Help me pick the next BeerAdvocate Fest in Cyberspace!

I love Stouts and IPAs as much as the next guy but, honestly, the range of craft beer has been constricted by those style and, to a lesser extent, the fruited sours. German, English and Belgian styles have been crushed. I like the idea for Barleywines but could really go for something to broaden people's palates.

 

I agree with Barleywine and Stout styles! And bourbon ales! Holiday themed.

 

Remember English ales? I think we need an English styles renaissance fest!

 

Coffee stouts. Ymmv.

 

Barleywine and/or stouts would be perfect for Q4 this year. Belgiums for Q2 next year, followed by sours for summer & pastry stouts for fall.
We need at least 2 events in cyberspace every year. Live drink-alongs are a lot of fun.

 

I agree - extreme stout, tripel and barkeywine!

 

Exteme Beer 2- stouts, trippels, barleywines and old recipes

 

Pick one or multiple regions and select hard to find beers from that region. I’m thinking top 250 beers that are abundant in the region where the brewery is but not available elsewhere. I’d buy it!

 

Barley wines would be great, as would fests that focus on individual countries - Belgium, Germany, England, etc. Another idea would be to do a rare beer style fest - pick the beer styles that are hardest for the average person to find - faro, happoshu, sahti, roggenbier, etc. and build a box around those. How about a box built around GABF medal winners?

 

I also like the idea of a cold weather seasonal / holiday beer fest...

 

Forgotten Fest…collection of beers from styles that are regularly overlooked or have been forgotten. Necromancer Brewing in Pittsburgh has been striving to bring back these styles, & I think they’d be a great invite to such a gathering.

 

Old ale please

Enjoy

 

Would love a Belgian Beer fest, they don't get enough love! Or a Stout fest would be great!

 

Fresh Hop Fest and I am buying that ticket!

 

Yep -Stouts and Barleywine and I’m for sure in!
Credit card is out right now.,.
Let’s Go Todd!

 

Another vote for barleywine.

In terms of timing, that week between Christmas and New Years is interesting to consider. I know plenty of folks travel and that it could be a mild pain for BA staff, but a ton of folks have off that week, are looking to drink some big beers and could ask for a box as a holiday gift. Big beers, a quality glass design or other swag, could potentially even up the price a little.

 

I vote stouts and porters. I think that covers a broad range of beers, from porters to Baltic porters, and dry stouts to milk stouts and imperials.

 

Stouts and Porters! Go ahead, cross that thin line.

 

I’ll try but drinking 16 ounces of 6 beers is too much. Make it smaller.

 

To your point, shipping often sucks around that time of year. Do they mail these boxes early?

 

Pumpkin beer.

Someone had to get that out of the way. Carry on, everyone.

Serious vote- barleywines and/or big stouts.

 

Advent calendar!

 

I like some of the out-of-the-box thinking of quite a few people, but everyone should (if they don't already) realize that to make this happen, BA has to pair with a brewers that have to take time in their production schedules to produce packaged offerings for the event. Presumably they would like to be profitable as well, or at least break even (maybe some good will for some of the better off partners).

And to bring it all together, they need to find about twelve like-minded breweries whose schedule can synchronize, to a degree. Stepping back, I can appreciate the effort that goes into it and will be interested in what comes together, especially if either of the heavy favorites works out.

 

Love the idea of a winter preparation fest and a good stout series but the heat is here for a while longer how about some farmhouse ales/american saison series for the heat.....

Cheers from Arizona.

 

The thing I love about EBF is getting to try beers with crazy ingredients. Some of the things that stood out to me over the last couple of years were Hot Cheetos and Taki’s, squid ink, mace, onions, hot dogs, mackerel, snuff and tobacco. Granted, I don’t believe I finished these completely at the time, or could in the future, but they are so much fun to try and I think that spirit shouldn’t be forgotten.

I’d also appreciate Utopias in can or maybe a miniature version of the normal container.

 

I would like to hear from Veteran Brewmasters and Hefeweizen or Belgium White Ales.

 

I would also like to see a Belgium inspired Fest.
No matter what fest is decided upon I would like to see the format used for the first three virtual events used for this one. I enjoyed the banter between you and Edgar along the brewers insights into their creations. The extreme box was no where as enjoyable.
No matter what I'm in.

 

…and everybody gets an Anabasis.

Hey, one can’t get that for which one does not ask.

 

#BiL. That is all,

 

A good marketing campaign for it would be Ales For ALS. And with the broad range of what an ale is, all the barleywine suggestions before me could still be made happy.

 

American Adjunct Lagers (you’ve gotta include Stag if you include the style) & Brown Ales, plain and nutted.

 

Stouts, Barleywines & Porters make sense to me. You could call it, “The Long Winter’s Dark - Fest”!

 

What's with the VR headset? What did I miss?

 

I liked the EBF in cyberspace, that was pretty good, I'd like to see that again, or even a Stout Fest like many others have eluded to!

 

I'm in!

 

Porters, please.

 

Virtual Beerfest in Winter? Hell yes!
Stouts, Porters, Winter Warmers, Barleywines, I sign up for any of it.
The virtual beer fests are always fun, keep them coming!
I might tap out on a sour beer fest, other than that, I am game!

 

Q4 '22 and/or Q1 '23? Good timing for the world's Winter Warmers, Barleywines & Bocks. Cheers!