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American Craft Beer Fest (ACBF)
Join us in Boston, this June 20 & 21, 2008 for the East Coast’s largest and most diverse celebration of American craft beer!

Featuring: 75 American brewers, 300 craft beers, guest speakers, and more!

Ticket Info
Advance tickets are $40 each, per session, and can be purchased online from Ticket Alternative or by calling them at (877) 725-8849; service fees apply. Ticket price includes:
Entry into one session; 21+ w/ valid ID
All 2oz beer tastings
Fest guide
Tasting cup
Access to beer education seminars
Fest Times
June 20, 2008 = 6-9:30pm (Friday)
June 21, 2008 = 1-4:30pm (Saturday)
June 21, 2008 = 6-9:30pm (Saturday)
Venue location:
Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Blvd in Boston, MA

Latest Updates
Beer List Posted! (American Craft Beer Fest)
Advanced tickets for the American Craft Beer Fest are now on-sale!
BeerAdvocate to Host the East Coast’s Largest American Craft Beer Fest
Much more to follow, so please visit often!

13th ANNUAL MAMMOTH FESTIVAL OF BEERS & BLUESAPALOOZA
August 1st and 2nd
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Mammoth Brewing Company Our Proud Sponsor
Welcomes Everyone To Mammoth Lakes!

Welcome to the 13th Annual Mammoth Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza! Once again we are proud to host a fantastic lineup of blues performers and over 50 of the top breweries in the country. This event has gained a reputation for being one of the best “blues and brews” festivals around and is held in the most beautiful venue in the world – Mammoth Lakes, California and the Eastern High Sierra!

Mammoth Brewing Company (MBC) is located at 8,000 feet in the heart of the Sierra and is fortunate to have some of the finest brewing waters in the world. Using organic ingredients and local hops, when available, MBC has been brewing since 1995 and has won multiple gold medal awards and first place awards from such esteemed competitions as the Great American Beer Festival and the California State Fair. Celebrator Magazine has recognized MBC as one of the most decorated but least known of California’s microbreweries. MBC is also leading the way with innovative packaging and is one of the first microbreweries in the country to utilize aluminum cans to package their beers. Aluminum is a highly recyclable and environmentally friendly package, perfect for the outdoor-oriented lifestyle of the High Sierra backcountry. This small brewery, located between Yosemite & Death Valley National Parks, won’t be a secret much longer as we are expanding into other markets throughout California and Nevada.

The Mammoth Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza was started 13 years ago by Sam Walker in the parking lot of Whiskey Creek with just ten breweries and a handful of beer lovers. With BBQ ribs on the grill and a local garage band playing from the roof of the restaurant, it was a fun beginning! The idea behind the event was simple – have some fun and introduce Mammoth to the joys of handcrafted beers. The second year we threw in some real blues bands and a lot more breweries and we’ve never looked back. From these humble beginnings the festival is now recognized as one of the best beer and blues festivals in the United States. FUN has always been, and continues to be, our top priority!

IT’S ABOUT THE BEER!
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Mammoth’s most talked about blues and brews party is back and promises to be bigger and better than ever!

The Grand Tasting takes place Saturday, August 2nd, 12:00–5:00 pm with unlimited tasting from more than 50 of the country’s best microbreweries such as Marin, Coronado, Stone, Mendocino, Reaper Ale, Karl Straus, Ballast Point, Anderson Valley, Angel City, Pizza Port, EJ Phair, Hoptown, Indian Wells, Kona, Lagunitas, Rock Bottom, and many more.

The following is a list of participating breweries for this year’s event. Stay tuned as additional breweries will be listed weekly.

Alaskan Brewing Company
Anacapa Brewing Company
Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Angel City Brewing
Back Street Brewery
Ballast Point Brewery Company
Bear Republic Brewing Company
BJ’s Restaurant and Brewery
Black Diamond Brewing
Blue Frog Grog & Grill
Brew It Up!
Brewbakers Brewery
The Brewhouse
The Bruery
Buckbean Brewing Company
Coronado Brewing Company
Craftsman Brewing Company
Dean’s Brothers Brewing Company
Deschutes Brewery
E.J. Phair
Fifty Fifty Brewing
Fireman’s Brew
Firestone Walker Brewing Company
Fox Barrel Cider Company
The Great Beer Company, Inc.
Green Flash Brewing Company
Golden State Brewing
Hair of the Dog
Hoppy Brewing Company
Hoptown Brewing Company
Huntington Beach Beer Company
Karl Strauss Brewing Company
Kern River Brewing

Klaster Brewery
La Jolla Brew House
Lagunitas Brewing Company
Left Coast Brewing Company
Lengthwise Brewing Company
Lumberyard Brewing Company
Marin Brewing Company
Mendocino Brewing Company
Mission Brewery
Moylan’s Brewing Company
New Belgium Brewing
Newport Beach Brewing Company
North Coast Brewing Company
Omaha Jacks
Peter Johnson Brewery
Pizza Port
Pyramid Breweries
River City Brewing Company
Rubicon Brewing Company
Russian River Brewing Company
The Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
San Diego Brewers Guild
San Diego Brewing Company
Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Skyscraper Brewing Company
St. Stan’s Brewing Company
Stone Brewing Company
Telegraph Brewing Company
Trumer Brauerei

For more information about breweries and the Beer Festival email: jim@harvestmoonpresents.com or sean@mammothbrewingco.com or call 888-99 BREWS {888-992-7397}. Along with the beer there’s plenty of terrific “blues” food to satisfy the heartiest brews and blues appetite. Many of Mammoth’s finest restaurants will have food booths at this event so come hungry as well as thirsty! (Festival Tip: Best Ticket Value!!! If you are over 21 years of age, purchase the Ultimate Blues/Brews/BBQ Party Package Ticket which includes the Friday Night Blues BBQ and Concert featuring Coco Montoya and special guests Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan; a delicious BBQ Dinner and Saturday’s main event, The Grand Tasting & Bluesapalooza including a commemorative tasting glass, unlimited beer tasting and the blues festival featuring Jonny Lang, Curtis Salgado Band, Chris Cain Band, Devon Allman’s Honeytribe, and Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan.)

Come join Ballast Point Brewing Co. at the 14th annual San Diego Festival of Beers.

The fourteenth annual Festival of Beer takes over the streets at Columbia and B once again to bring you a fun-filled evening with over 4,000 local beer lovers like yourself enjoying the sounds of live music while sampling from over one hundred and fifty different microbrews.

This year we hope once again to be privileged to have Len Rainey and the Midnight Players and Night Shift as our live bands. The admission fee of $25 included ten (4oz.) beer tastings. Inside the “FOB” we had food and munchies for sale in addition to a selection of wines for purchase by the glass. All guests received a free souvenir event logo tasting glass that was theirs to use throughout the evening and to keep when they went home.

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Event date: Friday, September 19, 2008
Event time: 6pm until 11pm
Location: Downtown San Diego, at Columbia and B street
Live music: “Len Rainey and the Midnight Players” and “Night Shift”

Please note, this is a non-smoking event, and a 21-and-over event only.
No admittance without photo ID, and no children or pets permitted.

We’re a little new to the whole blog thing, but we’d like to help out and answer questions you might have about home brewing, wine making and great beer in general.

So grab a cold brew, relax and let your ideas flow.