Oklahoma City’s reliance on local craft beer is due in large part to COOP Ale Works’ rapid growth and expansion. COOP currently distributes to four states and brewed approximately 9,500 barrels of beer in 2015. All of which made COOP’s seventh anniversary cause to celebrate; over 1400 people agreed and bought tickets to the party.

Of the neighborhood festivals that dot the map and compete along the calendar, Plaza Fest anchored the fall with a charming take on the usual. The normal format of local beer-local food-art-music-no parking worked great, but Plaza Fest elevated that by introducing the Plaza Alley Walls mural project.