May 23, 2013

Freddie Kitson

Pig n Hog Summer/Autumn Beer Festivals

The Pig n Falcon and Hog and Partridge will be hosting a summer and Autumn Beer Festival.

The Pig n Hog Summer Beer Festival will take place from 4th – 15th July 2013 with the Autumn one from 24 October – 4th November 2013.

Scooping several awards at this years CAMRA pub awards, including for the Pig n Falcon Cider Pub of the year and pub of the year and Hog and Partridge receiving most improved pub of the year, John Nunn owner went on to receive Pub champion of the year.

The festivals will be lively events and more information will be released nearer the time.

For further information please go to the website www.pignfalcon.co.uk

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Beer festival survival guide

Because you don’t want this to happen to you:

This week’s Pikes Pub story talks about some of the best beer festivals of the summer months in our region. Here are some good tips to go along with your beer fest fun.

Beer festival survival guide
• Have a plan. Rare beers and those that aren’t available in stores tend to run out, so get them while the getting’s good.
• Get the “swag” early. Stickers, coasters and bottle openers will disappear quickly.
• Eat something. Whether it’s a necklace of pretzels or a $9 bratwurst, you’ll need a good foundation to stay in it for the long haul.
• Drink water. A sample cup of water for every few beer samples will save you pain tomorrow. Trust me.
• Eat something. I can’t stress this enough.
• Take a breather every now and then. It’ll help sustain you for the generous pours you tend to get toward the end of the festival. Maybe leaf through the festival program and plan your next assault.
• Don’t drive home. It’s very easy to lose track of your consumption at a festival. The police and highway patrol know about the festival too.

Best of the fests: Some beer bashes are worth the trip

There’s a dirty little secret about beer festivals: Functionally, nearly all of them are the same.

If everything goes well, you spend a few hours or so in a city park or other public space with a few hundred or so other people drinking a few dozen or so (tiny) beers from a few dozen or so brewers.

Beer novices can be blown away by the variety of beer they might not have known existed, while more advanced tasters can seek out the rare stuff and talk to brewers or brewery reps. And the company is almost always good, as beer people are nearly without fail engaging and interesting conversationalists, even without the liquid social lubrication flowing.

If this sounds like a good time, you don’t need to go to the elite festivals like Madison’s own Great Taste of the Midwest. There are only so many beers you can drink at a fest, whether there are 500 or 50 available. And in recent years the smaller fests have so proliferated that if you’re willing to burn a tank of gas, you have a full beer menu of solid options.

Most of Wisconsin’s festivals have been around a few years, long enough to figure out the number of toilets needed and how to keep out the patrons who are just looking to get sloshed. So the best way to pick one is simply to pick a date or location and see what’s out there.

Here are a few fests in otherwise-appealing summer vacation destinations that might add to the value of a road trip. All have beer and some kind of food or snacks, most have reduced-cost or free designated driver tickets, many have live music and shuttles to mitigate the post-fest drunkenness, and one has a beer beauty contest.

The North Woods

Great Northern Beer Festival, June 8, Eagle River

Camping up north is a rite of Wisconsin summers, and this festival is held on the grounds of the Hi-Pines Campground. The beer lineup looks to be par for the small-festival course, with a local homebrewers club also pouring. Eagle River is home to Tribute Brewing, founded by Marc Summers, who also started this festival. $30 advance, $35 at the gate, though tickets often sell out early. www.greatnorthernbeer

festival.com

Lac du Flambeau Brewfest, July 27, Minocqua

With smaller festivals sharing many breweries in their lineups, setting becomes a key variable, and Lac du Flambeau’s is excellent. It’s in Torpy Park, under soaring white pines on the shore of Minocqua Lake on the city’s downtown island — and right next door to Minocqua Brewing Co. $25 advance, $30 at the gate, with proceeds going to charities. lacduflambeau

brewfest.com

Metro Milwaukee

Wisconsin Beer Lovers Festival,

June 15, Glendale

OK, so this beer festival is basically in a shopping center, Bayshore Town Center, in Milwaukee’s northern ’burbs. But don’t let that turn you off; it’s probably the best non-Great Taste beer fest I’ve been to, thanks to the food dimension it adds at a reasonable price.

Each of the more than 30 brewers, all from Wisconsin, is paired with a restaurant, bakery or cheesemaker that offers a bite-sized morsel chosen to match up with one or more of the brewer’s beers.

All of this happens a few stones’ throws from the HQ of one of the original Wisconsin craft brewers: Sprecher Brewing Co., which has a gift shop and offers tours (call ahead). $40. wisconsinbeer

loversfest.com

Milwaukee Brewfest, July 27, Milwaukee

The setting rules at Milwaukee Brewfest, which will take over the Coast Guard Pavilion (a glorified park shelter) at the downtown lakefront McKinley Park for its fourth year this summer.

Among the attractions is the coronation of the Brewfest Queen, quite a title in Brew City.

On the way home, consider a stop at the outstanding Sweet Mullets Brewing in Oconomowoc, just 10 minutes or so off I-94. $40 advance; $45 at the gate; $60 VIP advance; $65 VIP at the gate. www.milwaukee

brewfest.com

The Resort Areas

Kohler Festival of Beer, May 31-June 2, Kohler

Beer events go highbrow in this weekend of events at The American Club.

Whether you’d like to golf a round at Blackwolf Run with a few specialty beer samples thrown in ($157), have a four-course, beer-paired dinner at the resort’s signature restaurant ($78) or go on a “pub crawl” with beer flights at several American Club venues ($52), this event has big spenders covered. There is a traditional beer festival ($70) on Saturday.

Each of the 15 events is ticketed separately, though there are some lesser free events. go.madison.com/kohlerbeer

Door County Beer Festival, June 15, Baileys Harbor

After becoming Door County’s first beer festival last year, this event returns with an above-average beer lineup and a nice roster of ancillary attractions.

There’s a schoolyard pick-’em-style rare/cellar beer swap, a solid slate of Americana music performers, and seminars on topics such as kombucha and coffee, as well as one from a local hop grower.

The festival grounds are just blocks from the soon-to-open Door County Brewing Co. and across the peninsula from Shipwrecked Brewing Co. in

Egg Harbor. $35 advance, $40 at the gate, $50 VIP.

www.doorcountybeer.com

The Great Taste Rival

Great Lakes Brewfest, Sept. 14, Racine

Calling it a rival to the Great Taste of the Midwest is a bit of a stretch for beer geeks, but consider the similarities.

Beautiful lakeside venue? Check: Racine Zoological Gardens, on the shore of Lake Michigan.

Great beer? Check: Nearly 100 brewers from around the region and the world are expected, not to mention nine homebrew clubs from three states converging on “Home Brew Island.” $45, $85 VIP. www.greatlakesbrewfest.com

The Out-of-Stater

Summer Beer Dabbler, July 20, St. Paul, Minn.

Wisconsin doesn’t quite have a monopoly on beer festivals. This one, at Upper Landing Park on the Mississippi River, features 65 breweries with a distinctly different flavor than you’ll get at the Badger State fests, along with nosh from the excellent Twin Cities gourmet food trucks.

The smaller Beer Dabbler fest I attended last year was very well done and a great excuse to jaunt across the border, check out a beer scene that’s going gangbusters right now, and bring some Surly back to Wisconsin.

Oh, and the Twins are in town that weekend. $35 advance, $45 at the gate. go.madison.com/beerdabbler

Wharfedale brewery taps into the appeal of beer festival

9:00am Tuesday 21st May 2013 in News

By Amanda Greaves

The Wheatley Arms in Ben Rhydding, which is holding a celebration of real ale

Ilkley’s newest brewery, which will be located within the grounds of the new Flying Duck Brew Pub in Church Street when it opens, is to support two forthcoming local beer festivals.

In preparation for the launch of the third incarnation of Wharfedale Brewery, Michael Allan, of Maxwell Road, under the guidance of Westville Avenue’s award-winning brewer Stewart Ross, have been testing out some new recipes for their “Resurrection Range” at Five Towns Brewery in Wakefield.

Wharfedale Blonde, which is described as a straw coloured floral session ale, has already been on the bars of over a dozen pubs and beer festivals in the area, whilst Wharfedale Best, a traditional, chestnut coloured Yorkshire bitter, is being specially produced as the “Festival Ale” for the Wheatley Arms ahead of their inaugural real ale celebration which kicks off on Wednesday.

Steve Benson, one of the managers at the Ben Rhydding pub, is behind the idea. “Wharfedale Blonde has been a tremendous success at the Wheatley since making its debut in January and very well received by our customers,” he said. “We are always keen to foster relationships with other local businesses and we had no hesitation in asking the team to produce a flagship beer for us, which we are sure will go down well.”

The Wheatley is to showcase ten beers across a five-week period, pitting the best of Yorkshire ales against the rest of Great Britain. Customers can vote for their favourites with the most popular going into a grand finale on Friday, June 28.

Wharfedale Brewery has also agreed to take over the sponsorship of the Swan Beer Festival, from Ilkley Brewery, when the Addingham pub hosts its third annual real ale extravaganza on the weekends of June 7 and October 25, where 25 beers from across the UK will rotate across each event.

Landlord Ian Frost said: “When we held our first festival in 2011 we had no idea it would prove so popular and we look forward to hosting two more events this year, which we hope everyone will enjoy. We are delighted to welcome Wharfedale Brewery as our new sponsors and wish them every success with their new venture.”

Spokesman for Wharfedale Brewery Jonathan Shepherd said: “Despite being at such an early stage in our development as a brewery, we have hit the ground running and we are delighted with the positive feedback we have received. It’s both an honour and a privilege to be asked to take such a major role in these beer festivals at two such well liked and respected local pubs.”

Refurbishment work is well underway at the former Albert Inn, which is expected to re-open as the Flying Duck in late July. The new brewing vessels have been manufactured and are awaiting delivery to their new home.

Jersey Shore Beer Fest 2013

NEPTUNE – It was raining and slightly chilly Saturday afternoon, but beers from more than 30 craft breweries were flowing at the newly reopened Headliner.

So for the hundreds who attended the Jersey Shore Beer Fest, it was a beautiful day.

“It’s like any other day at an outdoor shore bar, just with better tasting beer,” said event organizer Chris DePeppe, owner of the Pennsylvania-based TotalBRU Marketing and Beerheads.com. “If we had better weather, it’d be nice. But the breweries enjoyed it, it’s a great venue… we’ll do it again.”

Even though Mother Nature did not completely cooperate, those in attendance had nothing but complimentary things to say about the event – especially its laid-back atmosphere, which lacked the crowding issues that are common for other beer festivals.

“It’s awesome,” said Meghan Kain, of Neptune Township. “They have good beers and a really good selection.”

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The quality and variety of beers was what brought Wayne resident Kevin Hogan to the Jersey Shore Beer Fest.

“I just graduated from college, so I’ve been drinking a lot of low-quality beers,” Hogan said. “But there’s great craft beers here and I get to taste a lot of different kinds.”

Meanwhile, Belvidere resident Vicki Freilich was drawn to the event by her daughters Caitlin and Christina.

“My daughter lives in Belmar and sent me an email that said: ‘Beer Fest, are you in?’’’ said Freilich, who could not resist the invitation. “A family that drinks together, stays together.”

Bradley Beach resident Kristina Nicosia spent her birthday with a group of friends at the beer festival.

Nicosia said she enjoyed the variety of beers to sample, but admitted that her favorites were ones that were “fruity” and “ very girly.”

She also said that was impressed with the venue, which only reopened a few weeks ago for the first time since being flooded by Hurricane Sandy.

“It looks great,” she said. “They did a good job with the recovery.”

Best of the fests: Some beer bashes are worth the trip – La Crosse Tribune

There’s a dirty little secret about beer festivals: Functionally, nearly all of them are the same.

If everything goes well, you spend a few hours or so in a city park or other public space with a few hundred or so other people drinking a few dozen or so (tiny) beers from a few dozen or so brewers.

Beer novices can be blown away by the variety of beer they might not have known existed, while more advanced tasters can seek out the rare stuff and talk to brewers or brewery reps. And the company is almost always good, as beer people are nearly without fail engaging and interesting conversationalists, even without the liquid social lubrication flowing.

If this sounds like a good time, you don’t need to go to the elite festivals like Madison’s own Great Taste of the Midwest. There are only so many beers you can drink at a fest, whether there are 500 or 50 available. And in recent years the smaller fests have so proliferated that if you’re willing to burn a tank of gas, you have a full beer menu of solid options.

Most of Wisconsin’s festivals have been around a few years, long enough to figure out the number of toilets needed and how to keep out the patrons who are just looking to get sloshed. So the best way to pick one is simply to pick a date or location and see what’s out there.

Here are a few fests in otherwise-appealing summer vacation destinations that might add to the value of a road trip. All have beer and some kind of food or snacks, most have reduced-cost or free designated driver tickets, many have live music and shuttles to mitigate the post-fest drunkenness, and one has a beer beauty contest.

The North Woods

Great Northern Beer Festival, June 8, Eagle River

Camping up north is a rite of Wisconsin summers, and this festival is held on the grounds of the Hi-Pines Campground. The beer lineup looks to be par for the small-festival course, with a local homebrewers club also pouring. Eagle River is home to Tribute Brewing, founded by Marc Summers, who also started this festival. $30 advance, $35 at the gate, though tickets often sell out early. www.greatnorthernbeer

festival.com

Lac du Flambeau Brewfest, July 27, Minocqua

With smaller festivals sharing many breweries in their lineups, setting becomes a key variable, and Lac du Flambeau’s is excellent. It’s in Torpy Park, under soaring white pines on the shore of Minocqua Lake on the city’s downtown island — and right next door to Minocqua Brewing Co. $25 advance, $30 at the gate, with proceeds going to charities. lacduflambeau

brewfest.com

Metro Milwaukee

Wisconsin Beer Lovers Festival,

June 15, Glendale

OK, so this beer festival is basically in a shopping center, Bayshore Town Center, in Milwaukee’s northern ’burbs. But don’t let that turn you off; it’s probably the best non-Great Taste beer fest I’ve been to, thanks to the food dimension it adds at a reasonable price.

Each of the more than 30 brewers, all from Wisconsin, is paired with a restaurant, bakery or cheesemaker that offers a bite-sized morsel chosen to match up with one or more of the brewer’s beers.

All of this happens a few stones’ throws from the HQ of one of the original Wisconsin craft brewers: Sprecher Brewing Co., which has a gift shop and offers tours (call ahead). $40. wisconsinbeer

loversfest.com

Milwaukee Brewfest, July 27, Milwaukee

The setting rules at Milwaukee Brewfest, which will take over the Coast Guard Pavilion (a glorified park shelter) at the downtown lakefront McKinley Park for its fourth year this summer.

Among the attractions is the coronation of the Brewfest Queen, quite a title in Brew City.

On the way home, consider a stop at the outstanding Sweet Mullets Brewing in Oconomowoc, just 10 minutes or so off I-94. $40 advance; $45 at the gate; $60 VIP advance; $65 VIP at the gate. www.milwaukee

brewfest.com

The Resort Areas

Kohler Festival of Beer, May 31-June 2, Kohler

Beer events go highbrow in this weekend of events at The American Club.

Whether you’d like to golf a round at Blackwolf Run with a few specialty beer samples thrown in ($157), have a four-course, beer-paired dinner at the resort’s signature restaurant ($78) or go on a “pub crawl” with beer flights at several American Club venues ($52), this event has big spenders covered. There is a traditional beer festival ($70) on Saturday.

Each of the 15 events is ticketed separately, though there are some lesser free events. go.madison.com/kohlerbeer

Door County Beer Festival, June 15, Baileys Harbor

After becoming Door County’s first beer festival last year, this event returns with an above-average beer lineup and a nice roster of ancillary attractions.

There’s a schoolyard pick-’em-style rare/cellar beer swap, a solid slate of Americana music performers, and seminars on topics such as kombucha and coffee, as well as one from a local hop grower.

The festival grounds are just blocks from the soon-to-open Door County Brewing Co. and across the peninsula from Shipwrecked Brewing Co. in

Egg Harbor. $35 advance, $40 at the gate, $50 VIP.

www.doorcountybeer.com

The Great Taste Rival

Great Lakes Brewfest, Sept. 14, Racine

Calling it a rival to the Great Taste of the Midwest is a bit of a stretch for beer geeks, but consider the similarities.

Beautiful lakeside venue? Check: Racine Zoological Gardens, on the shore of Lake Michigan.

Great beer? Check: Nearly 100 brewers from around the region and the world are expected, not to mention nine homebrew clubs from three states converging on “Home Brew Island.” $45, $85 VIP. www.greatlakesbrewfest.com

The Out-of-Stater

Summer Beer Dabbler, July 20, St. Paul, Minn.

Wisconsin doesn’t quite have a monopoly on beer festivals. This one, at Upper Landing Park on the Mississippi River, features 65 breweries with a distinctly different flavor than you’ll get at the Badger State fests, along with nosh from the excellent Twin Cities gourmet food trucks.

The smaller Beer Dabbler fest I attended last year was very well done and a great excuse to jaunt across the border, check out a beer scene that’s going gangbusters right now, and bring some Surly back to Wisconsin.

Oh, and the Twins are in town that weekend. $35 advance, $45 at the gate. go.madison.com/beerdabbler

Open Wide For These Upcoming Beer Festivals

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Beer week means every week for most of us, but the official American Craft Beer Week celebrates the sudsy stuff beginning today through May 19th. The Brewers Association organized tons of events happening all across the country, including several local tastings and other beer-centric gatherings. There are also upcoming festivals at Eataly and the craft beer and food festival Savor on the horizon as well.

The headliner event in New York City goes down Thursday, May 16th at the New York Beer Company, where the first ever American Craft Beer Week Coast to Coast Toast brings together NYC Brewers Guild members for drinking and toasting. Pints will be poured from local breweries like Bronx, Chelsea Brewering Co, Sixpoint and Shmaltz starting at 7 p.m., with everyone raising their glasses for the big nationwide toast at 8 p.m.

From May 17th through the 27th, brewmaster and Birreria Partner Teo Musso will put the spotlight on Italian craft beers with the Eatalian Beer Festival. Musso will offer four beers named for their alcohol content—4, 6, 8 and 10 % ABV—for $5 with unique dish pairings at most of the Eataly restaurants. The restaurant-market is also offering a beer and cheese pairing at their Eccellenze Corner for $10 during the beer festival.

Fast forward to June when Savor comes to town, bringing together brewers and chefs for two days of drinking and dining. Try out barrel aged fruit beers or explore different types of lager beers at the many events taking place at the Metropolitan Pavilion on June 14th and 15th. You can also check out events going on around the festival, like a Meet the Brewers from Long Island event at Jimmy’s No. 43 on Saturday, June 15th.

2013 beer festivals in Wisconsin – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Nice weather and beer go together like, well, cheese and a burger.

Here are a few upcoming beer festivals – some of them extending the season, not that there’s anything wrong with that. You might want to put these on your calendar:

April 20: Dairy State Beer and Cheese Fest in Kenosha

May 3-12: Madison Craft Beer Week

May 31-June 2: Kohler Festival of Beer

June 1: 10th annual Beer Barons’ World of Beer Festival

June 15: Door County Beer Festival

June 15: Wisconsin Beer Lovers Festival

July 20: Milwaukee Firkin Fest in Cathedral Square

July 27: Milwaukee Brewfest

Aug. 10: Great Taste of the Midwest in Madison

Sept. 14: Great Lakes Brew Fest in Racine

Sept. 14: Thirsty Troll Brew Fest

Sept. 21: Egg Harbor Ale Fest

Oct. 26: Brew Fest GB in Green Bay

Are There Too Many Beer Festivals in Chicago? – Chicago magazine

photo: Hilary Higgins / Redeye

The Chicago Beer Festival was held at Union Station on March 30.

Want to have one more round? There is another new beer festival in Chicago this year.

On Saturday, May 4, Dolphin (2200 N. Ashland Ave., 773-750-8090) will host the aptly named Tap, featuring neighborhood breweries Moonshine and Piece and craft brew havens like Map Room and Fatpour. A $35 ticket from Brown Paper Tickets ($45 at the door) buys ten 6-ounce pours, a commemorative glass, and food pairings.

Sounds fun—and kind of familiar. By our rough count, the city already has five big beer festivals, and we’ve heard of at least five new ones this year.

Chicago is nothing if not beer obsessed, and drinking all day in large groups is a time-honored tradition. But we got to wondering: Do we have too many beer festivals? Is such a thing possible?

Here are the results of a totally unscientific poll:

“I support beer festivals. But my favorable opinion has less to do with whether I enjoy them, and more that they are good for the regional craft beer ecosystem on the whole.

Last year, for example, I interviewed this guy named Rob Sama who was relaunching the “first” Chicago craft beer, Baderbrau, in time for the Hoptacular. Not only was his beer going to be poured at the event, but he was going to be there talking to people about his cryogenic yeast strains and formulations.

That sort of peek behind the curtain helps get fans behind regional products and creates a fanbase for them. Another case in point: Dark Lord Day, which is coming up at the end of the month. I mean, holy shit. That is one of the hottest tickets in town, and it’s not even in town. It’s in an industrial park in Indiana—but totally worth the trip.”

—Cassie Walker Burke, executive editor

“I am of the opinion that there is probably an overabundance of beer festivals, but I would prefer that situation to the risk of running out of beer completely.”

—Harry Sawyers, web editor

“I fear it’s becoming saturated. And they’re not cheap! I’m personally going to stick to the ones I know and love (namely, Beer Under Glass) and only add newbies to my repertoire if they’re really out of the ordinary.”

—Carly Boers, associate editor

“Obviously beerfests are popular. Hell, beer is popular. How many taps are there at Howells Hood? I just don’t get it. I am crazy bored by the whole subject.”

—Penny Pollack, dining editor

“I hate festivals in general, even when what they’re proffering are things that I tend to like (punk rock, beer, literature). They’re always hot and crowded and full of people who belong indoors. In other news, I hate rainbows and unicorns and happiness.”

—Jeff Ruby, dining critic

“I say yay to beerfests. There are never enough opportunities to be in a room (or street) where craft brews outpour Bud Light and MGD.”

—Jessica Nikolich, editorial intern

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Hop On Over to Two Beer Festivals This Weekend

global taphouse.jpg image viaIt seems that once spring arrives, it’s time to bust out some brews. And we are so down with that.

This Saturday, April 27, Global Brew Tap House Lounge (112 South Buchanan Street Suite 1, Edwardsville; 618-307-5858) will host the Edwardsville Spring Beer Festival and Ferguson Brewing Company (418 S. Florissant Road, Ferguson; 314-521-2220) will celebrate its second annual Brewfest.

The Edwardsville Spring Beer Festival will run from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. in Edwardsville City Park, and admission is free. Ferguson Brewfest will run from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m., so really you have no excuse not to attend both.

After the response to the Edwardsville Fall Beer Festival last November was so outstanding, Laura High, co-owner of Global Brew Tap House Lounge, decided to make it a biannual event.

“The response has been so positive,” High says. “Last year when we were planning, we had no idea what the response would be. Our goal was 300 people, and we had more than 1,500 in the first two hours. This year we’re planning on a lot of people. We’re doubling everything — all the volunteers, all the food and all the beer — this year.”

The festival is free, but you can buy beer tickets to taste beers from twenty different craft breweries from across the U.S. Local breweries will also have selections there, of course. Edwardsville restaurants Bella Milano, the Cup, Cleveland-Heath, Bigelo’s Bistro, 222 Artisan Bakery and Craft Chophouse will provide food for the event, but make sure you have cash on hand for them.

global brew.jpg image viaA portion of the proceeds from all food and drink sales will go to Hope Animal Rescues, an Illinois-based no-kill shelter.

“We have lots of different passions,” High says, “so we’re trying to spread the love around. We’re all pet lovers, and it’s really great when you can help out a cause that’s near and dear to your heart.”

Hope Animal Rescues will have dogs at the event, and visitors can apply to be fosters or to adopt. No dogs will be adopted from the event, as Hope likes to do thorough background checks for its pooches, but dogs make any event more fun.

High anticipates the lovely weather holding out for the event, but, she says, “if it’s not gorgeous weather, we’re just gonna get wet.” As long as there’s beer, man.

Global Brew Tap House Lounge opened in Edwardsville two years ago, and High and her business partners (husband Ryan High and friend Ryan Lowe — no joke!) recently opened another branch in O’Fallon. The bar has 50 beers on tap and another 200 in bottles, as well as a select stock of wine.

Global Brew also has a mobile brew van, which High describes as “the coolest ice-cream truck known to man.” It’s essentially a refrigerated truck with taps, so yeah, coolest ice-cream truck ever.

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