{"id":2726,"date":"2013-11-03T22:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T03:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2013-11-03T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T03:45:11","slug":"the-all-colorado-beer-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/11\/the-all-colorado-beer-festival.html","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Discoveries 18: The (Tax Exempt) All Colorado Beer Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The All Colorado Beer Festival is a great fund raiser hidden in the guise of a fun party.<\/p><\/div>\n

This past Saturday night Dave and I joined some friends for a fun evening in Colorado Springs celebrating Colorado craft beers at the All Colorado Beer Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I didn’t take any good pictures during the evening, unfortunately, but I did want to show off our take of stickers that we collected. Dave and I want to come up with a classy way to display the sticker in our new basement bar. We’ll take any and all ideas.<\/p>\n

Back to the beer fest: for $30 per person, visitors were able to enjoy from over 60 Colorado* beer vendors. If you’re unfamiliar with beer festivals, you receive a 4 oz. mini-beer glass (made of Lexan-type plastic). And armed with it you could taste to your heart’s content. The variety of beers were widespread. You name it, there was a sample to be had: dunkelweizens, IPAs, reds, Belgian whites (of which there were many). I even tasted a “pineapple cyder [sic]” that was pretty potent. I think the most unusual beer I tried was Blue Moon’s (cough, cough Coors<\/em>‘, cough, cough) Harvest Moon pumpkin ale<\/a>, which was presented to me with a sprinkle of brown sugar\/pumpkin pie spice blend on the crook of my hand. I was to lick the spice, then drink the ale…tequila-shot-style.<\/p>\n

*I was surprised to see Anheuser Busch at the event, but they have a Fort Collins brewery. They claimed to be serving only the beers that were brewed in Fort Collins: Bud Light and Shock Top Pumpkin Ale. OOOOOOkay.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is a sampling of some of the companies that offered my favorite brews:<\/p>\n