🐝Evansville Buzz | June 19-21: Haubstadt Sommerfest 2025

🍺 Haubstadt Sommerfest: Where Bier, Brats & Brilliant Chaos Collide

📍 Downtown Haubstadt, IN
🗓️ June 19–21

If small-town America hosted the Olympics for partying, Haubstadt Sommerfest would be a gold medalist in Beer Endurance, Parade Precision, and Deep-Fried Willpower.

This isn't just a street festival. It's a chaotic symphony of Sati Babi, carnival lights, shout-singing to '80s cover bands, and raising serious cash for parks, scholarships, and local causes. And whether it's your first time or your fifteenth, here's your cheat sheet to Sommerfest like a local:

🎟️ Tips to Sommerfest Like a Legend

Get There Early – You’re not beating the beer line, but you might snag a good parking spot before everyone else shows up with lawn chairs strapped to a John Deere.

Come Hungry – Fried fish sandwiches, corn dogs, Sati Babi, ice cream. It’s not just a menu—it’s a lifestyle. Food into the Bierstube? Yes. Beer out of the Bierstube? Don’t even try it.

Cash & ID Are Required – No card readers. No excuses. And no ID = no beer = no joy.

Beer Economy 101 – Buy tickets. Trade tickets for beer, wine coolers, or pitchers. It’s adult Chuck E. Cheese, but the prizes are buzzier.

BYOK (Bring Your Own Koozie) – Want to look like a local? Don't fist a naked can. That's just disrespectful.

Respect the Midnight Shutdown – At 12:00 AM sharp, the music dies and vendors start packing up. But some stands like Haubstadt Little League and Sati Babi will still hook you up on the way out.

Plan a Safe Ride – Whether your mom drops you off or your cousin’s golf cart becomes your Uber, just get home safe.

Remember the Cause – You’re not just partying. You’re supporting playgrounds, scholarships, libraries, and local nonprofits. Drink generously (but responsibly), knowing your buzz is for a cause.

🏃‍♂️ Laufenfest 5K: Run First, Bier Later

🗓️ Saturday, June 21st, 2025
Before the beer flows and the brats hit the grill, the streets of Haubstadt fill with sneakers, strollers, and determined midwesterners powered by sheer will and questionable electrolytes.

Now in its 20+ year, the Laufenfest 5K is a Sommerfest tradition for runners, walkers, and everyone who wants to earn their beer the German way.

Also includes the adorable ‘Lil Dutch Run for the tiny humans. (Trust us, nothing gets a crowd going like a 5-year-old sprinting in the streets of Haubstadt.)

🎈 The Parade: Candy, Chaos & Clowns on Tractors

🗓️ Saturday, June 21 | Parade at 1:00 PM (Lineup @ 10:45 AM)
📍 Downtown Haubstadt
🎭 Theme: “Service, the Heart of Our Community”

This parade is not your average fire truck-and-float affair. It's got:

• Antique tractors

• Clowns in high-vis vests

• Beer-can koozies

• Meat-powered floats from Dewig Meats

• Guys in tutus riding hay bales

• Enough candy to launch a neighborhood-wide sugar crash

🏆 Categories for trophies include:

• Floats

• Antique & Classic Cars

• Custom Trucks

• Commercial Entries

• Tractors

• The coveted Special Sommerfest Award

🎸 Bierstube Band Lineup

🎶 Live on the Main Stage, every night 8 PM–Midnight:
• Thursday – Brad Lemmons
• Friday – Happy New Month
• Saturday – That’s What She Said

It doesn’t matter if you’re dancing with a drink or just vibing in your folding chair, the Bierstube’s got the soundtrack to your weekend glory.

🐝 Final Buzz

Whether you’re running the 5K in a cloud of powdered sugar, dodging candy at the parade, or trading beer tickets like crypto in the Bierstube—just remember: pace yourself, hug a stranger in lederhosen, and for the love of Dewig, don’t forget your koozie.

Because in Haubstadt, the beer is cold, the music’s loud, and the memories come with mustard stains.

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Top Instagram moment? Running the 5K at 8 AM, beer in hand by noon, parade candy in your pocket by 1, and koozied up at midnight. Now that’s a Haubstadt triathlon.

Stay local. Stay weird. Stay buzzin’.
— The Buzz Team✌️