Fat Head's IPA Fest 2012 Info and Giveaway

On a blog related note, I know I have taken a good while off rating beers. Honestly, I got tired of rating and just felt like enjoying a beer without having to take notes and write it up.  My plan going forward is simple, I plan to write up 1-2 beer reviews a month.  I want to balance my reviews between beers that are available locally and beers that are not sold in Ohio that you should look for/try to trade for.   If you have suggestions for local beers you'd like me to review, feel free to email, tweet, or facebook me what beer you'd like me to review. Cheers

Now...On to Fat Head's IPA Fest on October 6th!

Tickets are currently on sale now for $30 in advance and for $35 at the door.

Your ticket includes: Event Entry, 5oz Souvenir Tasting Glass, 15 sample tickets and Live Music.  During the event you will have a chance to vote for People’s Choice award while certified beer judges will determine who gets the Gold Medals for Best IPA, Best Imperial/Double IPA, and Best In Show.   There will also be T-shirts, and Food available at an additional cost.

So far the Brewery/Beer list looks like this: UPDATED 10-2-12

• Columbus Brewing Bohdi Double IPA, Fools Gold Dry Hopped American Wheat
• Market Garden Brewery Centennial Extra IPA
• Nano Brew Particle Accelerator
• Thirsty Dog 330 Summit IPA, Citra Dog IPA
• Willoughby Brewing Co. Cosmic IPA, Aramis Pale Ale
• Ohio Brewing O'Hoppy Ale IPA
• Cornerstone Brewing "Seven" IPA
• Hoppin' Frog: Goose Juice Rye IPA, Hop Heathen
• Lagerhead's Tyranny IPA
• Stone 16th Anniversary IPA, Ruination IPA
• Three Floyd's Dreadnaught Imperial IPA 

Just added to the list!

• Fat Head's Head Hunter, Hopstalker, Hop JuJu & Sunshine Daydream
• Avery Dugana
• Bear Republic Racer 5
• Brew Kettle White Rajah
• Elevator Brewing Barrel Aged Wicked Goat, Big Vic Mogabi Wheat IPA
• Helltown Idle Hands
• East End Big Hop Harvest IPA
• Oskar Blues Deviant Dale's
• Full Pint Chinookie
• Great Lakes Commodore Perry
• Ballast Point Sculpin
• Bell's "This One Goes to 11"

As I get more information on the brewery/beer commitments I'll update this post, but as of right now this looks pretty darn good!!

Up for grabs in the Giveaway are 2 tickets to either the day session or the evening session. 

And the winner is....Comment #7 from Ryan!  Congrats and enjoy the IPA Fest!

There are 3 ways to Enter The Giveaway

1. Leave one comment on this post telling me that you would like to win, and which beer from the list you are most looking forward to drinking.

2. Share this post on Facebook by posting this link:  http://hops.me/5bw4

Then come back here and post a comment with your Facebook link.  You can only do this once, and it counts as one entry.

3. Share this on Twitter: 

I want to win 2 tickets to the @FatHeadsBeer IPA Fest from @CleFoodandBrews http://hops.me/5bw4 #CraftBeer 
Then come back here and post a comment with your Twitter link. This will count as one entry. You can do this every single day.  Just make sure to leave a comment each time you tweet!

Rules:

--You have until Saturday  September 29th, 2012 at 9:00am EST to enter.

--The winner will be picked at random using Random.org.   
--Only comments  with links left on this post will count.  If you tweet, facebook or enter in any other way be sure to leave a comment here telling me you did it with the link to that post.  
--You must leave a SEPARATE comment for each Entry, otherwise your entry will only count once.  

--Winner has 24 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. 
--Tickets will be held at the door for the winner.

Disclosure:  I've been granted access to the event to taste beers and to review the event.