Thursday, December 26, 2013

Brew Fest Alert! Columbia, SC

Attention CSRA beer lovers! @allaboutbeer is hosting the World Beer Festival in Columbia, SC on Jan 18th.

http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/venueSearch.jsp?venue_id=5739

Two sessions: 12-4pm and 6-10pm
General Admission: $40, and VIP Admission: $85
Buy tickets here.

This will be the WBF's 6th year in Columbia, and my third time attending.  Last year was a little less impressive than the first, as it did not seems they had as many booths/breweries as the previous year, and there were some snafus with the advertised VIP selections.  Additionally, there have been issues in previous years with lack of supplies for the evening session.  Hopefully all of these will be rectified for this event.

You can see the current "as-of-now" line up here.  The only one that actually catches my eye is Foothills.  Red Hare, SweetWater, Terrapin, and Thomas Creek should provide some solid regional representation.  But I am hoping the expanded list will include smaller regionals from GA (Monday Night, Burnt Hickory, Three Taverns, Southbound, Eagle Creek, Wild Heaven), SC (Westbrook, COAST, Holy City), and NC (NoDa, Olde Meck, Wicked Weed).   Columbia's Conquest Brewing is actually doing a collaboration IPA with the @allaboutbeer staff for the event, and I don't know much about smaller brewers like Lonerider and Hunter-Gatherer but it is good to see them in the door.

I hope that over the next couple of weeks we will see a final list, with some of these great regional choices included.

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