AleFest Chicago - A Celebration of Craft Beer this Saturday!

Sorry, this is kind of late for anyone out there who didn't know about this yet. AleFest Chicago is happening this Saturday July 12 from 1pm-6pm at Soldier Field Staidum Green (just outside Soldier Field). Apparently this is the 2nd annual one, but I don't remember hearing about it last year at all, and I was pretty busy, so obviously I didn't go before. This year, I have seen posters for it up in some beer bars that I have visited recently, so I figured it must be pretty good. Then I found the nice website where it has all the details. Admission is $40, but includes a bunch of stuff such as 20 samples of craft beer, a commemorative tasting glass, a stainless steel bottle opener, and it's also for charity for the The Lupus Foundation of America, Illinois Chapter (LFAI). Then I looked at the list of breweries that will be there (I have them listed below), and I was quite impressed! I'm still not sure if I will definitely go, but I am seriously considering it. Now I have some free time, but not much money, since I'm between jobs right now. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal and a good way to spend this Saturday, though, so I may go for it. Anyone else already planning on going, or wanting to go?

Participating Breweries Include:

	Abita Allagash America’s Arcadia Avery Ayinger Belhaven Bent River Black Sheep Blackthorn Blue Cat Boston Beer Boulder Breckenridge Brooklyn Chang Charles Wells Chimay Trappist Destihl Dogfish Head DuBocq Emmett’s Flatlanders Floris Flossmoor Station Flying Dog Gaffel Goose Island Gordon Biersch Gouden Carolus Great Lakes Greens		Hirter Jever Kaiser Kasteel Lagunitas Lefebvre Left Hand Lindemans Lost Coast LunaR McAuslan Metropolitan Mickey Finn’s MT Barrels New Holland North Coast Piece RAM/Big Horn Rock Bottom Samuel Smith Southern Tier St. Louis St. Peters Stiegl Three Floyds Two Brothers Unibroue Wexford Wychwood Young’s Zatec