One week after the Big Bend Brewfest comes the Panacea Craft Beer and Oyster Fest, which takes place March 26 from 1-4 p.m. The Big Bend Brewfest, which was started in 2018, was postponed in 20 due ongoing concerns about the pandemic. Locals like Proof, Lake Tribe, Oyster City and Halpatter Brewing will all be featured at the event, which is an annual benefit for the Perry Rotary Club and the city's "Shop With A Cop" holiday Christmas program. For $30, you can get unlimited sampling of local, regional and national craft beers, or for $40, you can choose the VIP option and get in an hour earlier at 4 p.m. The Big Bend Brewfest goes down Saturday, March 19, at Rosehead Park in Perry from 5-8 p.m. The first of three beer fests over the next month and a half is happening this weekend, and it's setting the stage for a busy next 45 days. Stay tuned to Proof's social media - Facebook, Twitter & Instagram - for the beer's release date! Beer fest season is here Hopefully it opens those eyes and opens those checkbooks." Whether it is by buying the beer or donating online, whatever it is. "I hope this really just brings awareness to people and encourages them to help out. "Every single person jumped right on it anyway," he said. Jason Goldstein, owner and brewmaster at New Jersey's Icarus Brewing, told NJ.com his brewery had to change their entire brewing schedule to make room to participate in Brew For Ukraine - but the cause was beyond worth it. Prominent examples include Sierra Nevada Resilience IPA for Camp Fire relief, Other Half's All Together to support the hospitality industry during the pandemic, and Weathered Souls' Black Is Beautiful for Black Lives Matter awareness. Per Food & Wine Magazine, "While macro-breweries constantly battle over market share, craft breweries have shown a remarkable willingness to work together.Īnd what began as a culture of collaboration brews has sometimes evolved into national and global initiatives where groups of breweries make the same beer to raise money or awareness. This isn't the first time breweries of the world have banded together for a cause in recent years either. “We will have to hold off on that (this year) and do important things first,” Pravda told NPR. “Like, clean the country of the enemy, come back to normal life, rebuild the country.” When the war began, Pravda was gearing up to host its 10th annual Craft Beer & Vinyl Music Festival, which attracts roughly 20,000 people across the weekend every year.īut that event, of course, was postponed. When the brewery can get back to brewing its own beer is unknown - if it's even able to, Zastavny told National Public Radio in a recent interview. The movement began after Pravda's co-owner Yuri Zustavny announced on social media two weeks ago that his brewery has stopped production of beer and was switched to mixing and bottling Molotov cocktails – small homemade explosives thrown by hand – in repurposed beer bottles to help repel the Russian army. Proof is the only local brewery taking part, but there are hundreds of breweries around the country and world that have signed up. Although, we encourage you to look it up! The breweries participating in the Brew For Ukraine program actually had an option to brew four other recipes from Pravda: Syla, a Belgian tripel Red Eyes, an American red ale Frau Ribbentrop, a Belgian witbier and a dry-hopped strong ale, but we can't print the name (or its translation) in this column that pokes fun at Russian President Vladimir Putin. “This collaboration beer is an excellent opportunity to invite our community to join the cause and raise humanitarian relief funds for Ukraine." “What’s happening is very tragic, and we want to do our part locally to support fellow brewers and the Ukrainian people,” Proof co-owner and co-founder Byron Burroughs said. But here's the best part: Proceeds from ALL beer sales - by Proof and every brewery around the world that has chosen to participate in this initiative - will go to humanitarian relief aid in Ukraine.
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