Are you a self-proclaimed "beer connoisseur?" Do you love to eat great foods and drink different beers? Are you ready to Revel in the Madness? If you can relate to that, you won't want to miss BREW...A Premier Beer Tasting event, Oct. 16.
Spend the afternoon, at this one-day event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., sampling internationally acclaimed and domestically micro-brewed ales, pilsners, stouts and everything in between. In addition to great music, some of the area's finest restaurants including Columbia Café, Tiger Bites, and Café at Artspace will be offering free samples of their signature dishes.
"There is a wide variety of beers to sample, there is plenty of seating and the atmosphere is electric," said Melanie Bacon, Downtown Shreveport Unlimited executive director and a festival organizer.
Few people know this, but Shreveport-Bossier has two local brewer clubs - Malt Munching Mash Monsters and S.U.D.S. They will be on hand with their special beers and you can taste other unusual and more obscure brews like "Jack's Pumpkin Spice Ale" or "Widmer Brother's Drifter Pale Ale."
For Louisiana State University Tiger fans, don't worry about missing the 7 p.m. kickoff against McNeese State. There will be three plasma TVs broadcasting the football game.
BREW will be held at Festival Plaza in downtown Shreveport. Tickets are $50 per person and include four-ounce samples of the featured beers, a ticket to the concert, free food samples from some of the finest restaurants in the area, answers to your beer questions, and live music during the tasting. If you're not a beer-lover but would like to attend the concert, you can still be part of the fun. Concert-only tickets are available and are expected to cost $15.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.shreveportbrew.com. You'll want to order soon, though, as the event is expected to sell out. Be sure to read theFAQ section of the website, and check out the list of featured beers. You must be at least 21 years old to attend BREW. Call 318-222-7403 or 318-424-4000 for more information.