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Festivals. Festivals. Festivals. There are so many craft beer festivals! Some with barrels, some at race tracks, and one to help with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. So which should you do? The Weekend Picks.
Friday night, take some time to help out your neighbors in New Jersey, while enjoying some fine craft beers. Starting at 7:00PM at the Park Avenue Club in Florham Park, NJ, Save Our Shores (SOS) will feature craft beer and food pairings with 100% of the profits going directly to American Red Cross Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.
Bayfront Stadium in Pensacola, FL will be filled with excited beer fans this Saturday as they partake in the Pensacola Kraft Bier Festival . Over 100 craft beers, fireworks, a car show, and live entertainment, and a chance to win a car? Count us in.
Make your way out to the Belmont Racetrack in Long Island this weekend to join in on the International Great Beer Expo. Tickets are only $45 and you will get unlimited 5 oz pours. What better way to enjoy a day at the track, then getting completely soused with hundreds of people and 50 international brewers.
Are you interested in Wood and Barrel Aged beers? Then take a drive over to Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer at the Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago. Enjoy the unique flavor of craft beers that have been aged in contact whiskey, bourbon or wine barrels.
Weekend Beer Pick
Rogue Ales has introduced their first Rye Ale: Chatoe Roguenbier. Grown on the Rogue Farm in Independence, Oregon, Roguenbeir is brewed from rye harvested just this summer. A new beer from an old faithful.
Serious Film Pick: Should you see sparkly vampires, a Russian story set to Keira Knightly, or a movie about Bobby DeNiro’s hate of his son’s girlfriend? Well, none of the above. Go see Daniel Day-Lewis’s masterful portrayal of the 16th President of the United States. Go see Lincoln.
