The 8th Annual
Beer Barons' World of Beer Festival
The festival saw our numbers continue to grow to our first sell out.
Beer highlights
More than 200 beers from over 80 breweries were available for sampling with many fantastic brews. We put the money into the beer! The homebrew area was a big hit again. If you are in a homebrew club and would like to attend we have a sweet deal for you.
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Barrel - Get a taste direct from an actual barrel
Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout
Firestone Walker Double Jack American Imperial IPA
Williams Bros Black Porter - a Firkin of Real Ale from Scotland
Delafield Brewhaus - Rye Whiskey Barrel Russian Imperial Stout?!?!?!
Ommegang Gnomegang
Mikkeller Black Tie Barrel Aged Stout
Valley Brewery (MillerCoors Tech Center Pilot brewery)
Lakefront Special Holiday Spice and Barrel Aged Holiday Spice
Rock Bottom Bourbon Barrel Naughty Scot Scotch Ale
Sam Adams Utopias
Big Eddy Imperial IPA (not yet released to the public)
People's choice award went to Stone Fly Brewing
Want to help us build the festival?
If you'd like to help out with poster distribution or otherwise contact us here. We rely on word of mouth for most of our promotion - please help spread the word so we can grow the festival and keep it financially stable.
The next World of Beer will be on Saturday June 2nd, 2012.
The organizers of the festival would like to thank the Schwabenhof, attendees, and volunteers for making this festival a success.
We'd also like to throw out a special thanks to all the brewery staff who showed including people from:
- Delafield Brewhaus - John Harrison (He's always been one of our biggest cheerleaders!)
- Lakefront Brewing Co - Russ and Jim Klisch, Chad Sheridan
- Sprecher Brewing Co
- Rock Bottom - Dave Bass
- Milwaukee Ale House/Milwaukee Brewing Co - Bert Morton
- St Francis Brewery - Scott Hettig
- Ale Asylum - Erik Huibregtse
- Grumpy Troll - Chris Drawbridge
- Stone Fly - Jacob Sutrick
- Miller Valley Brewery (Miller Tech Center) - The Whole Crew!
- Vintage Brewpub - Scott Manning
- Big Bay Beer Co. - Jeff Garwood
- Goose Island - Brian Loughrey (Wisconsin Sales Rep)
- Potosi Brewing Co.
- Great Dane Brewbub - Eric Brusewitz
- New Glarus Brewing Co.
- Kentucky Brewing Co.
- Water Street Brewery - Dan Kern
- B-Nektar - Jaquie, Dan, Brandi and Yevhen
- Crispin Cider - Spencer King
It always makes it more interesting when you can talk to the brewer.
And lastly the Beer Buffalo Lodge Crew who added a new dimension to the fest!
Want to be notified when tickets go on sale for the next fest?
Because a great beer festival should support great beer!
The proceeds from this years festival will benefit YOU through better beer
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Pro-Brewer Scholarship FundThe Bulk of the proceeds go toward putting a brewer from this region through advanced training at the Seibel Institute to help improve and advance our brewing community |
Beer Barons' Homebrewer Scholarship FundA portion will also go toward helping a homebrewer from the Beer Barons of Milwaukee homebrew club attend the advanced homebrewing course at Seibel. Many professional brewers started as homebrewers.
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FUTURE DATES: June 2, 2012; June 1, 2013; June 7, 2014
Past Festivals :2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011
World of Beer Festival is presented by the Beer Barons of Milwaukee
homebrewing and beer enthusiast club.
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