AleFest Columbus, now in its 6th year, is a craft beer festival featuring over 180 great beers including rare draughts and casks from nearly 100 world class breweries. The fest this year features live entertainment from Nick Mitchell, retail sales of your favorite beer merch, silent auction, raffle, food concession and a lil’ bit o’ assorted swag for showin’ up.
When: Saturday, February 5, 2011 from 2-6pm
Where: Aladdin Shrine Center Ballroom
How much: $35.00 – Admission includes 20 samples of craft beer, commemorative tasting glass, and tasting guide. Buy online or at the door. Designated driver/non-drinker tickets are available for $10 and include a bottle of water and an AleFest glass.
Wondering what your tastebuds are in for? Here’s the current beer selection:
| 21st Amendment Brew Free or Die IPA & Hell or High Watermelon Wheat Abita Andygator & Bock Alesmith Horny Devil & J.P Grey’s Wee Heavy Alltech Kentucky Ale Bourbon Barrel (draught), Kentucky Ale, & Kentucky Light Avery Joe’s Pils & India Pale Ale Ayinger Bräu Weisse Bavik Wittekerke BBC Bourbon Barrel Stout (draught), American Pale Ale, & Nut Brown Ale Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye & Racer 5 IPA Belhaven Stout & Ale (both draught) Bell’s Double Cream Stout, Expedition Stout, Hopslam, Oberon, Porter, Third Coast Old Ale & Two Hearted Ale BJ’s Brewhouse Lightswitch Lager & Seasonal Grand Cru (both draught) Blue Moon Belgian White & Spring Moon Blonde Sam Adams Latitude 48, Noble Pils, Boston Lager, & Imperial White Brew Dog Dogma, Hardcore IPA, & Paradox Isle of Arran Brewkettle Old 21 & 4 C’s (both draught), White Rajah, & Erie Gold Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout (draught), Brown Ale, IPA, & Lager Burger Classic Celis Grand Cru & White Ale Charles Wells Banana Bread Beer Chimay Trappist Grand Reserve Blue, Trappist Première Red, & Cinq Cents White Chouffe LaChouffe, Houblon Chouffe, & McChouffe Christian Moerlein Northern Liberties IPA, Lager House Helles, Over The Rhine Pale Ale, & Barbarossa Doppelbock Columbus Brewing Company IPA Dark Horse Crooked Tree IPA, Scotty Karate Scotch Ale, & Sapient Tripel Dogfish Head Palo Santo & Midas Touch (draught) Duboisson Scaldis DuPont Saison DuPont Vielle Provision Duvel Green (draught) Erie Railbender Ale Flying Dog Doggie Style Pale Ale, Gonzo Imperial Porter, Snake Dog IPA, & Raging Bitch |
Fort Collins Chocolate Stout & Retro Red Founders Centennial IPA, Dirty Bastard, Double Trouble, & Porter Franziskaner Hefe Weizen Full Sail Pale Ale & Session Lager Fuller’s Organic Honey Dew Goose Island Matilda & Sofie (draught), Pere Jacques, Fleur, & Pepe Nero Gordon Biersch Märzen, Czech Pilsner, Hefeweizen, & Blonde Bock Great Lakes Commodore Perry IPA, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Gold Lager, & Conway’s Irish Ale Green Flash Hop Head Red & West Coast IPA Guinness Foreign Extra Stout Harpoon IPA, UFO Hefeweizen, & Celtic Red Heavy Seas Gold Ale (cask), Loose Cannon, Über Pils, Peg Leg Imperial Stout, & Marzen Hofbräu München Original Lager, Dunkel, Hefe Weizen, & Oktoberfest Hoppin’ Frog Boris The Crusher, IPA, & Silk Porter Hudepohl Amber, Little Kings Cream Ale, & Delight Indigo Imp Winter Solstice Spiced Amber Ale (cask), Blonde Bombshell American Blonde Ale, Jester Belgian-Style Pale Ale, & Gatekeeper Robust Porter. Ithaca Flower Power IPA & Groundbreak König Ludwig Weiss Lagunitas Hop Stoopid, India Pale Ale, Maximus, & Dogtown Pale Ale Lakefront Fuel Café Stout & IPA Leinenkugel Classic Amber & Fireside Nut Brown Liefmans Goudenband, Cuvée Brut, & Fruitesse Lindemans Cassis Lambic Magic Hat #9 & Vinyl Maredsous Blonde, Brune, & Tripel McAuslan St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout & Apricot Wheat Monk’s Café Neil House Buckeye Roots Hefeweizen & Ohio Red (Irish Style) New Holland Cabin Fever, Mad Hatter India Pale Ale, & the Poet Stout Newcastle Brown Ale North Coast Brother Thelonius & Pranqster (draught), Old Rasputin, & Old Stock Ale North Peak Diabolical IPA, Vicious American Wheat IPA, & Siren Amber Ale Ommegang BPA Belgian Pale Ale (draught), Three Philosophers, & Chocolate Indulgence Otter Creek Alpine Black IPA & Wolaver’s Organic Coffee Porter |
Paulaner Hefe Weizen, Salvator, & Fruli Pilsner Urquell Pyramid Haywire Hefeweizen, Audacious Apricot, & Outburst Imperial IPA Redhook ESB & Mudslinger Rivertown Raspberry Nut Brown Ale (cask), Double IPA Hop Baron & Oatmeal Stout (draught) Rockmill Brewery Witbier, Saison, Dubbel, & Tripel Rogue Chatoe Dirtoir, Chocolate Stout, Irish Lager, & Brutal IPA Samuel Smith Imperial Stout Shiner Black Lager Smuttynose Big A IPA & Barleywine Southern Tier Cuvee #2 & Unearthly Imperial IPA Spaten Lager & Optimator Doppelbock St. Bernardus Abt 12 & Tripel St. Peters Organic Porter & Stout Stone Arrogant Bastard (draught), Sublimely Self Righteous Ale, IPA, Smoked Porter, Cali Belgique, & Ruination IPA Stoudt’s Double IPA & Fat Dog Imperial Stout Thirsty Dog Old Leghumper, Cerberus, Twisted Kilt, & Stud Service Stout (all draught) Timmermans Strawberry & Framboise Lambic Tommyknocker Butthead Doppelbock & Maple Nut Brown Troëgs Hopback Amber, Nugget Nectar, & Troëgenator Doppelbock Unibroue Blanche de Chambly, La Fin du Monde, & Maudite Van Steenburge Gulden Draak & Piraat Tripel IPA Victory Hop Devil, Prima Pils, Storm King Imperial Stout, & Hop Whallop Weasel Boy Plaid Ferret Cask, Bourbon Barrel Anastasia Russian Imperial Stout & Bitter Sable Imperial Black IPA (both draught) Weihenstephan Hefe Weizen, Original, Kristal, Dunkel, & Korbinian Westmalle Trappist Tripel Weyerbacher Blithering Idiot & Double Simcoe IPA Widmer Brothers Drifter Pale Ale, Hefe Weizen, & Brrrbon Wooden Shoe Wooden Canoe Pale Ale & Tippecanoe Canal Jumper Red (both draught), Lager, Bock, Wheat, & Black Wychwood Hobgoblin, Wychcraft, & Scarecrow Young’s Double Chocolate Stout |
