The Monsters of Beer Festival is happening next Saturday, October 24th at the The Stable. Just to get your taste buds a salivating, he’s a preliminary list of beers that should be available at the festival:

• Arcadia Brewing Hop Rocket
• Founders Breakfast Stout
• Goose Island Bourbon County Stout 08
• Peche Mortel
• North Coast Brother Thelonious
• Lost Continent
• North Coast Barrel Aged Rasputin
• Kasteel Tripel
• Amalgamated Brewing Imperial IPA
• Left Hand Twin Sister
• New Holland Night Tripper
• Southern Tier Pumpking
• Schlafly Imperial Stout Cask
• Southen Tier Cuvee 2
• Bells Cherry Stout
• Bells Third Coast Old Ale
• Boulevard Doppelbock
• Founders Harvest
• Bells Expedition Stout
• Bells Double Cream Stout
• The last 5 have yet to be determined.

It’s a spooky time of year and so The Stable brings back the Monsters of Beer festival.  On October 24th from 1PM-4PM, your $25 dollar ticket allows you to taste fifteen different 3oz pours of some monster beers with a commemorative glass. Only 175 tickets are being sold for this event, so you should buy them as soon as you can from The Stable or The Rotten Apple.

I don’t have the beer list for this event just yet, but I’m hoping to have it soon.

It may have not been the largest festival I’ve been to this year, but the Monsters of Beer at The Stable was pretty fun nonetheless.  It also seemed like there were a lot of people in attendance that didn’t know very much about beer, but were very eager to learn.  Always an exciting opportunity for me as I love teaching about beer and beer styles.

I hope that the small attendance  doesn’t dash the opportunity to do this again next year as it provided a wonderful opportunity to try a bunch of really fantastic beers that could be sampled for a fraction of buying each individually.

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The poster says a lot, but it’s not giving you the whole story. The first of what is hopefully many festivals at The Stable contains truly some Monsters of Beer. I helped pick some of the offerings and it looks like only one beer at this point is under 8%. Your $25 dollar ticket allows you to taste fifteen different 3oz pours and you get a commemorative glass with a photo of the poster above on it. Only 175 tickets are being sold for this event, so you should buy them as soon as you can from The Stable or The Rotten Apple.

And now the moment you’ve all been waiting for, 24 of the 25 beers (I’m being told the last one is a surprise) for tasting at the Monsters of Beer: continue reading…