Agoura Hills has one weekend a year when the whole town ends up in the same place at the same time, and it starts October 2. The 22nd Annual Reyes Adobe Days runs Friday through Sunday at the Reyes Adobe Historical Site on Rainbow Crest Drive, and if you've lived here a while, you already know the rhythm: a ticketed Friday night for the adults, a Saturday parade and festival for everyone, a Sunday morning run for the early risers. What's changed this year isn't the schedule. It's the beer garden, and it's worth paying attention to, because it tells you something about Agoura's bar scene that the city calendar doesn't spell out.
What the Pour List Used To Say
For years, the beer garden at Reyes Adobe Days ran on a familiar local pairing. Last October's 21st annual festival poured from Ladyface Brewery and Tavern Tomoko, the same two names that showed up on the lineup in past seasons. That combination was reliable enough that you could count on it the way you count on the petting zoo showing up for the kids.
This year's official festival rundown lists a single name in the beer garden: Malibu Brewing Company. No Ladyface. No Tavern Tomoko. Malibu Brewing is also the named presenting sponsor of Friday's Night at the Adobe, the 21-and-over evening of live music, food, and art at the historical site.
One sponsor swap on one festival weekend wouldn't mean much on its own. But it lines up with something else moving in town.
| Beer garden pours | |
|---|---|
| 2025 (21st annual) | Ladyface Brewery, Tavern Tomoko |
| 2026 (22nd annual) | Malibu Brewing Company |
The Same Name Is Showing Up on Agoura Road
A Local Buzz update earlier this year reported that Malibu Brewing Company is planning a spring 2026 opening at 29281 Agoura Road, at Kanan. That address is the former home of both Tavern Tomoko and Ladyface Alehouse. Two names that used to anchor the same stretch of Agoura Road are giving way to one, and that one is now also the name on the festival's pour list.
If you've walked or driven past that spot on Agoura Road recently and wondered what was happening behind the windows, this is the answer. It also means the beer garden change at Reyes Adobe Days isn't a scheduling quirk. It's the same shift showing up twice in one year, once at the town's signature weekend and once on a commercial strip most residents pass on the way to Whizin or the 101.
None of this is a knock on what came before. Ladyface has poured in this town for a long time, and Tavern Tomoko had its regulars. It's simply what's actually changing in Agoura Hills right now, and the festival happens to be where you can see it first.
The Weekend, Broken Into Three Actual Days
Residents who treat Reyes Adobe Days as one long blur miss the fact that each day does something different.
Friday, October 2, 6 to 9 p.m. Night at the Adobe. This is the 21-and-over ticketed portion, held in the adobe's courtyard rather than a rented hall. Advance tickets are listed at $20 with no added fees. The setting is the actual 1850s adobe and grounds, not a parking lot with string lights, which is most of what makes the $20 price tag feel like a deliberate choice rather than a discount.
Saturday, October 3. The parade steps off around 10 a.m., running roughly a mile from the intersection of Reyes Adobe Road and Lake Lindero Drive down to the historical site. The festival itself follows through the day, built around this year's Community Harvest theme, with live music, pony rides, a petting zoo, food trucks, and artisan vendors set up around the park.
Sunday, October 4, 9 a.m. The RAD 5K starts and finishes at Whizin Market Square, 28914 Roadside Dr. A kids' mile follows at 9:45 a.m. with medals for every finisher. A share of the proceeds benefits the Malibu/Lost Hills Search and Rescue Team, the volunteer unit that responds to calls on Ladyface Mountain, in Cheeseboro Canyon, and along the Backbone Trail.
Because the run starts and ends at Whizin, you can park once, run, and walk straight to breakfast without moving the car. That's a small thing, but it's the kind of small thing that makes a Sunday morning actually work.
Getting There Without Losing Twenty Minutes
The event footprint closes Rainbow Crest Drive between Reyes Adobe Road and Jon Dodson Drive for the weekend, with access to that stretch available through Lake Lindero Drive instead. The parade route itself runs along Reyes Adobe Road, so plan your arrival either ahead of the 10 a.m. step-off or after the road reopens once the parade clears. If you're driving in from the Kanan side, Lake Lindero Drive is your workaround for the whole weekend, not just parade hour. The city's Reyes Adobe Historical Site page is the place to confirm exact closure times before you leave the house, since festival logistics can shift in the final week.
The Building Under All of It
It's easy to treat the adobe as scenery for the festival rather than the reason for it. The house itself dates to 1850 and was built by Jose Paulino Reyes, whose family's roots in this exact ground go back to an 1837 land grant to his grandfather Juan Francisco Reyes, a soldier on the Portola expedition. The City of Agoura Hills bought the site from Los Angeles County in 1983 and has run it since as a museum and cultural center.
That history is available beyond festival weekend, too. The adobe, its barn, and its small museum are open for self-guided tours on the third Tuesday of every month starting at 10 a.m. It's a fifteen-minute walk-through, and if the crowds and the beer garden aren't your scene, that quieter Tuesday morning is the better way to actually see the building the whole weekend is named for.
Why This Weekend Is Worth Watching Beyond the Fun
Reyes Adobe Days works as a festival because it gives the town a reason to show up on the same patch of ground once a year. This year it's also doing something quieter: showing you, in real time, which local business is expanding its footprint in Agoura Hills. When the name pouring the beer at your town's biggest weekend is the same name that just took over a storefront on Agoura Road, that's not trivia. That's a preview of what your Agoura Road drive is going to look like by summer.
If you're the kind of resident who likes knowing what's changing in this town before it shows up on a for-sale sign or a grand-opening banner, that's exactly the kind of local read Happy SoCal Homes keeps an eye on. Reach out anytime you want a second set of eyes on what's actually happening in Agoura Hills, this weekend or any other.
