BevMo is hosting a Holiday Beer Fest at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Sunday, November 15th from 1pm to 4pm. The event costs $35 and tickets are ONLY available online. (If tickets are still available the day of the event, they can be purchased at the Herbst Pavilion Door for $45-cash). A portion of the proceeds is being donated to the Monterey Culinary Arts Foundation — which I totally dig.
Another awesome perk of attending the event is being able to taste “soon-to-be-released” holiday beers before they are actually released. And because I’m super awesome (go with it), I was privileged enough to be sent the list of beers for tasting.
Naturally, I have my opinions about many of the beers in the line up (the good, the bad and the ugly). There are some tables that I will avoid like the plague ::cough:: CORPORATE ::cough::
And then there are some tables that I might spend copious amounts of time at — i.e.: De Proef, Allagash, Bison, Green Flash, Stone etc…
Either way, here is the super star list of breweries pouring their specialty and holiday beers at the Holiday Beer Fest in San Francisco on Sunday, November 15th. If you are in the Bay Area, I highly suggest attending this event. It should be awesome.
| Abita Brewing | Christmas Ale – Pecan Harvest – Jockamo IPA – Abbey Ale |
| Alaskan Brewing | Alaskan Amber – Alaskan White Ale – Alaskan Winter Ale |
| Anchor Brewing | Christmas Ale – Liberty Ale |
| Anderson Valley | Winter Solstice |
| Anheuser-Busch | Pumpkin Spice – Winter Bourbon |
| Alagash | Allagash Curieux (bourbon barrel aged) – Black Belgian Style Stout |
| Asahi | Super Dry – Brewmasters Select |
| Asphall | Dry English Cider |
| Bards Tale | Gluten Free |
| Batemans | English Ale |
| Wells | Banana Bread Beer |
| Youngs | Double Chocolate Stout |
| Malheur | Brut |
| Belhaven | Scottish Ale |
| Big Sky | Powder Hound – Big Sky IPA – Moose Drool – Trout Slayer |
| Bison Brewing (Organic) | Ginger Bread Ale- Chocolate Stout |
| Black Diamond | Winter Ale(Belgian Abbey Style) |
| Blue Frog | Big Dippa 3 IPA – McPhrog Scottish |
| Boston Beer | Winter Lager, Coastal Wheat, Camberry Lambic- Old Fezziwig – Holiday Porter |
| Buffalo Bills | Pumpkin Ale |
| Chimay | Grand Reserve |
| Chang | Premium |
| Coastal Fog | IPA |
| Widmer | Brrr Ale |
| Kona | Pipeine Porter |
| Redhook | Winterhook |
| Deschutes | Jubelale |
| De Proef | Belgian Ale |
| Dogfish Fish | 90 Minute IPA – Midas Touch – Palo Santo Marron – Festina Peche – Chicory Stout |
| Castelian St Amand | French Country Ale |
| Brasserie Dubuisson | Scaldis Noel |
| Brasserie Dupont | Foret Organic Saison – Saison Farmhouse Ale – Bons Voeux X-Mas Ale |
| Hopf | Dunkle Weisse |
| Elysian | Bifrost Winter Ale |
| Firestone | Walker’s Reserve Porter |
| Nectar Ales | Red Nectar – Nectar IPA |
| Firehouse | Belgian Double – Scotch Ale |
| Fox Barrel | Mulling Cider |
| Full Sail | Wassail Winter Ale -Session Black Lager – Brewmaster Reserve Vesuvius & Wreck the Halls |
| Hornsby | Hard Apple Cider |
| BridgePort | Hop Czar – Ebenezer |
| Shiner | Cheers Ale |
| Gordon Biersch | Winter Bock |
| Grand Teton Brewing | Black Cauldron Imperial Stout, Cellar Reserve – Double Vision Dopplebock, Howling Wolf Weizenbock |
| Grand Teton Brewing | XX Bitch Creek Double ESB/20th Anniversary – Pursuit of Hoppiness Double Red Ale |
| Woodchuck | Vermont Hard Cider |
| Guinness | Irish Stout |
| He’brew | Jewbelation |
| Heineken | Premium & Dark Lager |
| Lagunitas | Brown Shugga’ |
| Lost Coast | Winterbraun – Downtown Brown – Tangerine Wheat |
| Mad River | John Barleycorn Barleywine Style Ale |
| Magners Cider | Hard Irish Cider |
| Marin/Moylans | White Christmas Winter Lager – Hoppy Holidaze Spiced Ale – Kilt Lifter Scotch Ale |
| Napa Smith | Bonfire Winter Ale – Lost Dog |
| Oskar Blues | Gordon Red Ale – Old Chub Scotch Ale |
| Green Flash | Imperial IPA |
| Saint Landelin | French Speciale Noel |
| Triple Karmeliet | Belgian Tripple |
| North Coast | Old Stock Ale – Old Rasputin Stout |
| Meantime | Coffee Porter |
| Dues | Brut Des Flanders |
| St Feuillien | Cuvee De Noel |
| Paulaner | Salvator |
| Brouwerij Huyghe | Fruli Strawberry Belgian Ale |
| Fullers | 1845 Ale – Vintage Ale |
| Carlow Brewery | O’Hara’s Irish Stout |
| Menage a Singe | Black IPA |
| Pyramid | Snow Cap Winter Ale |
| Rogue Ales | Santa’s Private Reserve Ale |
| Sapporo | Premium |
| Santa Cruz Ale works | Oatmeal Stout – IPA – Barrel Aged Porter |
| Schneider | Aventinus Weizen Eisbock – Aventinus Doppelbock |
| Shipyard | Pugsley Signature XXXX IPA – Imperial Sout |
| Sierra Nevada | Harvest Ale – Celebration Ale – Pale Ale |
| Spaten | Spaten Optimator – Double Bock – Munich Dunkel |
| Franziskaner | Franziskaner Dunkelweiss |
| Speakeasy | Black IPA – Double Daddy IPA |
| Smithwicks | Irish Ale |
| Stone | Double Bastard draft |
| Tied House | Holiday Ale |
| Trumer Brauerei | Premium Pils |
CHEERS!!!
This is a great list. Too bad I’m on the wrong coast!!!
-Lost
I am SO excited about this event! This looks like an AWESOME list!
If you say it’s going to be great, then I’m definately going.
This event is going to be incredible, and that list is insane. Ginger Bread Ale- Chocolate Stout is where it’s at. You’ve spoken to my heart. Please, marry us Wenchie.
The boys of Justins Live
http://www.justinslive.com
There isn’t going to be a better experience for a beer lover than this, with all those breweries taking part we are going to sample some of the finest beers in the world (and possibly some of the worst? who knows).
You guys are hilarious … we should meet up for a beer some time. Contact me — drinkwiththewench@gmail.com
Cheers!!