croquettes. A great treat is the dipping sauces that come with the bites... you get a choice of Basil Parmesan Mayo, Sweet & Hot Mustard, and Maple-Bacon Honey Mustard.

The Reuben Croquettes contain corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut! (They're much prettier like this, than when you bite into them... but they are oh so good.) Pictured here with a Basil Parmesan Mayo Dipping Sauce.

The Tacos On Tap booth features... Tacos!!! There's Shrimp Tacos, Smoked Brisket Tacos, Jerk Chicken Tacos, and Portabello Mushroom Tacos!

The Smoked Brisket Taco is full of Smoked Brisket, a Citrus Chipottle BBQ Sauce, Shredded Pepper Jack Cheese and Crispy Jalapeno Strips on a Corn Tortilla.

The Go For The Grain booth is located really close to the main event entrance (aka the beginning of the "loop"). They offer 6 different beers and 2 wines.

Here's a Crenache Cinsault Rose (wine) and a Hefeweizen (beer) sample that we got from the Go For The Grain Booth. It's a little hard to tell because of the different shapes of glasses, but my gut feeling is there might be a little more beer in the beer sample glasses than the wine sample glasses... but that's not unreasonable.

The merchandise booths aren't named, but instead, have the Busch Gardens logo on top of them. There's also no menu board out front. :)

These full-sized schooners are pretty cool and can be found in the festival merchandise kiosks.

It's hard to walk by the Best Bites booth and not pickup a hot order of Bacon Mac and Cheese Bites!

The Tulip & Thistle booth offers up four really cool (pun) frozen drinks... a Jack N' Coke, Frozen Hard Lemonade (which is really green), and two Frozen Sangrias.

Here's a Frozen Rose Sangria from the Tulip & Thistle booth. The consistency on this particular occasion... was perfect! Oh soooo good and thirst quenching on a hot day!

You can't miss the main performance stage! There's a couple of standing tables in front of the stage which is located between two really great kiosks... Melted Munchies and Sip N' Sliders.

On the day we visited, "Dana and Sharon" were performing... a really great cover band duo.

The Melted Munchies kiosk is one of the longer booths.

Here's the Short Rib & Brie Melt featuring shaved Short Rib, Brie Cheese & Caramelized Onions... all served on a toasted roll with a Creamy Horseradish Sauce.

The Sip N' Sliders booth hits a home run this year with the Bison Burger, Schnitzelwich Slider, Bratwurst Slider, and Flourless Chocolate Torte. If you could only eat at one booth... Either this one, or the Tacos On Tap booth would get my vote!

Vegetarians look away! Bison Patties doing their thing on a super hot grill. We love seeing on-stage cooking areas because you know you're getting something hot, fresh, and (more or less) made to order!

Mmmmmm.... Bison Burger features Grilled Bison on a Pretzel Roll with Provolone Cheese, and Bacon & Onion Marmalade.

For dessert... how about a hard float? Pictured here... a hard Coffee Float with Pabst Blue Ribbon Hard Coffee served over Chocolate Soft Serve Ice Cream.

Back over at the Sip N' Sliders booth, the Flourless Chocolate Torte is served with Guinness-infused Whipped Cream. This is one dense, creamy, dark chocolate dessert item!