Denver Rare Beer Tasting III set for Sept. 30, 2011
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Exclusive Event During GABF Week Supports the Pints for Prostates Campaign
Making it to Denver at least once during the Great American Beer Festival is on just about every craft beer fan’s bucket list. Anyone who has been will tell you that the GABF is just the start of the fun in what is the epicenter of all things beer for three days each fall.
A relative newcomer to the Denver scene during GABF is the Denver Rare Beer Tasting. Created in 2009 as a fundraiser for the Pints For Prostates campaign, the event presented by All About Beer Magazine has quickly become one of the most talked about beer tastings anywhere.
The Denver Rare beer Tasting III will take place on Sept. 30th from 1-4pm at the Wynkoop Brewery on 18th Street in the LoDo section of the city. Beer fans lucky enough to score a ticket to the Denver Rare Beer Tasting III will be able to brag to friends that they got the chance to taste some of the rarest, most exotic and highly sought after brews in America, while chatting with some of craft beer’s most respected personalities.
Tickets for the event will go on sale June 19th at noon (EST). Tickets are $80, with 100 percent of the net proceeds from the sales going towards the awareness mission of Pints for Prostates, a 501(c)3 non-profit charity founded by beer writer and prostate cancer survivor Rick Lyke. It is expected that more than two dozen rare beers will be poured during the three hour session.
“Denver Rare Beer Tasrting is a once a year celebration of some of the most exotic creations of the brewer’s art. Beer lovers have the opportunity for a truly special experience, tasting a collection of beers that most people just do not get the chance to enjoy,” said Lyke. “This is a fun afternoon, with a serious mission: raising awareness about prostate cancer.”
“The Denver Rare Beer Tasting is all about what makes beer great – creativity, craftsmanship and community. We bring together America’s best craft breweries in a relaxed format where brewers and beer lovers get the chance to talk and taste great beers,” said Daniel Bradford, publisher of All About Beer Magazine. “This event sold out in advance the first two years, so people coming to the GABF who want the chance to experience a boutique-style tasting need to order tickets in advance for Denver Rare Beer Tasting.”
Just how rare will the beers beer at the Denver Rare Beer Tasting III? Organizers are still finalizing the brewery and beer list for 2011, but the beer lists from the first two events is an impressive indication of what is awaiting beer fans this year.
Some participating breweries this year include, but not limited to, Avery Brewing, Big Sky Brewing Co., Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Foothills Brewing, Odell Brewing Co., The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery, New Belgium Brewing Co., Cigar City Brewing and Rogue Ales.
In 2010, these beers were poured at the Denver Rare Beer Tasting II: Alaskan Whiskey Barrel-Aged Smoked Porter; Avery Quinquepartite; Bell’s Eccentric Ale 2004; Big Sky Barrel-Aged Ivan the Terrible; Samuel Adams Cosmic Mother Funk; Brooklyn Reinschweinsgebot; The Bruery Melange #3; Cascade Noyeaux Sour Ale; Cigar City White Oak-Aged Jai Alai India Pale Ale; Deschutes Black Butte XXII; Dogfish Head Namaste; Foothill 2009 Sexual Chocolate; Founders Nemesis; Goose Island Bourbon Barrel Coffee Stout; Great Divide Flanders Red; Jolly Pumpkin Biere de Goord; New Belgium Tart Lychee; Pike Tripel Kriek; Rogue 21 Ale; Russian River Temptation; Sierra Nevada Brandy Barrel-Aged Belgian Trippel; Stone Collaboration ESB; Three Floyds Dark Lord; Upstream 2006 Gueuze; Weyebacher Decadence; and Wynkoop Orville 33.
In 2009, at the inaugural Denver Rare Beer Tasting, the beer list included: Alaskan Smoked Porter 1999 & 2008; Allagash Fluxus 2009; Bison Reunion ’09 – A Beer For Hope Double White Ale; Samuel Adams Utopias 2009; Brooklyn Wild 1; Deschutes Double Black Butte Porter XX; Dogfish Head Raison D’Extra 2006; Foothills 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle Barrel-Aged Total Eclipse Stout; Great Divide Old Ruffian Barley Wine 2008; Harpoon 100 Barrel Series Glacier Harvest ’09 Wet Hop Ale; Highland Big Butte Smoked Porter; Jolly Pumpkin Biere de Mars Grand Reserve 2006 & 2007; Lost Abbey The Angel’s Share 2009 Brandy Barrel Finish; New Belgium Trip II; New Glarus Golden Ale; Odell Crimson Shenanigans; Oskar Blues Wet & Whiskeyed Gordon; Rogue Ales John John Hazelnut; Saranac Imperial IPA; Sierra Nevada Barrel-Aged Scotch Ale; Stoudt Old Abominable Barley Wine 2007; Stone 2008 Old Guardian Barley Wine Aged in Red Wine Barrels; and Wynkoop Barrel-Aged Berserker Mead.
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