“Top four Southern California craft beer festivals worth the drive” – Los Angeles Times
- OCWeekly: A Look at Firkfest 2019:
- OrangeCoast Magazine: “Firkfest it is the last true and honest beer festival left in Orange County.”
- OCMomBlog: Epic Beer and Nachos Date Day!
- Review, Fullerton Foundry
- Preview, Beerandbaking.com
- Preview, OCWeekly
- Preview, LAWeekly
- Preview, LATimes
- Preview, OCRegister
- Food GPS – “Avoiding the sophomore slump was no problem for Greg Nagel of OC Beer Blog.”
- LA Wonders – “Unexpectedly the best beer festival in OC.”
- A Punk, an Army and an Empty Stomach – Recap
- LAWeekly recap from Erika Bolden
- Los Angeles Times
- FoodGPS recap
- Craftbeerhound Video recap
- AmericanCraftBeer recap
- CaskAleLA top 10
- Beer Search Party recap
- Beers in Paradise recap
- Fixed Gear Beer Crew recap
- Chase Craft Beer recap
- A Punk, A Camera and an Empty Stomach recap
- Photoset from John Holzer of New Brew Thursday (bonus writeup)
- JustAnotherBeerBlog photoset w/comments
- Bernie Wire Friends of Local beer photoset