Split Rock – Great Brews Classic Beer Festival

I’ve been holding off on posting this because the details have been changing quite a bit….but what they are now calling the “New & Improved Great Brews Classic Beer Festival” will be held Nov 21st & 22nd 2009 from 12PM-4PM.  For anyone who’s attended their festivals before, this was formerly the Great American Beer Festival…but this year it’s different.  First and foremost, Saturday’s event is pre-sale tickets ONLY!  According to what they are telling me, if you do not buy a ticket in advance for Saturday, you will not get in!  This is being done to limit ticket sales so hopefully Saturday will not be such a zoo.  Sunday ticket sales seem to be open to all.  Clicky HERE for info and advanced ticket purchase.  Pricing looks like it will be $33 in advance and $45 Day of Festival for Sat and $28 in advance and $35 at the door Sunday (UP from $25 last year!), so you may just want to buy in advance anyway.  Here’s the latest list of breweries:

Abita Brewery Abita Spring, LA
Allagash Brewery Portland, ME
Amstel Holland
Becks Germany
Bethlehem Brew Works Bethlehem, PA
Boulder Brewing Co. Boulder, CO
Bitburger Germany
Breaker Brewing Co. Plains, PA
Brewdog Scotland
Cape Ann Brewing Co. Glouster, MA
Clipper City Brewery Baltimore, MD
Cold Springs Cold Spring, MN
Cricket Hill Fairfield, NJ
Coopers Australia
Corona Mexico
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Milton, DE
Erie Brewing Co. Erie, PA
Fullers United Kingdom
Guiness Ireland
Hacker – Pschorr Germany
Harpoon Brewing Co. Boston, MA
Harp Ireland
Heineken Holland
Hometown Beverages Oceanport, NJ
Intercourse Brewing Co. Creamery, PA
J.J. Bitting Brewing Co. Woodbridge, NJ
Konig Ludwig Barvaria
Kostritzer Germany
Lancaster Malt Brewing Co. Lancaster, PA
Lomza Poland
Negra Modela Mexico
Mercury Ipswich, MA
Murphy’s Ireland
Paulaner Germany
Reaper Ale Lake Elsinore, CA
Samuel Adams Boston
Singha Thiland
Smithwicks Ireland
Spaten Germany
Straub Brewery Chico, CA
Stone Brewing Co. San Marcos, CA
Stella Artois Belgium
Tröegs Brewing Co. Harrisburg, PA
Unibroue Canada
Unich Germany
Warsteiner Germany
Weyerbacher Brewing Co. Easton, PA
Yuengling Brewery Pottsville, PA
Zymiec Poland