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The popularity of drinks festivals is immense. People pack events like the Great American Beer Festival because they are great places to sample a huge range of new brands and reacquaint one's self with old favorites. There are a number of events coming up that are worth attending. Here are just a few:
Whiskey Fest in Chicago, April 4: The folks at Malt Advocate bring together 200 of the world's finest, rarest, and most expensive, single malt and blended Scotch, Irish, Bourbon, Tennessee, Japanese, Welsh, Canadian and other whiskies from around the world for one night. General admission tickets for the event are $110 and you can get early admission VIP entry for just $150. Besides all of the whiskey, you will also find sipping rums, Tequila and beer. During the evening a number of seminars are held with distillery representatives taking guests through sensory experiences while providing history, humor and hard to find samples of great whiskey. read more »
I live in Colorado so don't need suggestions on local stuff. My list so far is:
Jolly Pumpkin
Lost Abbey
3 Floyds
Russian River
Pizza Port
Allagash
Ommegang
I am a huge Belgian fan. Any breweries that specialize in Belgians that I missed?
Thanks all.
It seems rather silly for the Democratic Party to even hold a convention, since they already know who their candidate will be. But they can't resist holding a taxpayer-funded party anyway. At least the local breweries in and around Denver are getting a piece of the action: read more »
I copied & pasted this pic from the Brookston Beer Bulletin , as I didn't take any of my own - thanks! Perhaps youve heard the tale of how AVERY BREWING of Colorado and RUSSIAN RIVER BREWING of California both made a beer called SALVATION , and in mock indignation decided to collaborate rather than litigate this budding controversy, thereby producing an excellent beer called COLLABORATION, NOT LITIGATION . Its essentially a mash-up of the two SALVATIONS , and not only is it excellent, its s read more »