Brew Your Cask Off Festival Returns To SweetWater 11/8

ATLANTA (August 22, 2014) – SweetWater is brewing up yet another reason to look forward to this fall announcing the

return of their fifth annual cask ale festival – Brew Your Cask Off – this Nov. 8. Encouraging creativity and

originality, the festival celebrates cask ale at its finest, welcoming more than 90 special guest brewers from around

the Southeast to concoct their own one-of-a-kind cask for sampling and judging.

Festivities will run from 6:30 – 10:30 p.m. at the brewery and will feature roughly 110 beers cooked up by special guest

brewers from throughout the region including renowned chefs, restaurants, craft retailers, charities, and local media.

Working alongside SweetWater’s brewers, each team will choose a house base beer and then select their choice of hops,

yeast, fermentable sugars, and a handful of adjuncts and spices to seal the deal with their recipe. New in 2014, local

Atlanta craft breweries are joining the event and elevating the game, submitting their own exclusive cask creations.

Each beer will be judged by a panel of hand-picked beer experts with skilled palates (and seasoned livers) before being

presented at the festival for public tasting. Festival patrons will receive a tasting glass with admission along with an

opportunity to vote for the best in show for a People’s Choice award. Winning brewers will have their casks featured the

2015 SweetWater 420 Festival.

“This festival is a great time for our retailers and community friends to come to the brewery, engage with our brewing

team and work their magic together,” said director of marketing at SweetWater Brewery, Steve Farace. “I always love

seeing the creativity that these folks bring to the table, and it’s a blast watching them step up to the brewing plate and see

their vision turn into liquid reality.”

Festival tickets launch online today at $35 pre-sale and will be $40 at the door. Admission includes a souvenir tasting glass

with unlimited samples, live music, free brewery tours and more. Food trucks will also be available on site for an additional

cost. A portion of event proceeds go to benefit the Georgia Conservancy – a non-profit organization striving to protect

Georgia’s natural resources by advocating sound environmental policies, advancing sustainable growth practices and

facilitating common-ground solutions to environmental challenges.

Brew Your Cask Off is a Happy Ending Production event. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit

www.brewyourcaskoff.com, or follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/brewyourcaskoff.