HIGHWOOD’S CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LOCAL & NATIONAL CRAFT BREW LINE UP

HIGHWOOD, IL (AUGUST 17, 2013) – The producers of Highwood’s Craft Beer Festival are proud to announce the

local and national craft brew line up for the North Shore’s First Craft Beer Festival on Saturday, August 17th starting at noon, at Everts Park

(130 Highwood Avenue). The growing craft beer connoisseur population throughout Chicago’s northern

suburbs can taste and appreciate specialty beers from craft breweries across

the country!

Celebrating the best of local, Midwest and American craft beers,

Highwood’s Craft Beer Festival will feature many seasonal and year-round brews

from small local independent breweries to some of the best-known microbreweries

nationwide. Attendees will be able to sample from 35 breweries including:

LOCAL BREWERIES:

·     

Metropolitan Brewing Chicago offering Krankshaft

Kolsch and Flywheel Lager,

·     

Two Brothers Brewing Company offering Sidekick

Xtra Pale Ale and Ebel’s Weiss,

·     

Finch Beer Company offering Threadless IPA, Fascist

Pig Ale, Secret Stache Stout, and Cut Throat Pale Ale,

·     

Goose Island Beer Company offering 312, Green

Line, Classic and Vintage Ales,

·     

Lake Bluff Brewing offering Weiz Guy Ale, Gamma Ray,

Dog Days Hefeweizen and Honey Badger, and

·     

Wild Onion offering Hope Slayer Double IPA, Jack Stout, and

Phat Chance.

NATIONAL BREWERIES:

·     

Stone Brewing offering Stone IPA and Arrogant Bastard or

Ruination Double IPA,

·     

Oskar Blues Brewing Company offering Dales Pale

Ale and G’Knight Imperial Red Ale,

·     

Allagash Brewing Company offering Allagash

White and Allagash Curieux, and

·     

Lagunitas Brewing Company offering Lagunitas

IPA, North Coast Pranqster, and Dog Fish Head.

Other craft brews at the Fest will

include: 5 Rabbit, Abita, Argus, Anchor Brewing, Dogfish Head, Mickey

Finn's, MOA, New Belgium Brewing, New Holland, Pyramid, Saugatuck Brewing,

Sierra Nevada, Ska, Stone, Magic Hat, and more to be confirmed soon.

VIP and general

admission tickets are available at www.HighwoodCraftBeerFest.com.  A limited number of discounted

early bird tickets are available through July 17th at $35 for

general admission starting at 1pm or $50 for VIP entrance starting at noon.  Attendees will receive a wristband, a brewers

list card, a reusable sampling glass, drink tickets for three ounce beer samples,

and a bag of pretzels with a string to make their own pretzel necklace. A

variety of food and non-alcoholic beverages will be available from Highwood’s

diverse restaurants.

The event will also feature live entertainment from local bands:

·      12:00 - 2:00 Pat Smilie Duo -

Rhythm & Blues - http://www.patsmillie.com/

·     

2:30 - 4:30

- Los Perros Cubanos - http://www.losperroscubanos.com/

Highwood’s

Craft Beer Festival will be donating a portion of its proceeds to The Puppy Mill Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public and raising

awareness about puppy mills and their direct connection to pet stores, internet

sites, and newspaper ads that sell dogs.

This event is

strictly for those 21 years of age and older. Highwood advocates responsible

drinking, and recently aligned with Parents. The Anti-Drug to combat underage drinking in the community. Attendees are encouraged

to take the Metra Train to the Highwood Metra stop located only ½ block from Everts

Park. Designated driver tickets will also be available. For more information

and to purchase tickets please visit: http://www.HighwoodCraftBeerFest.com.

ABOUT

TED WIDEN

From Chicago’s North Shore, Ted Widen launched Chicago-Scene.com in 1998 as one of the

first social networking, events and entertainment sites in the country. Widen

is known for his unparalleled event and production skill set, producing such

events as the Chicago Scene New Year’s

Eve Party

hosted at the Historic Drake Hotel. The event is attended by over 2,500 people

annually since 2000. This success has sparked plans for 2013 to add The Chicago

Hilton and Towers New Year’s Eve Party, with over 4,000 attendees to his

portfolio. Accolades include: Chicago Scene Magazine Publication started in

2001; reaching Chicago’s A-List young professional 21-39 year old market in

downtown area, The River North Craft

Beer Pub Crawl

this past May with 10 bars, 20 Craft Beers and over 2000 attendees, and this

October he is producing the Windy City Craft Beer Festival at the Drake Hotel and

many more Craft Beer events in the future.