This Saturday, August 27th in downtown Rock Island the 2nd Annual River City Beer Festiv-ale will occur from 2-6PM http://www.ribco.com/index.aspx?deid=779. This is an opportunity for beer lovers in the Quad Cities to enjoy over 150 craft, import and micro beers. New this year will be 4 homebrew beers from the MUGZ club. Also there will be special releases starting at 3pm every half hour until 5:30pm; these are mainly limited releases so find your favorite, note the time and table and be there in time to get your sample.
If you want to know ahead of time what beers are going to be available, find a copy of a River Cities' Reader and find the insert with a guide to the event. It has a run down of the beers and tables that they are at, as well it provides a detailed description of each beer. Also included is a guide to WQPT's Brew Ha Ha, coming up in September.
Admittance is $20 for the event, included in that is a tasting glass, while supplies last, and 14 drink tickets. Be aware that some beers are up to 4 tickets each, so if you run out additional tickets can be purchased for .50 cents each. So bring some extra money if you plan on sampling lots of beers. As well I believe there will be a couple special drink tickets for the homebrew included for no charge, since it is not legal in Illinois to sell homebrewed beer.
I looking forward to this event. Last year it was a very fun fest without the long lines of some of the larger fests. If you do plan on imbibing a lot of samples please have a designated driver! Hope to see you at the fest on Saturday!
QC Beerguy
Bah! I'll be in Plainfield at the Midwest Brewers Fest. Had this festival gotten its promos out sooner, I would've gladly gone to it instead. Could of saved me a lot of travel. Enjoy the KBS and Devil Dancer!
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