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Raise Your Glass to These February Beer Festivals in Arizona, Ohio and Quebec

Besides the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day—we could take or leave that last one—February doesn’t have too much going on. It’s a great month to head somewhere warm to escape the winter weather, but it seems like this season hasn’t even been that chilly or snowy. That’s why we’re suggesting the old standby—drinking—to get you through this month. Here’s three beer festivals where you can toast to February:

Cincy Winter Beerfest

They’re preparing plenty of kegs, glasses, and other beer paraphernalia in preparation for this month’s frothy festival in Cincinnati. The fun takes place on February 10 and 11, and there are still plenty of tickets available for you and your drinking buddies. This year tickets will set you back $35 in advance of the party, and that’ll get you a snazzy souvenir cup—capable of holding five ounces—that you can refill up to 25 times. Things get underway each evening around 7:30pm, and the last call is just after 10pm so be sure to pace yourself.

The drinking take place at the Duke Energy Convention Center, and this year’s festival marks the end of the inaugural edition of the city’s beer week. Expect at least 300 different craft beers from here, there, and everywhere, and organizers are hoping for at least 10,000 beer fans to be in attendance. Brewers like Dogfish Head, Elevator, and Three Floyds are just some of the attendees planning to show off their lagers and ales. Organizers even have a spreadsheet of those planning to attend, so you can even take time to prepare your plan of attack.

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Porters, Lagers and Ales On Tap This Month at Three Winter Beer Festivals

The holidays might be over, but that doesn’t mean that the need to warm up with an adult beverage has gone away. Sure there aren’t any holiday beers at these festivals, but there are still plenty of winter puns available and brewers are doing their best to warm you up. Here’s three winter beer festivals arriving this January on three different weekends:

· Columbus Winter Beerfest – Columbus, Ohio:
When you think of craft brews and beers you might not think of Columbus, Ohio, but organizers of the Columbus Winter Beerfest are looking to change that. This year’s festival filled with winter warmers and hoppy ales takes place on January 14. The plan is to have like 250—or more—different beers from all over the place, and they’re expecting like 6,000 beer fans to enjoy each and every one. Things take place at the Greater Columbus Convention Center beginning at 6:30pm, and they even have hotel packages available at the local Hyatt in case you enjoy one too many.

Samples include pretty much every beer brewed in Central Ohio, as well as plenty of other options from outside the Buckeye State. Tickets will set you back $30 in advance, and that’ll get you 25 tickets for plenty of different samples including sips of Elevator Dirty Dick’s Brown Ale, Fat Heads Bumbleberry Ale, and Left Hand Milk Stout. Oh, and if you have a great time at this festival, be sure to check out their next event—there’s a summer beer festival in May as well.

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Winter Warmers and Holiday Ales for All at Three Seasonal Beer Festivals

It's the most wonderful time of the year—or at least that’s how the song goes—so what better way to celebrate the season than by downing a few cold ones. The winter ales and lagers have arrived, and it's almost time to enjoy each and every one of them. Pumpkin ales are shelved and there's more winter fun to be had in 2012, but for the remainder of 2011 here’s where to find some of the best seasonal beer festivals:

· Holiday Ale Festival 2011 – Portland, Oregon:
The very best of the bunch might just be in Portland, Oregon, as the annual Holiday Ale Festival is set to arrive in Pioneer Courthouse Square between November 30 and December 4. That’s right—there’s five total days in which to celebrate, and even if you attend each day you’ll probably miss a beer here or there. In total there are more than 40 breweries expected to be in attendance, and they’re bringing stuff you won’t find at the grocery store or bodega. We’re already thinking about Papa Noel’s Moonlight Reserve from Alameda Brewing and Drunken Elf Stout from Columbia River Brewing—although the Chocolate Mint Stout from Gilgamesh Brewing is tempting too.

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Get Your Fix of Seasonal Suds at These Pumpkin Beer Festivals

If all that candy is making you thirsty then we have a solution—pumpkin beer festivals! Here’s just a couple of this season’s offerings that are sure to satisfy your longing for lagers and ales of the pumpkin variety:

· Great Pumpkin Beer Festival:
Plenty of pumpkins will be harmed, but it’s all for a good cause at Elysian Brewing Company in Seattle. The brewery is celebrating yet another Great Pumpkin Beer Festival—this year is the seventh annual. You need to make your plans quickly, as things are scheduled for this weekend. There’s sessions on October 8 and October 9, and it’s all going down in the city’s Georgetown neighborhood. Tickets are $20 if you score them in advance, but if you need to get them at the door that’ll be $25.

Over 50 different pumpkin beers should be in attendance along with quite a number of beer enthusiasts. They’re even bringing some local food trucks to help you satisfy your beer munchies. The highlight of the festival is when the Great Pumpkin is tapped each day, and that’s when you can get your beer straight from an oversized pumpkin—awesome. Breweries from all over the place will be featured, but Elysian has 11 of their own offerings including Mr. Yuck Sour Pumpkin Ale, Headless Horsey, and PK-47 Pumpkin Malt Liquor—haha that’s great.

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A Couple Options for Scoring Sold-Out Tickets to The Great American Beer Festival

The granddaddy of all beer festivals is taking place later this month in Denver. It's the Great American Beer Festival and it runs from September 29 and October 1. There’s not just a few hundred beers and breweries here either, as this sucker will have more than 450 brewers in attendance with over 2,000 beers. There are four sessions spread across the three days of the year’s festival, and whichever one you pick is going to be a winner.

Hold on a sec. It's not just about guzzling either; this festival goes way above and beyond the traditional beer festival by including an on-site beer enthusiast bookstore, discussions from the American Homebrewers Association, and a farm-to-table pavilion. Expect plenty of samples from CAUTION: Brewing Company, Del Norte Brewing Company, and Glenwood Canyon Brewing Company, along with plenty of options from outside Colorado.

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Three September Beer Festivals for Cooling Down with a Cool One

The weather might be cooling down as the calendar flips to September, but that doesn’t mean that there's no longer a need for a refreshing adult beverage or three. If you’re feeling a little thirsty next month there’s always plenty of beer festivals on-tap, but here are three that we think are worth the price of admission:

· Portland Brew Festival:
If your weekend cookout plans fell through, there’s always Labor Day weekend in Portland, Maine. They’re trying to keep it a local affair with over 25 breweries from New England and at least 75 different offerings, so freshness is certainly on the menu. There are three sessions from which to choose—two on Saturday and one on Sunday—and each will set you back around $30. Just be sure to buy before you arrive, because apparently there’s no tickets at the door; it’s the law in Maine!

Brewery supply shops will be on hand to answer questions about which tubes, bottles, and pots you’ll need to brew the good stuff right at home. Admission includes 24—um, that's a lot—different tickets that you can happily exchange for a two-ounce pour of one of the beers on the menu. Atlantic Brewing Company, Baxter Brewing Company, and Sea Dog will just be a few of the breweries in attendance. Oh, and of course there will be a few opportunities to sample an offering or two from our friends over at Narragansett—here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women!

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Prepare for a Hangover Thanks to These Three August Beer Festivals

The summer is slowly winding down, but there’s still lots of August left to experience. If you’re still a little behind on your summer drinking schedule look to the few beer festivals left where you can combine the warm weather with some cold brews. Here’s just three festivals where you can enjoy the remaining days of the season:

· North Folk Craft Beer, BBQ, and Wine Festival:
If you’re headed to the Hamptons this weekend—and, ha, who isn’t—you might want to skip the water and stick to the events on the land. This Saturday, August 13 the Martha Clara Vineyard in Riverhead, New York is bringing 50 different brewers and 100 different beers to comingle with all those grapevines.

It’s rain or shine—and the weather looks fine—and tickets will set you back $70 at the gate or $55 in advance. You’ll get plenty of two-ounce samples of all the beer you can handle along with a BBQ sandwich from Maple Tree BBQ complete with choice of side dish.

Local beer options include Blue Point Brewing Company, Greenport Harbor Brewing Company, and Great South Bay Brewery, and of course there will be a few different wines to sample for those with a more sophisticated palette. Just be sure to make your mind up soon, as it's only a few days away and last year’s event sold out.

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Three July Beer Festivals to Help You Cool Down

It’s certainly starting to get pretty warm around the country, and one way to cool off is downing nice cold beer on a hot day. There are still plenty of hot days ahead—just in July alone—so here’s three spots to savor some summer sips before the end of the month::

· The Portland International Beerfest:
This suds celebration in Oregon boasts that it’s the ultimate world beer experience, but we’ll let you be the judge of that when you visit on July 15, 16, and 17. Organizers are promising more than 150 top beers from more than 15 different countries around the world. If you’d rather sample some beers that start a little closer to home, we’re pretty sure that there are some tasty local microbrews on tap as well.

The fun and the drinking will set you back $20 per person if you buy a spot in advance, but if you wait until the gate it will be $25. This gets you a tasting glass along with ten beer sample tickets—don’t worry more tickets are available for just $1 a piece. Stone Brewing, Flyer’s Brewery, and Naked City Brewery are just a couple of options that await you in a couple weeks in the North Park Blocks of the Pearl District.

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Drink to the Animals This Month at Three 'Zoo Brew' Events

If you’ve ever wanted to get drunk with a skunk now’s the month to do it. Zoos across the country have started to add alcohol to their animal lineup, and if you’re looking for something to do at the end of May there might just be some sort of Zoo-Brew festival in your neck of the woods. Here’s three that we think are worth checking out:

· Brew at the Zoo - Atlanta
The best way to cool off in Hotlanta is with a refreshing adult beverage—although we’ve heard they’re also pretty fond of their hometown Coca-Cola. Instead of downing a couple in your neighbor’s backyard over Memorial Day weekend it might be best to head down to the Atlanta Zoo where there’s plenty of ales and lagers to go along with all the critters.

The Brew at the Zoo takes place between 5:30 and 9:30pm on Saturday, May 28, and it offers a chance to rub elbows with all of the place’s famous animal residents along with unlimited samples of the sudsy stuff. Local breweries like Terrapin and SweetWater will be showing off their latest concoctions, and giant pandas, gorillas, and naked mole rats are also going to be hanging around to provide a little live entertainment. Tickets include admission to all the fun and exhibits and start at just $40 for most if purchased in advance.

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Fun, Food Trucks, and Unlimited Samples at This Weekend's LA Beer Fest

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, we have many suggestions, but the only catch for this one is that you need to be able to get to Los Angeles—sorry, we’ll try to give you more warning next year. This weekend is the third annual Los Angeles Beer Festival at the Sony Studios in Culver City, so after one too many you can sneak onto a hot set and make your very own cameo appearance.

Like most beer festivals there are two sessions and both take place this Saturday, April 9th. The first—for the early birds—runs from noon until 3pm. After a couple hours to clean up and to sweep away the stragglers, the second session will begin at 5pm and wrap around 8pm. Obviously beer will be front and center of this year’s sudsy shindig, but there will also be live music and plenty of the area’s best food trucks. The ability to eat delicious things from a truck had us interested before we even heard about the beer.

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Three Warm Weather Beer Festivals To Warm You Up

Need an adult beverage to warm you during the last few weeks of winter? If you’ve already tried to drink yourself warm and you still need a little assistance, we recommend heading south—or really far west. Here’s three beer festivals in the weeks ahead where you might even be able to snag a sip or two outside:

· Charlotte Craft Beer Week 2011:
The Queen City—Charlotte, not Cincinnati—started up their official love for beer last year, and apparently it was successful as they’re back for year number two. Things kick off on March 11 and run through March 20. There’s plenty of beverages to taste and try, as organizers are bringing plenty of craft beers, tasty food, and a little bit of entertainment to the city.

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Keep Toasting to 2011 with Three Winter Beer Festivals in January

Sure the majority of the holidays have come and gone, but that just means we need something new to entertain us until the summer warmth returns. There's still plenty of special winter beers and brews to sample, so here’s our picks for three festivals from which to take a sip or two this January.

· Denver’s Winter Brew Fest 2011:
Citizens of Denver know their beer, and they’re ready to celebrate their love of the sudsy stuff at the end of January. On Friday, January 28 the annual Winter Brew Fest is ready to welcome both craft brewers and mega breweries to Mile High Station to celebrate ales, lagers, and stouts. Expect at least 35 breweries from around the state, country, and world to bring over 90 different varieties of beverages to share. Best of all, some of the proceeds of your admission go to benefit the Swallow Hill Music Association.

Tickets are still available, but we’d act quickly, as we’re sure a beer festival in Colorado is guaranteed to sell out. Tickets are $30 in advance and include unlimited tastings of the festival’s best brews. You’ll even get a souvenir tasting glass that you’re free to stumble out the door with once you’ve had your fill. Of course there will be plenty of live music, great food, and other stuff for sale to help balance all the delicious beer samples.

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