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Celebrate Blues and Brews at Festival Park by JANICE BURTON If you're looking to have a good time on Saturday, June 1, you don't have to HogWild IPA, HotRod Red and the Devil's Tramping Ground Belgian Tripel. • Barrel Trolley Brewing Company out of Rochester, N.Y., represented by Mutual look far. Simply take a drive down to Festival Park, where you can enjoy two sultry Distributors, will showcase its Barrel Trolley Shandy. Also represented by Mutual, is pleasures — beer and the blues, as the Cape Fear Regional Theatre brings back the Saranac Brewery, which will feature Saranac Summer Shandy, Blueberry Blonde and Blues and Brews Festival. a White IPA. The Blues and Brews Festival, an annual fundraiser for the theatre, has been a • R.A. Jeffreys will feature a number of breweries, including: favorite community event for a number of years. First held at Campbellton Landing, * Blue Point Brewing Company, Long Island, N.Y., with a Toasted Lager Hoptical the festival has grown dramatically over the years, which lead to the move to Festival Illusion, a White Ipa and a Summer Ale. Park. Last year, more than 2,500 people sipped their way through the festival, which * Carolina Brewery, out of Pittsboro, N.C., with a Sky Blue Golden Ale, Copperline has event organizers setting their sights a little higher this year. Amber Ale, Flagship IPA and Bullpen Pale Ale. "We are shooting for 3,000 * Natty Greene's, a Greensboro-based brewery, will have a people this year," said Jenny Southern Pale Ale, Buckshot Amber Ale, Elm Street India Pale Ale, Deviere, the chair of this year's Shock Top, Shock Top Apple, Landshark and Black Crown available event. This is Deviere's first for tasting. year as chair, and she hopes * Blue Point Brewing Company, of Long Island, N.Y., will have that some minor tweaks to the Toasted Lager, Hoptical Illusion, White Ipa and Summer Ale. already successful festival will * Carib Brewery will showcase its Carib Lager and Mackeson Stout. help bring in more people. * Goose Island will showcase 312, Honkers and a Summer IPA. "This is the first year we have * Fayetteville's own Huske Hardware will pour its Watermelon had a presenting sponsor," Wheat Beer and its Ala Yeah Pale Ale, Farmhouse and Spring of explained Deviere. "Mellow Perles Light Lager. Mushroom is partnering with us * Wild Blue from Anheuser-Busch. as the presenting sponsor. They * Lonerider Brewery our of Raleigh, N.C., will have The Preacherwill cater the entire VIP tent, as Saison, a Shotgun Betty Hefe Weizen and Sweet Josie, a Brown Ale. well as have a raffle for a lucky * The Lion Brewery, of Wilkes-Barre, Penn., will feature a couple to win pizza for a year." Lionshead Pilsner and a Stegmaier High Drive. The VIP ticket was introduced * Triangle Brewery will bring a Belgian Golden, a Triangle White several years ago and has been and a Best Bitter. a tremendous success. VIP Blues and Brews — from Campbellton Landing to Festival Park. • Carolina Brewing, of Holly ticket holders gain entrance to Springs, N.C., will bring a Carolina the festival an hour earlier than Pale Ale, Carolina Nut Brown Ale, normal ticket holders and their ticket includes dinner in the VIP tent. Carolina India Pale Ale and Carolina There will be a tasting featuring all the breweries during the VIP hour. Those Summer Ale. holding VIP tickets will have the opportunity to sample the brews and vote for • Fayetteville's Mash House will the Best in Show. The winning brewery will have a banner in front of their tent feature a Blonde, Irish Red, IPA and proclaiming its beer the Best in Show. Maibock. For those who do not purchase a VIP ticket, there will be more food vendors • Railhouse Brewery, out of on hand than in years past. That is one of the tweaks Deviere and the Blues Aberdeen, N.C., will pour a FCA IPA and Brews Committee made. "We don't allow outside food or drinks, so it and a Mastiff Oatmeal Stout. is important to have a big assortment of food for folks who are spending the • Raleigh Brewing Company will evening," said Deviere. feature a House of Clay Rye IPA and One of the biggest tweaks to the festival revolves around the music. a Czech Pilsner "One of the biggest areas that we have had people comment on over the past • Healy Wholsale will represent a couple of years is the music," she noted. "We have heard that folks think the number of brewers, including: music has been lacking; that we haven't paid as much love to the music and Fat Bastard is set to perform along with Kia Walker and * Boulevard Brewery with a bands as we should have. So we are correcting that this year." Old Habits. Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Blues lovers will be happy to know that there will be not one, but three great * Foothills Brewery showcasing blues acts performing this year. Hoppyum, Seeing Double and a Carolina Blonde Hefe. Kia Walker, a local performer will be on hand in the VIP tent beginning at 5 p.m. * Leinenkugel Brewery will pour Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy. On the mainstage, Old Habits, a Raleigh-based band, will belt out its mix of Blue * New Belgium Brewery will serve Fat Tire, 1554, Ranger IPA and Dig. Grass and Rock-A-Billy Blues. Old Habits will be followed by a band that Deviere * North American Brewery will pour Magic Hat #9. classifies as a dirty, old blues band, the Fat Bastard Blues Band out of Mebane, N.C. * Sierra Nevada Brewery will present Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and Sierra Nevada With the music covered, that brings us to the heart of the festival — the beer. Summerfest. "We will showcase more than 100 beers from all over the southeast," explained * 10th and Blake will have Crispin Cider, Blue Moon, Blue Moon Seasonal and Deviere. "With each (full-priced) ticket purchased, attendees will receive a Batch 19. commemorative glass for tasting." Tickets for the event are $35 for those tasting; $15 for general Nannette Walsh, a theatre volunteer, was in charge of organizing the brewers admission; and $50 for VIP admittance. The VIP Tent is open from for the events. Walsh brought together an eclectic mix of independent brewers and brewers who are represented by distributors. Two distributors, R.A. Jeffreys and Healy 4-5 p.m., with general admission beginning at 5 p.m. This year, credit cards can be used at Wholesale, will focus on some of their more non-traditional beers. JANICE BURTON, Associate Publisher, the gate. 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