• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • About Craft Brewing Business

Craft Brewing Business

Professional Insight, Unfiltered

Craft Brewing Business Craft Brewing Business
  • News
  • Business & Marketing
  • Packaging & Distribution
  • Equipment & Systems
  • Ingredients & Supplies
  • Webinars & White Papers
  • News
  • Business & Marketing
  • Ingredients & Supplies
  • Packaging & Distribution
  • Equipment
  • Webinars & White Papers
  • COVID-19

Holiday Ale Festival: An exclusive showcase of rare, one-off winter craft beers

September 22, 2015Chris Crowell

winter ale festival

Across the country, there is basically a craft beer event every day (here are some tips for making the most of your event participation). Because there are so many, we usually only run news on events that have a certain notable, cool spin. Like this one:

Known for assembling a prestigious lineup of winter beers, the 20th annual Holiday Ale Festival will take place Dec. 2 – 6 at Pioneer Courthouse Square in the heart of downtown Portland.

Notable: In a place like Portland, there has to be a bigger hook than, “Hey, here’s a bunch of craft beer” because everyone’s probably tried it all. So, the festival works with every brewery involved to make sure they send a beer that has either been made or blended specifically for the event or is a rare or vintage beer that isn’t commonly tapped in the state. The popular festival will feature more than 50 specialty ales that have either been crafted specifically for the event or are hard-to-fine vintages, underscoring the event’s reputation as one of finest gathering of winter beers anywhere in the nation.

Cool: The Holiday Ale Festival is held outside in December. As dedicated Northeast Ohioans, we appreciate any event that embraces the outdoors during colder winter months. Sure, gas heaters create a cozy ambiance beneath the boughs of the region’s largest decorated Christmas tree, but still…

In addition to beer tasting, the festival also features meet the brewer events, a root beer garden, food vendors, self-guided beer pairings with cheese, event merchandise and a coat/bag check and raffle that raises funds for the Children’s Cancer Association.

To enter and consume beer, the purchase of an entry package is required. Advance general admission packages cost $35 and include the 2015 tasting cup and 14 taster tickets, plus expedited entry all five days. General admission at the door is the same price, but includes only 12 tickets and no expedited entry. Advance VIP packages cost $80 and include the tasting cup, 30 taster tickets, special VIP beer lines with little to no waiting, exclusive VIP only vintage beers, bottled water, and express entry all five days. VIP tickets are limited to 250 and are not available at the door. All advance packages will go on sale at the end of September.

New Belgium Tour De Fat cbb crop
Top 10 reasons to visit New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat 2016 (+ a wacky photo blog)
No-Li guest breweries kan jambeeree
No-Li announces guest breweries for ‘KAN JamBEERee
California-Craft-Brewers-As
California Craft Brewers Summit to bring together brewers, enthusiasts
KBS Week Founders Brewing bar
Founders Brewing announces KBS Week 2015

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. PDXBeerRanger says

    September 24, 2015 at 7:45 pm

    RT @HolidayAle: Cheers to @CraftBrewingBiz for pointing out why the @HolidayAle stands above the rest! http://t.co/kYihdOFssE #HAF15

    Log in to Reply
  2. coasterfactory says

    September 23, 2015 at 1:54 pm

    Too soon? Holiday Ale Festival: An exclusive showcase of rare, one-off winter craft beers :: http://t.co/DrDMAxJWu9

    Log in to Reply
  3. crsimp01 says

    September 22, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    Holiday Ale Festival: An exclusive showcase of rare, one-off winter craft beers http://t.co/1wM6BtQLxE via @craftbrewingbiz

    Log in to Reply
  4. Karli Olsen says

    September 22, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    Karli Olsen liked this on Facebook.

    Log in to Reply
  5. HolidayAle says

    September 22, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    Cheers to @CraftBrewingBiz for pointing out why the @HolidayAle stands above the rest! http://t.co/kYihdOFssE #HAF15

    Log in to Reply
  6. HolidayAle says

    September 22, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    RT @CraftBrewingBiz: Holiday Ale Festival: An exclusive showcase of rare, one-off winter craft beers http://t.co/p9CaHbuKiV @holidayale

    Log in to Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Primary Sidebar

Latest News

  • MaltCon2024 registration opens, speakers announced
  • Watch the story behind Minnesota’s Surly Brewing Co.
  • Beer Institute: Research shows tariffs on aluminum have cost the U.S. beverage industry nearly $2.2 billion
  • Urban South Brewery debuts THC seltzer and more beers to know this week

Sign up for our newsletter

unsubscribe from list

Most Popular Today

Recent Features

  • Surly Brewing barWatch the story behind Minnesota’s Surly Brewing Co.
    December 7, 2023
  • Beer money cansMeasuring the financial impact of staff suggesting to-go beers
    December 6, 2023
  • Cincinnati’s MadTree Brewing becomes a B-Corp, so let’s learn how they did it
    December 4, 2023
  • Westbound and Down craft brewery exterior cbb cropColorado’s Westbound & Down Brewing acquires Aspen Brewing and Capitol Creek Brewing
    December 4, 2023
  • Aaron Reames of Bent Water Brewing cbb crop2024 market predictions from three top craft brewers
    December 4, 2023
  • craft beer neon marketing sign‘Experience creates consumption’ tops BrewLogix list of craft beer trends to watch
    November 30, 2023

Footer

  • Email Newsletter Sign Up
  • About Craft Brewing Business
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise on Craft Brewing Business
  • Media Kit Download
  • Privacy and Terms

© 2023 · CBB Media LLC