Welcome
Welcome to the Warren County Prime Beef Festival. Our carnival is held each year the Wednesday through Saturday following Labor Day. The Princess Pageant event preceeds this on the prior Saturday night as does the Festival Swine show on the Tuesday night before our official Wednesday 5 PM kick-off Parade. See the Calendar section for a full listing of events, dates and times.
Festival Info Trailer Phone number:
(309) 734-7366
(manned evenings only)
Stage Entertainment
Payup Band, Surprisingly Hip and a brand new Al Hull production: Elvi-Beetle will appear on stage @ PBF 2009. Along with the animal scrambles plenty of parking and access to the festival grounds this is all FREE to the public...
Strongman
Are you the Strongest Man in Warren County?
Well George Ewalt and Adam Repp are the undisputed Strongest Man and Fire Fighter in Warren County. And that fact will remain so until one of you attempt to topple them come next Festival.
Thank you for your support Friday September 11th at 7 PM for the 1st Annual Harold Taylor Memorial Prime Beef Festival Challenge.
Backyard BBQ Cook-Off
NEW! Thank you to all the businesses that featured in the Beef Cookoff Tent
Wednesday - County Market serving FREE samples
Thursday - Battle of the Banks Burger cook-off challenge
Friday - Warren County Cattlemen FREE samples
Saturday featured the Prime Beef Festival Cook-Off in a the new Backyard BBQ format. Ray Brodrick was our winner in Overall & Audience categories. Now it is time for you too to practice then bring your own grill and show us what you've got come 2010!
Webcam
PBF 2009 Live Webcams R Here 4 UWe hope you enjoyed our web cam coverage this season but honestly we hope more you did not cause you were with us in person. As always we are working up our digital photos as well and storing them on our personal web server here at www.eWestIL.net/PBF/. It will be a few more days to catch up and get it all listed there. For those who were with us in person then this is a better deal and if you have some shots of your own you wish to donate then contact us above on how to get them sent over for sharing with our own. Thanks all, it was fun.