I’m pleased to announce that the two winners for the tickets to the Wine and Cheese Place Beer and Cheese Tasting are Sam Saikia and Caleb Posner! Congrats to Sam and Caleb 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.

I once again want to thank Paul Hayden from The Wine and Cheese Place for donating the four tickets to the tasting. There are a few tickets still available for those of you that didn’t win, be sure to head out to tonight’s tasting. It sounds like a lot of fun and I hope we see a lot more to come.

For all of you drooling over the pairings for the Beer and Cheese tasting that’s going on tomorrow, Thursday, September 2nd at 6PM, at The Wine and Cheese Place, I have a contest for you.

Only a few tickets for this event remain, but fortunately for you Paul was kind enough to give us 4 tickets to give away for this event. So, email contest@stlhops.com with the subject line of: Beer and Cheese. A couple of quick notes:

• If you’ve won something from STL Hops in the past 6 months, please be cool and let someone else enter.
• You much be 21 or older to enter.
• No multiple entries.
• If you don’t think you’ll be able to attend, please don’t enter. I’d like to make sure that people available to attend have a chance to win.

As this event is tomorrow, I’ll be picking two random winners tomorrow (09/02/2010) at 9AM. Send your email now if you want to attend!

Unfortunately, Andrew Mark Veety, the creator of The Church of Burger will not be able to attend the STL Hops Beer Dinner this upcoming Monday evening.  But, he was kind enough to offer up his two tickets to the event. The dinner is on Monday, July 12th at 6:30 pm and will be held at Farmhaus.

If you’re interested in winning tickets that include a four courses being paired with four different beers (you will be required to pay the gratuity) email contest@stlhops.com with a subject of “STL Hops Beer Dinner”. A couple of quick notes:

• If you’ve won something from STL Hops in the past 6 months, please be cool and let someone else enter.
• You much be 21 or older to enter.
• No multiple entries.
• If you don’t think you’ll be able to attend, please don’t enter. I’d like to make sure that people available to attend have a chance to win.

The winner will be drawn on Friday, June 9th at 9AM. Good luck.

Mark from Bigelo’s Bistro was kind enough to provide two tickets to their Left Hand Beer Dinner. The dinner is on Sunday, June 27th at 4 pm and Bigelo’s is located in Edwardsville, Illinois.

If you’re interested in winning tickets that include a five courses being paired with five different beers (you will be required to pay the gratuity) email contest@stlhops.com with a subject of “Bigelo’s Left Hand Beer Dinner” and tell me what your favorite beer is only available in Illinois. A couple of quick notes:

• If you’ve won something from STL Hops in the past 6 months, please be cool and let someone else enter.
• You much be 21 or older to enter.
• No multiple entries.
• If you don’t think you’ll be able to attend, please don’t enter. I’d like to make sure that people available to attend have a chance to win.

The winner will be drawn on Friday, June 25th at 9AM. There are still a few seats available for the dinner, you can make reservations by calling 618-655-1471.

I’m pleased to announce that the winner for the two tickets to the The Stable’s Second Anniversary Party is James Barnett! Congrats to James and thank you everyone for entering.

I want to thank Brad Wheeling from Amalgamated Brewing for providing the tickets to this event and congrats to them on their second anniversary. Don’t forget, 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.

Today is your lucky day as STL Hops is giving away two passes to this week’s Second Anniversary Party at The Stable. This $50 value will allow you to enjoy over 36 different draught  beers and unlimited snacks at one of the coolest venues in town.

All you need to do is email contest@stlhops.com with the subject of “Stable Second Anniversary”. A couple of quick notes:

• If you’ve won something from STL Hops in the past 6 months, please be cool and let someone else enter.
• If you won passes for the Wine and Cheese Place Beerfest, you can still enter, that doesn’t count.
• You must be 21 or older to enter.
• No multiple entries.

I want to thank Brad Wheeling from Amalgamated Brewing for providing the tickets to this event. This contest will end on Thursday, June 17th at 9AM CDT when I will pick a winner 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!

I’m pleased to announce that the winner for the two tickets to the Saturday evening session of the St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival is Bradley Darby! Congrats to Bradley and thank you everyone for entering. If you didn’t win, don’t be too upset, I’m going to have a few more things to give away in the next few weeks.

I once again want to thank Andrew Sweeney from U-Gas for providing the tickets to this event. Hope to meet a lot of you at the festival!