Houston Beer Week - The Draft

I'd like to call all of the local beer folks out to attend the final event of beer week. This is called The Draft (last year was Monsters of Beer). It's on 11/17.

There is going to be all kinds of beer from different breweries. Enjoy local chefs, craft beer, rare beer, cigars, and auctions for some cool stuff (last year they had Art Kegs and some really cool beer verticals). There will also be a bottle share as well.

Information can be found here. http://thedraftfestival.com/

This is a charity event that is a blast. If you opt into the bottle share, there will be even more opportunity to get rare beer.

If interested, message me and I'll help you out with discount tickets. The discount is good until tomorrow, so act fast. Even at full price this festival is a great time. I'm not just saying this as a volunteer, I've been as an attendee as well.

Too keep in touch about the even, you can use the following on Twitter and Facebook.

@houstonbeerweek
@thedraftfest
facebook.com/houstonbeerweek
facebook.com/LiveItBig

 

I know you Houstonians want to come drink good beers!

 

Today is the last chance to take advantage of the special pricing! Send me a message and I'll help you out. I want to see more people involved in this!

 

I haven't heard any details. They have spoiled a few things on twitter, but I honestly don't remember what they were. I did hear there will be a certain beer from a Houston brewery that people have been chasing all week with varied degrees of success that also may have been in some sort of barrel.

I suggest following the 2 twitter users I posted for the most up to date info on The Draft.

 

Yup, it's a cash grab. The charities that are getting the proceeds for this just want your money so they can be rich.

Seriously, this is an event for charity. A lot of us are volunteering our valuable time to help with this. This is not a Houston Beer Festival. There won't be fifty BMC booths littered everywhere. This is a craft beer festival.

I went last year and there was a lot of good beer. It was well worth the price of entry. I got to talk a lot of craft beer, enjoy music, try some great food, and have an enjoyable day. Well worth it.

And if you don't think Ten Fidy is a special beer, you must not like good beer. How often do you see Ten Fidy on draft? It's usually once a year and it goes fast. Point in case, I tried to get some last night at Saucer Sugar Land and was told it was sold out by 5pm.

This is not going to be a rare beer tasting (although the bottle share, should you choose to attend that, should provide harder to find beers), but rather a beer festival. Knowing the planners of the event, and what they've gotten in the past, there will be some neat beers at the main event.

 

I don't have an electronic list of breweries, but I can type one out later.

Breweries like to bring special casks of beer to this event. There will be good beers. If I knew what there was, I'd tell you, but I don't. What I do know is that The Draft is a great beer festival.

Rarity of beer depends on the individual. There is plenty of stuff that I've had on many occasions and may not be exciting to me, but may be everything another person could hope for. Even though I've had a ton of things, there will be beers I am excited to try.

Expectations should be realistic based on the fact that it is a large scale charity beer festival.

I think it's in poor taste that you are trying to put down a charity event for not being what it was never meant to be.

 

Thanks for posting that. I've been out of pocket and couldnt post it.

 

I've gotten word that the special pricing will continue through tomorrow.

Go get $10 off now. MSG me for details.

Some new info:

• Ninfa's Navigation will be bringing food!
• Antone's will be bringing food!
• El Hidalguense is bringing lamb and goat tacos (which are just insanely good)
• Richard Flores is roasting 300 lbs of pork meat for Pulled Pork Sliders

And ALL of this food is included in the ticket price (which no other beer festival does, BTW).
Beer specifics are starting to leak out on twitter and facebook so make sure you follow!

 

need Moar People!

It's going to be super fun! Plus, if you don't like me, you can throw a beer at me! Win!

It would actually be funny to have a Charity dunk tank. You get plunged into beer!