I know you are in the middle of celebrating Cinco de Mayo, but Dieciséis de Mayo (that's May 17 to all y'all gringos) is also a great day to celebrate because that is the date of the Crown Beer Fest. Crown Beer Fest is hosted by Crown Brewing and is held during American Craft Beer Week every year. The event is made up of sampling booths of craft breweries from Indiana, Illinois, and other surrounding states. Your ticket covers all of your beer samples.
Breweries attending will include:
Destihl
Goose Island
Tapistry
Three Floyd's
Transient Artisan Ales
Tin Man
Figure Eight Brewing
One Trick Pony
BrickStone
Backroads
18th Street Brewery
Ironwood
Argus
Sun King
Lafayette Brew Co
The Devil's Trumpet Brewing Co.
Four Father's
Powerhouse
Flat 12
Shoreline Brewery
Black Acre Brewing Co.
Hunter's Brewing
Cutters Brewing Company
Bloomington Brewing Company
Bulldog Brewing
Iechyd Da Brewing Company
Burn 'Em Brewing
Triton Brewing
Crown Brewing
Wildrose
Founder's
Black Swan
Bier Brewery
People's
Evil Czech
Barley Island
Founder's
General admission tickets will get you four hours of access. That's $35 for 2p-6p central. You can get them at www.crownbeerfest.com. But we have two pairs of VIP tickets to give away.
To join: Post a comment on this article and tell us either who you would CROWN as your king or queen of beers or tell us what you think the POINT is of drinking craft beer. Do it by Thursday at noon. We will toss the responses in a sombrero, do a little dance around it, and draw two names. We will notify you if you win.