BEND, OR -- The 2024 Bend Brewfest, scheduled for October is canceled. It was set to return to the Hayden Homes Amphitheater at the Old Mill for the first time since 2019. But organizers say there were “just too many hurdles” to put on the festival to their standards.

Those who pre-purchased mug and token packages will be automatically refunded, as will breweries who had already paid to participate.

Bend Brewfest was held annually at the amphitheater in August from 2003 until 2019. It was canceled in 2020 and '21, then a smaller two-day event took place in ‘22. It was again canceled last year due to construction and was supposed to return October fourth and fifth, 2024.

Organizers remain hopeful Brewfest, which has raised more than $150,000 for local nonprofits, will return in some form in the future. “We love this event, it’s something we’ve been honored to host over the past 20-plus years,” Beau Eastes, with teh Old Mill District, said in a statement, “And we’ll do everything in our power to see that it comes back in a safe, stable and sustainable form.”