Tickets for the 2015 All Colorado Beer Festival officially go on sale next week, but – through midnight on Labor Day – organizers are offering a “super special early bird” package for the November 7 event at Mortgage Solutions Financial Services Center in Colorado Springs.

The deal includes two general admission tickets and one designated driver ticket for $50, a discount of $40 off regular prices, said Randy Dipner, assistant director of the festival.

“We’re offering up to 200 of these discounted tickets per session, afternoon and evening. If people are interested in really saving money, this is the chance to do it – the only chance,” he said.

About 70 Colorado brewers have signed on to pour at the ninth annual festival, which showcases the state’s craft beer makers while raising money for area nonprofits, including TheatreWorks, the Empty Stocking Fund, Home Front Cares and the ACBF Scholarship Fund at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Also new this year: Organizers decided to do away with the VIP entry option and instead will offer a very limited number of tickets that come with exclusive and behind-the-scenes access. Those include a $50 ticket to a separate brewers rendezvous on Friday, November 6, and a $65 “insider pass” that buys early entry and access to the brewers lounge during the festival. Ticket sales for the rendezvous will be capped at 25; likewise, only 25 insider passes will be sold for each of the festival’s two sessions.

“The rendezvous is new and unique and completely different. We think $50 for an evening of food and drink and visiting with the brewers is a pretty good deal and we think a lot of people would be interested in that,” said Dipner. “With the insider pass, you get early entry to the festival and a better chance to really get to know the brewers on a one-on-one basis. I hope that people will tell us if they think it’s worth it or not.”

The special access tickets – as well as general admission tickets, which start at $40 – go on sale 8 a.m. September 8, and “once they’re gone, they’re gone,” Dipner said.