08/31/2026
🤩500+🤩
OVER 500 of you showed up!!! Our 2nd Annual Let There Be Light Beer Festival was even bigger than last year and would not have been possible without this incredible community and the people and organizations that helped to make it all happen!
☀️ Thank you to everyone who came out, supported, and celebrated with us, your enthusiasm made the day unforgettable.
☀️ To our amazing Wise I team, thank you for all your hard work behind the scenes, at the festival, and at the afterparty! You all make big ideas like this come to life.
☀️ To the awesome breweries and cideries who traveled to Le Mars to pour, we are so grateful you shared your beers and your passion with our community.
☀️ Huge thanks to the Le Mars Rotary for volunteering and keeping things running smoothly. You guys are seriously pros!
☀️ BIG SHOUTOUT to Fareway Stores Le Mars for generously donating ice, water, sandwiches and snacks for our brewers lounge, tees for our cannon, and even helping us with a quick tear-down.
☀️ American Bank for providing the coolest glassware for our VIP ticket holders!
☀️ Hometown Le Mars Heritage Foundation for providing the Water Monster and T-Shirt Cannon, both huge hits at the festival!
☀️ Wells Visitor Center and Ice Cream Parlor for providing free scoop certificates for our visiting breweries and cideries.
☀️ Patrick Sowl and Cassidy Pravecek, thank you for capturing the day from above with some epic photography.
☀️ Special thank you to Jackie Schlesser, Heidi Landsness, Nate Pauling, and Maggie Catton who didn't hesitate to help out where we needed it!
☀️GhostCat for making our afterparty even bigger than last year with great live music.
☀️ Le Mars Farmers Market we’re so grateful you shifted locations to give us the green space we needed.
☀️ Our awesome food trucks, Sonrisas Food Truck LLC, The Roadhouse and La Trailita, keeping everyone well fed and happy.
☀️Iowa Brewers Guild for their legislative advocacy and ongoing efforts to position Iowa as a craft beer destination, making festivals like these a success.
☀️ And to Classic Rock 99.5 for coming out and broadcasting live from the festival, you guys always support the craft beer community.
This year's festival blew past our expectations, and it’s all thanks to the community that surrounds us. Cheers to you! 🍻 Who is coming next year?!?
📷: Cassidy Pravecek & Patrick Sowl