2010
Great American Beer Festival 2010
You may have been to beer festivals in the past, but if you haven’t been to GABF, then you haven’t been the best! The Great American Beer Festival is held annually in Denver, Colorado and basically – it’s the world series of beer. The Super Bowl of beer. The olympics of beer. More than1,800 beers are available for sampling from any and everywhere you can imagine.
Tickets go on sale today 6/28/10 at 2 pm. There are 4 sessions over the course of the event for a 4 hours each evening – except Saturday during the day. Believe me, if you love beer – don’t miss this event.
The Great American Beer Festival – September 16-18, 2010
Colorado Convention Center – Denver, Colorado
www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com
Atlanta Summer Beerfest
Probably should have mentioned this a bit sooner. I’ve tried to get in touch with the organizers of this festival, but they have been playing hard to get. The Atlanta Summer Beerfest is tomorrow – 6/26/10 from 5-10 pm. Local breweries Sweetwater, Red Brick, and Terrapin will featured.
Here is the official info release:
The Atlanta Summer Beer Fest has been designed to be the coolest and most enjoyable beer fest that you will attend this year. We will be pouring 6 oz. tastings sizes, twice as much as most other beer festivals. We want you to enjoy your beer, not just taste it. If you ask nicely, we may even fill your cup. The Festival is from 5pm — 10pm, as the sun goes down and the temperature drops.
We also want you to have a good time, we will have Flip Cup, Beer Pong, and Cornhole for your enjoyment.
We are also bringing back the Dunking Booth. That’s right, here’s your chance to dunk someone who will either be good looking or annoying, maybe even both. All proceeds from the Dunking Booth will go to charity.
We have a great band playing music for you, Stokeswood. Check them out, we promise you’ll like them.
We have a great after party scheduled inside the Masquerade, with several fun bands. The after party is free with your festival admission.
Sponsors Include: Beer Connoisseur Magazine, Tower Beer, Wine, & Spirits, Greens, and Mac’s Beer & Wine.
Where: Masquerade Music Park
For Tickets Go Here to Xorbia Tickets – http://bit.ly/9opLuJ
Official Atlanta Summer Beerfest Site – http://bit.ly/baN7Xt
Pints at the Prado is Today!
Today is Beeer Connoisseur Magazines’s first beer festival, and its being held right here in Atlanta! If you don’t know about it – here is some quick info from the website. It’s probably too late to buy tickets online, so head for the door. Cheers!
Press Release
Beer Lovers Unite! Celebrate the start of summer at the First Annual Beer Connoisseur Festival!
EVENT WEBSITE: http://www.beerconnoisseurfest.com/
To purchase tickets to this event, please visit:
http://www.xorbia.com/tickets/bcfestival/
Mark your calendars craft beer fans. A very special extravaganza of world-class brews is coming to Atlanta on June 12th, 2010. Hosted by The Beer Connoisseur® Magazine, Taco Mac, 5 Seasons Brewing Company and restaurants of the The Prado enclave in north Atlanta, the first-ever Beer Connoisseur Festival (a.k.a. Pints at The Prado) will kick-off summer with a celebration of great American beer.
A selection of 150-plus brews hand picked from more than 40 world-class breweries — including big names like Allagash, Avery,Bell’s, Chimay, Dogfish Head, Rogue, Stone and Weihenstephan, as well as local favorites like SweetWater, Terrapin and Atlanta Brewing Company — will be poured, and there will be plenty of rare offerings available at the landmark event.
The festival, which will be covered in the magazine’s fall issue, doesn’t begin and end with just great beer, though. There will be live music, lots of great food and access to TV’s inside Taco Mac and 5 Seasons Brewing to catch all the FIFA World Cup action. Domestic beer and liquor drinks will be sold at an additonal charge.
So don’t wait until the last minute — a limited number of tickets are on sale now, and they won’t last long.
Brew at the Zoo 2010!
Brew at the Atlanta Zoo is just days away, and this year boasts and expanded beer selection. In the past, Brew at the Zoo spotlighted local Georgia beers – Sweetwater, Terrapin, Red Brick. This year, all three will return with company.
Joining the line up –
Full Sail – IPA, Pale Ale, Amber, Session Lager, Session Black, LTD 2
Southampton – Double White, Keller Pils, Altbier
Sierra Nevada – Pale Ale, Summerfest
Abita – Purple Haze, Jockamo, Restoration Pale
Leinenkugel – Summer Shandy, Berry Weiss, Sunset Wheat, Amber
Blue Moon Summer Ale
Tiger Beer
Also – 18 +/- wines and champagne.
This is a really fun event, boasting rare animal feedings, and locals bands. Interesting situation last year, while walking by the lion cage, a lion roared. Every human and animal froze in its tracks that was in earshot. Interesting nature reaction. That will sober you up!!
3rd Annual Brew at the Zoo – May 29th, 2010 5:30-9:30pm
Tickets are $40 and available HERE
Dunwoody Beer Fest 2010
Drinking for a good cause. That’s Dunwoody Beer Fest. 2010 marks the 9th year of it’s existence. It’s less than a week away – May 15th, 2010.
Dunwoody Beer Fest benefits Camp Twin Lakes, a not-for-profit organization that offers year-round recreational, therapeutic, and educational programs for children facing serious illnesses and other physical, emotional and life challenges. With its network of partners, Camp Twin Lakes provides life-changing experiences for thousands of children each year at its state-of-the-art, fully accessible facility, located on 500 acres in Rutledge, Georgia, and at other locations throughout the state.
Over the past 8 years, the fest has raised more than 185,000 dollars for this great cause. Here is a lineup of beers, or a least brewers for this year’s fest. (http://www.dunwoodybeerfest.com/beers.php)
Date – 5/15/10
Location – Parking Lot of Perimeter Mall
Cost – $30 dollars before, $35 day of. Tickets available through Xorbia Tickets HERE
Also – Atlanta band favorite – Yacht rock will be playing…
CASKS ALERT! @420 Fest!
One of favorite casks at Sweetwater’s Brew your Cask off was Cypress Street’s Knobzilla Vanilla. Wes Anderson, beer manager at Cypress was the lead brewer in this tasty concoction. It won the People’s Choice Award!
Well today – (4/18) Cypress Street’s Knobzilla Vanilla will be seen again in Atlanta – as a part of the special beer tasting at Sweetwater’s 420 Fest. The top 5 winners at Brew Your Cask Off will be featured alongside Knobzilla ,and 5 that Sweetwater has created for the event.
Casks tap in the Sweetwater tent @ 2pm! Not sure of the cost for these… Bring cash!! Take MARTA, parking sucks! See you at 2!
East Atlanta Beer Fest Tickets On Sale!
It’s that time again! Festival season. This morning brings the news of East Atlanta Beerfest tickets officially going on sale. As it was last year, there are general admission tickets, and VIP tickets. VIP gets you 1 hour early entrance, 12-15 beers not in general admin, special bathrooms, EABF bottle opener, special VIP tent access, even your own entrance to the festival. All for the low, low price of $55 dollars.
The proceeds of EABF benefit non profit organizations in East Atlanta. A few notables that benefited last year – YMCA after school programs, local schools, historic cemetery restorations, local park funding etc. Drinking beer does great things for your community!
WHAT ABOUT THE BEER??? Well, EABF features around 130 brewers from damn near everywhere. The lineup is currently being determined, so I will milk my inside sources for information and post soon. Either way, you’ll find a lot of great craft beer so its worth a trip.
You can also sign up on the EABF website to volunteer if you’d like. Signups begin April 9th, so head over to the EABF site then. There are benefits to volunteering!
So, thats the short, short version. Today is the day to secure your tickets. If I were you, I’d click HERE now!
Official Website – www.eastatlantabeerfest.com
