North Shore's First Craft Beer Festival

HIGHWOOD, IL (AUGUST 17, 2013) – Craft beer drinkers rejoice! 
The North Shore’s First Craft Beer Festival is heading to Highwood’s Everts Park (130 Highwood Avenue) on Saturday,
August 17th from noon-4:30pm. 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 offering some 70 different beers. 

VIP and general
admission tickets will go on sale June 22nd, and be available at www.HighwoodCraftBeerFest.com.  A limited number of
discounted early bird tickets are available at $50 for VIP entrance starting at
noon, or $35 for general admission starting at 1pm.  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.

Highwood’s
Craft Beer Festival will be donating a portion of its proceeds to local
charities.

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.HighwoodCaftBeerFest.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.