Jack's Abby Welcomes Spring With Maifest 2025 In Framingham

FRAMINGHAM, MA — Break out your dirndls and lederhosen, Jack's Abby is celebrating the arrival of spring German style.

The Framingham-based brewery will host its annual Maifest celebration over the weekend of May 16, bringing the celebration across three days on Clinton Street.

Maifest is a traditional German festival to celebrate the beginning of spring and is the counterpart to the legendary Oktoberfest celebration.

Jack’s Abby's annual celebration includes traditions like cask tapping, decorating the Maypole with colorful ribbons and flowers, live music, dancing and a Maifest King and Queen competition.

Both the kitchen at Jack's Abby and the brewers are also hard at work on bringing unique specials and beer releases to the occasion.

Menu additions that reflect the festival’s roots in German communities will include pork knuckle with German potato salad and sauerkraut, German chocolate cake, potato pancakes, cheesy spaetzle and Flammkuchen pizza.

Three beer hall exclusives will also be released for Maifest, including a Festbier lager, Maifest, a take on a traditional Helles Bock and the Ratskeller Kellerbier. The latter is an "insiders’ lager named after underground bars of Germany. It’s unfiltered, golden and brewed for the people," brewery officials said.

Maifest will be held on the Jack's Abby patio at 100 Clinton St. starting at noon from May 16 to 18. In the event of rain, the celebration will move inside.