I’m pleased to announce that the four winners for the tickets to the MoBev 2009 Bowling for Beer Tour are Chris Van Gels, Bryan Clauser, Patricia Thomas and Hunter Lanier! Congrats to all of them and thanks everyone for entering. If you didn’t win, don’t be too upset, once again I have some cool stuff to give away soon (like today).

I once again want to thank Derek Bean from Missouri beverage for donating the four tickets to the tasting. It sounds like a lot of fun and I hope you all roll strikes.

Each summer the fellows that work at Missouri Beverage take the show on the road visiting Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis to give their restaurant and retail accounts a chance to meet with brewery & importer reps from the breweries they represent and sell.

You may be thinking to yourself, “This sounds all well and good, but how does it do me any good?  I don’t work for a retailer or restaurant.”  Well, Derek Bean has been kind enough to provide 4 tickets to this event which includes not only the ability to taste over 100 different beers but also bowling!  And who doesn’t love bowling?

The MoBev 2009 Bowling for Beer Tour will take place on Thursday, June 25th from 2PM-6PM.  If you’re interested in winning a ticket to this event all you need to do is email contest@stlhops.com with a subject of “Bowling for Beer Tour” and let me know what your highest bowling score has been.

This contest will end on June 24th at 9AM CDT when I will pick four winners at random. If you don’t win this one, don’t worry I will be holding more contests like this in the future, so you’ll have another chance then. Good luck!

Brad Mock suggested this idea over in the forums, so I’m trying to gauge interest in it.  Would anyone here be interested in taking some Saturday in June, renting a bus and doing a beer tour around the St. Louis area?  I’m thinking we could visit a few breweries, a few excellent beer bars, talk and drink beer.

It looks like a few of us are interested, anyone else?  Also, do you have any suggestions for places we could visit?  Feel free to post a comment or email me with ideas or if you’re interested in attending.