{"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":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/11\/the-all-colorado-beer-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Discoveries 18: The (Tax Exempt) All Colorado Beer Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2727\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1403585_568955599825217_86077079_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2727\" alt=\"The All Colorado Beer Festival is a great fund raiser hidden in the guise of a fun party.\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1403585_568955599825217_86077079_o-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1403585_568955599825217_86077079_o-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1403585_568955599825217_86077079_o-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1403585_568955599825217_86077079_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The All Colorado Beer Festival is a great fund raiser hidden in the guise of a fun party.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This past Saturday night Dave and I joined some friends for a fun evening in Colorado Springs celebrating Colorado craft beers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allcoloradobeerfestival.com\/about-2\/\">All Colorado Beer Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;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&#8217;ll take any and all ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the beer fest: for $30 per person, visitors were able to enjoy from over 60 Colorado* beer vendors. If you&#8217;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&#8217;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 &#8220;pineapple cyder [sic]&#8221; that was pretty potent. I think the most unusual beer I tried was Blue Moon&#8217;s (cough, cough <em>Coors<\/em>&#8216;, cough, cough) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemoonbrewingcompany.com\/OurBeers\/Product\/harvest-pumpkin-ale\">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&#8230;tequila-shot-style.<\/p>\n<p><em>*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<p>Here is a sampling of some of the companies that offered my favorite brews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatstormbrewing.com\/\">Great Storm Brewing<\/a>, Colorado Springs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainbrews.com\/\">Rocky Mountain Brewery<\/a>, Colorado Springs. Their Brunette Nut Brown Ale is yummy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kannahcreekbrewingco.com\/\">Kannah Creek Brewing Company<\/a>, Grand Junction. Mainly because they had a beer called Standing Wave Pale Ale. Not only is that a cool name, but it wasn&#8217;t half bad either.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prostbrewing.com\/\">Prost Brewing Company<\/a>, Denver. They offered a very clean-tasting Pils.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The All Colorado Beer Festival organization is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit. This should mean that most of the money raised from the event supports charities. In this case, the organization is supporting three charities in the local area: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreworkscs.org\/\">THEATREWORKS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fillanemptystocking.org\/\">The Empty Stocking Fund<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehomefrontcares.org\/\">The Homefront Cares<\/a>. The latter is near and dear to my heart because it&#8217;s helping local military families.<\/p>\n<p>The organization has donated over $120,000 to the charities since it started in 2008.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2013\/02\/ken_stern_s_with_charity_for_all_the_internal_revenue_service_does_a_poor.html\">However, some are critical of a beer festival having tax exempt status<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. I didn&#8217;t take any good pictures during the evening, unfortunately, but I did want to show off our take of stickers that we collected. 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