ALE-FEST IS HELD AT THE FESTHALLE IN DOWNTOWN LEAVENWORTH. The Leavenworth Ale-Fest is Leavenworth’s first beer festival. The inaugural festival took place on back in April 2007. Since then, it has grown each year into what it is today. A fun event that inspires competition for breweries, food booths and more. Always held in the Leavenworth Festhalle in downtown Bavarian Leavenworth, it is the ideal setting to experience award winning beer, great music and dancing. Breweries participate from all over the country. The festival also features food from some of Leavenworth’s best restaurants and catering companies. Most important, the fest raised monies to benefit the non-profit Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum. An integral and very important part of the Leavenworth community.