GREAT ATLANTA BEER FEST 2015

Saturday, September 26th at 3pm

Location: Turner Field

It’s the best baseball memory you have: the crack of the bat, the crowd clapping and jumping, a familiar tune playing on the loud speakers. That’s what it feels like when you visit Turner Field: you’re favorite baseball memory, even if there isn’t any baseball being played at all. We’re back at the Great Atlanta Beer Fest like a beer fest with the atmosphere of a baseball game. It’s always a good time, despite the sprinkles in the air. Let’s jump into this year’s festival…

My favorite part of the fall is the influx of pumpkin and pumpkin beers, unfortunately there weren’t many to choose from at the beer fest. Most people said they brought what their distributors want them to bring regardless of season. Strike one for the distributors as variety is the spice of life, and all IPCP24nS3WEAA8YX7As isn’t something that excites me. I’m a dark beer/porter/sour kind of girl. But for the porters there was the Jekyll Smoked Porter, which is always a good, local porter full of malt and almost chocolatey. There was also and Starr Hill’s Pumpkin Porter, Boxcarr. It’s dark and strong with actual pumpkin added to the mash to make the right amount of pumpkin to porter. It was a little nutmeggy (yep, I like to make up words) on the end but overall pretty good.

One of the highlights beyond the beer, was that Southern Sky Brewing, and up and coming brewery had one of their first beer fest outings and they brought their Worlds Apart Ale. They say it’s a hybrid ale with a mix of Belgium white and an Irish red. That’s pretty spot on with a light beginning and ale end. It’s versatile beer that you can drink all year round. What I’m really looking forward to is the Schwarzchild Porter that Near told me drinks more like a stout. Sign me up!

The weather was rainy, misty and gloomy but the beers and the atmosphere made it all worth the day at Turner Field. Next year, maybe we’ll get a beautiful 70 degree day with all porters, stouts and pumpkin beers. Wouldn’t that be awesome? A girl can dream, can’t she? Now go and enjoy your favorite beer and look forward to the next beer fest! There’s always Boos and Brews on Halloween and several others each weekend until then.

4th Annual Brookhaven Chili Cook-Off

Date:  Saturday, October 10th
Time: 12pm to 6pm

About: On Saturday, October 10th, the Brookhaven Chili Cook-Off is a FREE family friendly festival event in heart of Brookhaven at new location: Brookhaven Park. They will have live music with Battlefield Collective, Drucker, and Behind the sun. Tickets include unlimited Chili & Brunswick stew tasting that starts at 12pm while supplies last. Get there early! There will be 70 plus Chili teams, as well as wine beer and liquor for sale. Amateurs could win up to $2500 in cash prizes for the best chili/food. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

Website/link for more information:

http://www.brookhavenchilicookoff.com/

Chalktoberfest 2015: Chalk and Beer Festival

Date:  Saturday, October 10th
Time: 11am to 5pm

FESTIVAL is also all day Saturday, October 10th and Sunday, October 11th

About: On Saturday, October 10th and Sunday, October 11th The Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art is proud to present Chalktoberfest, an exciting combination of their annual Chalk Festival with Marietta’s first Craft Beer Festival.  Join us on Marietta square as we embark on this year’s Chalktoberfest! The festival takes place October 10th and 11th and is free to the public.  The Craft Beer Festival takes place on October 10th between 11:00 – 5:00 and tickets can be purchased online.  The event will have over 100 different types of craft beers and MCMA has brought in approximately 50 sponsored,  professional artists  who will be painting the streets of Marietta. Enjoy your afternoon sampling craft beers, live music from local artists, watching professional Chalk Artists chalk the streets and eating great food at the beautiful downtown square of Marietta (about c/o Chalktoberfest.com website). The festival is free, the beer tasting is $35 for general admission and $75 for VIP.

Website/link for more information:

http://www.chalktoberfest.com/