WHAT: The Great American Beer Tasting
WHERE: Fifth Third Field, 220 N. Patterson Blvd., Dayton
WHEN: 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9
COST: $25 in advance, $35 day of the event; designated driver tickets are $5. Participants receive 20 samples of beer, a custom Hoegaarden sampling glass and one raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets will be sold. Must be 21 years or older to attend.
Beers to be sampled at Great American Beer Tasting by table:
TABLE 1 — Stella Artois; Leffe; Hoegaarden
TABLE 2 —Bud Light Lime Lime-A-Rita; Bud Light Lime Straw-Ber-Rita; Bud Light Lime Mang-O-Rita; Bud Light Lime Raz-Ber-Rita; Bud Light Lime Apple-Ahhh-Rita; Wild Blue
TABLE 3— Day Fresh Budweiser; Bud Light Platinum; Budweiser Black Crown; LandShark; Rolling Rock
TABLE 4 — St. Pauli Girl Lager; Beck’s; Beck’s Sapphire
TABLE 5— Boddingtons Pub Ale; Bass Ale; Kirin
TABLE 6 — RedHook ESB; RedHook LongHammer IPA; RedHook Audible Ale;. RedHook KCCO
TABLE 7 — Goose Island Honker’s; Goose Island IPA; Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat; Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat Pale Ale
TABLE 8 — Goose Island Matilda; Goose Island Sofie; Goose Island Pepe Nero; Goose Island Endless IPA; Goose Island Lolita
TABLE 9 (Non-Alcoholic) — Monster Green; Monster Rehab Tea + Lemonade; Monster Zero Ultra; Java Monster Loca Moca; Muscle Monster Peanut Butter Cup
TABLE 10 — Kona Longboard Island Lager; Kona Big Wave; Kona Fire Rock; Kona Castaway
TABLE 11 — Shock Top Belgian White; Shock Top Raspberry Wheat; Shock Top Lemon Shandy; Shock Top Honeycrisp Apple Wheat
TABLE 12 — Yuengling Traditional Lager; Yuengling Light Lager; Yuengling Original Black & Tan; Yuengling Dark Brewed Porter; Yuengling Lord Chesterfield Ale; Yuengling Summer Wheat
TABLE 13 — Widmer Citra Blonde Summer Brew; Widmer Upheaval IPA; Widmer SXNW (South by Northwest); Widmer Barrel Aged Brrrbon
TABLE 14 Draught — Johnny Appleseed; Goose Island Ogden; Widmer Vanilla Barrel Aged Brrrbon ’13
TABLE 15 Gluten Free — Stella Artois Cidre; Michelob Ultra Light Cider; Redbridge; Omission Lager; Omission Pale Ale
TABLE 16 Gluten Free — Angry Orchard Green Apple Hard Cider; Angry Orchard Elderflower Hard Cider; Woodchuck Amber Hard Cider; Woodchuck Summer Hard Cider
TABLE 17 — Duvel Belgian Golden Ale; Lindemans Framboise; Ommegang Witte; Curious Traveler Shandy
TABLE 18 — Shiner White Wing; Anchor IPA; Anchor California Lager; Magic Hat Wilhelm Scream; Magic Hat Dream Machine
TABLE 19 — Sierra Nevada Flipside; Lucky Buddha; Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale; Deschutes Black Butte Porter; Deschutes Inversion IPA
TABLE 20 — Uinta Hop Nosh; Uinta Sum’r; Ithaca Flower Power IPA; Samuel Adams Rebel IPA
TABLE 21 — Victory Hop Devil IPA; Victory Dirt Wolf Double IPA; Victory Golden Monkey; Mt. Carmel Nut Brown Ale
TABLE 22 — Thirsty Dog Barktoberfest; 21st Amendment IPA; Atwater Vanilla Java Porter; Rogue Farms Marionberry;
TABLE 23 — Special samplings throughout the day — product is first-come, first served while supplies last)
2:30 p.m. — Rogue Voodoo Doughnut
3:15 p.m. — Widmer Raspberry Russian Imperial Stout ‘13
4:15 p.m. — Rogue Beard Beer
Beer lovers will have their pick of dozens of brews during the seventh annual Great American Beer Tasting from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at Fifth Third Field, 220 N. Patterson Blvd.
The event, a partnership between the Dayton Dragons and Heidelberg Distributing, attracts more than 1,000 brew fans, according to Brandy Guinaugh, the minor league team’s vice president of sponsor services.
“It is a fanstastic event,” Guinaugh said. “This is one of those opportunities for people to explore downtown and what downtown has to offer.”
Admission is $25 in advance and $35 the day of the tasting. Designated driver tickets are $5 each. Participants must be 21.
Visit daytondragons.com/beertasting to order advance tickets or call (937) 228-2287.
More than 80 beers — the largest amount and widest variety of beers in Great American Beer Tasting history — will be sampled in a covered area. The tasting happens rain or shine, but as Guinaugh pointed out, the weather is expected to be clear.
“It will be a huge event for us on Saturday,” she said.
The Great American Beer Tasting is not connected directly to the fourth annual Dayton Beer Week, which starts Aug.16, or Alefest, a craft beer festival set for Aug. 23 on City of Dayton-owned land behind Wegerzyn Gardens MetroPark, 1301 E. Siebenthaler Ave.
Craft and and widely known beer selections will be available at the Great American Beer Tasting.
Each taster will be given a punch card for 20 tastes, plus the Budweiser Day Fresh Beer. The event also will feature cornhole and carnival-style games available on the field. Each sampling is 4 ounces.
Attendees have a shot at Anheuser-Busch and Dragons raffle prizes that include a Budweiser recliner, a Bud Light mini fridge, a Landshark cornhole set, a Michelob Ultra bicycle, a Bud Light speaker tower and Dragons autographed memorabilia. These items will be given away toward the end of the event.
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