6th Annual Keg Liquors Fest of Ale June 4th

6th Annual Keg Liquors Fest of Ale, June 4th, 3-7PM
What is the Fest of Ale? It is a charity craft beer festival to help raise funds for the WHAS Crusade for Children.

40+ Breweries, 4 Craft Beer Distributors, 6 Fine Wine Distributors, over 150 craft and import beers, wine, food, charity raffle and more!

We've continued to improve the festival year after year. This year, we have added even more wine, and we have also added several new breweries to the mix.

June 4th from 3-7 P.M.
Location: St. Anthony's of Padua
320 North Sherwood Avenue
Clarksville, Indiana 47129-2798

Cost: $25 advance, $30 day of
For more details and to buy tickets (starting May1st) check out the events website at http://www.kegliquors.com/fest_of_ale.html , or you can stop in the store and purchase your tickets there.

A few people have asked me about some of the changes we are making this year to the fest. One new thing that we are doing is what we are calling our House of Hops. We'll have a separate tent from our usual setup that will be exclusively hoppy beers. We've got quite a lineup so far, and it is improving as we get more information from our brewers on what they are bringing.

We have also done away with the silent auction, and are going exclusively with a raffle this year. Logistically, the silent auction was not working out the way we wanted, with people bidding and not there at the end of the event to pay/pick up their items. We'll be making bundles of items to raffle off instead. A few examples include our 99 bottles of beer on the wall, which is a collection of 99 different craft and imported beers. Another batch will be a beer glassware collection, with numerous different logo beer glasses. We'll have plenty of other items available as well.

If any of our friends in the Hotbytes community wants to donate anything for the raffle, please contact me. Everything goes to the WHAS Crusade for Children, so it is tax deductible. We have the necessary paperwork from the Crusade that you can use when filing your taxes next year.

If anyone has any questions, please feel free to contact me.

I think I mentioned it last year, but any chance the tents will be reversed, so that drinkers are on outside instead of inside this year? It always gets packed in the aisles between the tables.

I realize its a tent or space issue, and it wont stop me from being there either way, but I like the way Great Taste does it to prevent crowding.

I think I mentioned it last year, but any chance the tents will be reversed, so that drinkers are on outside instead of inside this year? It always gets packed in the aisles between the tables.

I realize its a tent or space issue, and it wont stop me from being there either way, but I like the way Great Taste does it to prevent crowding.

Rob,

We are actually breaking things out a lot more than we have in the past, where we've put everything under the one large tent. A lot of the breweries coming have either vehicles they can pour from, or have smaller pop up tents, so we are going to move them all out of the tent and have a separate area for them, and we are also putting all the raffle items into a separate tent as well, so we will have a lot more room to move around in the tents than we have in the past.

I looked this year into getting smaller tents, rather than the one large one we have been using, but the costs were going to be more than double what we are currently paying, so rather than going that route and taking money away from the charity, we're going to try what I described above. It should be a whole lot better than what you've had to deal with in the past.

I think I mentioned it last year, but any chance the tents will be reversed, so that drinkers are on outside instead of inside this year? It always gets packed in the aisles between the tables.

I realize its a tent or space issue, and it wont stop me from being there either way, but I like the way Great Taste does it to prevent crowding.

Rob,

We are actually breaking things out a lot more than we have in the past, where we've put everything under the one large tent. A lot of the breweries coming have either vehicles they can pour from, or have smaller pop up tents, so we are going to move them all out of the tent and have a separate area for them, and we are also putting all the raffle items into a separate tent as well, so we will have a lot more room to move around in the tents than we have in the past.

I looked this year into getting smaller tents, rather than the one large one we have been using, but the costs were going to be more than double what we are currently paying, so rather than going that route and taking money away from the charity, we're going to try what I described above. It should be a whole lot better than what you've had to deal with in the past.

Cool, I figured the other way must have cost more, but it sounds like what you are doing will help a lot.

Version 1 of the Fest of Ale Program is now online. There will be a few tweaks to this, as I'm still waiting on a few breweries to give me their beer list.

http://www.kegliquors.com/images/uploads/2011_fest_of_ale%20program.pdf

Version 5 of the program is now up, http://www.kegliquors.com/images/upload ... rogram.pdf and we are happy to announce that Sun King Brewery from Indianapolis will be pouring at the fest now! We'll also start getting their canned beer next week as well.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3n5dw4m

Link to a google docs spreadsheet with the program info in sortable form.

I added style info (from BeerAdvocate.com) and grades from BA.com and also scores from ratebeer.com.

Its sorted by style/RB score right now. I find it the most useful way to use it. I tend to get on a style kick and want to try them all - last year it was saisons.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3n5dw4m

Link to a google docs spreadsheet with the program info in sortable form.

I added style info (from BeerAdvocate.com) and grades from BA.com and also scores from ratebeer.com.

Its sorted by style/RB score right now. I find it the most useful way to use it. I tend to get on a style kick and want to try them all - last year it was saisons.

Nice work there Rob.... that is pretty cool!

Here is the latest addition to the Fest of Ale...



An area dedicated solely to great hoppy beers.

http://www.kegliquors.com/house_of_hops.html

We just uploaded the map/layout for this year's fest!

http://www.kegliquors.com/images/upload ... Layout.pdf

This will be my first Fest of Ale and I'm looking forward to it, Todd. I was just wondering if you (or anybody else) had any idea what kind of food will be offered..

NABC will have a rare keg of Yakima Rye IPA in the hop tent. We will have Hoptimus, Tunnel Vision, ThunderFoot and Jaxon in Rosa L. Stumblebus. All our offerings are of the gravity variety. Hope to see ya'll there.

Thanks to everyone who came out for the Fest of Ale yesterday. We topped 1000 people in attendance for the first time, and we were able to raise $7225 for the Crusade for Children. We are very proud of both of those numbers.

If anyone on the forum attended and has feedback, both good or bad, please let me know. We always like to tweak things any way we can to make things better for the next year.

Thanks,

Todd

Thanks to everyone who came out for the Fest of Ale yesterday. We topped 1000 people in attendance for the first time, and we were able to raise $7225 for the Crusade for Children. We are very proud of both of those numbers.

If anyone on the forum attended and has feedback, both good or bad, please let me know. We always like to tweak things any way we can to make things better for the next year.

Thanks,

Todd

Positive: Loved the layout of the main tent this year. The breweries that brought there own little tents made it possible for you to do what I had suggested previously and it was awesome. You could get in and out without having to fight thru crowds, and if you wanted to socialize in the shade of the tent, you could without being in people's ways. Many thumbs up!!!

Negative: The heat. I suggest you lower the thermostat a little bit next year.