Sebring Soda Festival 2024: Details & Full Schedule

The festival is around Circle Park Drive in historic downtown Sebring. It is an outdoor event, so be sure to pack your sunscreen, umbrella, and anything else you might need.

The Sebring Soda Festival 2024 is the first weekend in April.

Saturday, April 6: 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday, April 7: 11 am to 4 pm

And that’s it. This year, instead of being a three-day festival like it has been in the past, it’s only two days.

The full schedule of events happening during the festival are listed below (after this FAQ section).

Yes! Well, most of it is free anyway.

The main part of the festival, when the actual soda tasting takes place, is a mix. You can come, hang out, and check out the music and vendors for free.

You’ll have to pay $10 for a Kids Zone Activities Armband (per day/per person). It also includes face painting. If an adult wants to ride with a child, the adult must have a wristband as well.

You also have to buy a punch card in order to taste the sodas. The soda tasting ticket costs range from $6 to $20 depending on the number of tastings.

They range from $6 to $20 depending on how many tastings you want. You get 8 tastings for $6, 24 for $15, or 48 tastings for $25. You can purchase the soda tasting tickets ahead of time here.

There are countless unique sodas to taste (like, over 200!), so even though 48 sounds like a lot, you’ll still have to be a little picky. That sounds hard, if you ask me.

There will be traditional sodas, so of course, I would skip those. Anything you can get in a local store would get a pass from me. But there are a ton of unique sodas like Cicero’s Peach Cobbler, Bacon Cream Sodas (OMG!), and Caramel Apple (yes, please!).

And — AND — there will be Triple XXX Root Beers. Which, small side note, is served at the Triple XXX Root Beer Drive-In restaurant I went to last year in Issaquah, Washington. There used to be a ton all over the country, but there is only one left in the country.

Honestly, I’m not sure. But I do know that a ton of soda makers I’ve never heard of will be there, like Sprecher Brewing Company from Glendale, WI.

There will also be small brands that you may know, like North Carolina’s Cheerwine and one of my favorites from my home state of New York: Boylan Bottling Company.

Nope. All three days will have vendors, live entertainment, food trucks, and more.

As long as your pet is on a leash, he or she is allowed at the craft soda festival.

We work many farmers’ markets over the season where dogs are invited, so I feel like I need to add “well behaved pets” are invited. (Side note: I wrote that sentence in this post in 2019, and the Sebring Soda Festival FAQ page literally added “well behaved pets” in 2020, so if you ever wanted to see me make change in this world, there you go.)

If you know your pet is skittish around people or other animals, you should probably leave him or her at home.

Yes! You’re encouraged to bring your camera (still or video) and take photos of the event. Share them on social media with the hashtag #SebringSodaFest.

Yes, lawn chairs are allowed and even encouraged. That’s a great way to sit and enjoy the music and your drinks.

At the Blues N Brews Festival in Fayetteville, NC a few years ago, we saw someone who also had a small folding camping table (like a captain’s chair, with a bag, but in table form). We immediately bought one and it is so handy. So, if you do plan to sit and sip your sodas, pick up one of these. Ours has cup holders, so it’s perfect.