My Guide to Cleveland Beer Week 2012

With so many different Cleveland Beer Week options to choose from in 2012 it can be very hard to pick which events to go to.   I'm going to try to make your life a little easier because I'm going to give you my opinion on what I think are the best of the best on a nightly basis.  These are by no means the only events going on during the week, so if you want to check out the entire list of Cleveland Beer Week events, just click here! Chances are you'll see me attending one of the events listed below each night! (This list will be updated from now until Cleveland Beer Week is over!) Updated 10/19/12

Friday the 19th

This is an easy one for me, the Collaboration Crawls are simply the place to be! Cleveland Beer Week's official opening ceremony, the Collaboration Kickoffs will feature 5 retail locations per neighborhood (East 4th, Lakewood, Tremont, Ohio City, Coventry) pouring collaboration beers specially brewed by NEO breweries for Cleveland Beer Week. These are small-batch brews and will not be bottled. Taste all brews here while you can; they will only be available in very limited supply elsewhere during CBW! Participating breweries are (1) Great Lakes and Cellar Rats: Wet-Hopped Pale Ale, (2) Market Garden , Rocky River Brewing and Indigo Imp: Tallboy, a wet-hopped brown ale, (3) Brew Kettle and Willoughby Brewing: Hoppy Hellesbock, (4) Buckeye Brewing, Ohio Brewing and Black Box: Nut Brown Ale with Maple Syrup, (5) Fat Heads and Chardon BrewWorks: Smoked Maple Imperial Bacon Stout, and (6) Thirsty Dog, Cornerstone Brewing, and LagerHeads: Belgian Style Dubble with Plums.

The Cleveland Craft Beer Community will be having our meet up at the Tremont location...more details on that to follow!