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Creative Loafing Beer Fest ‘06
• Sat., June 17, 2006, 2-7 p.m.
• Woodruff Park, downtown Atlanta
• Tickets are $20 advance/$30 door/$10 designated driver• Includes souvenir sampling cup and beer fest koozie
• About 100 beers for sampling and food for purchase
• Live bands from 2:30-7 p.m.
• Interactive games
• Creative Loafing Mobile Podcasting Studio will be doing polling, man-on-the-street interviews about beer, and giveaways
• 105.3 the Buzz will be at the event with the station van to do giveaways and play music
• atlanta.creativeloafing.com/beerfest
Great Decatur Beer Tasting Festival
• Sat., Oct. 21, 2006, 1-6 p.m. Decatur Square
• Hundreds of the finest local and international beers available for tasting
• Live music and food
• Entry fee includes special tasting glass ($30)
Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting
• Sat., Jan. 27, 2007, 4-7 p.m. Sweetwater Brewing Company
• Sample 15 unique, cask-conditioned ales from local breweries
• Live Celtic music
• View Sweetwater’s new tasting room
• $25 tickets (all proceeds to benefit the Atlanta Humane Society)
• Limited to 250 people
• www.classiccitybrew.com/acat.html
Classic City Brew Fest
• April 2007; Foundry Park Inn, Athens, Ga.
• Samples of regional and world beer
• Live music
• T-shirt/collectibles booth
• www.classiccitybrew.com/brewfest.html
Notoberfest East Atlanta Beer Festival
• May 2007; East Atlanta Village
• Second annual event, presented by Sweetwater Brewing and East Atlanta Village
• Nearly 100 beers from across the globe
• Entry fee includes sampling glassware and koozie
• $25, 21-and-over