The American Craft Beer Weekend Picks – August 1, 2014

Hey it’s Friday…Work’s been brutal this week so you’re ready to shut down and have some fun. Well good, because we’re all about it and we’ve got all kinds of awesome ideas for you. From the nation’s coolest beer festivals to movies, music, and cutting-edge TV – we’ve got your back big-time.

So welcome to our awesome Weekend Picks…

Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Tour – Mid-Atlantic Edition (Philadelphia, PA) – The Beer Camp Across America Tour is touching down in Philly this Saturday, August 2nd from 12 – 5pm. This is the sixth stop for the Sierra Nevada sponsored festival and will feature 82 of the region’s most exciting breweries. Amazingly, tickets are still available! And if an un-ending stream of brilliant beer isn’t enough for you, there will also be live music and all kinds of wild entertainment. Proceeds from this festival will benefit the Brewers of Pennsylvania, a group working to keep craft brewing alive and well today and in the future. For more on the regional brewers pouring, check out: Beer Camp Across America

On the Big Screen – Destined at the very least to become a cult classic, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy opens this weekend, and it’s a 9 out of 10 on the weirdness scale. Chris Pratt stars as an American pilot, Peter Quill, who finds himself the object of a manhunt after stealing an orb coveted by the evil Ronan.To evade the ever-persistent villain, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits-Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora, and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. Please…What’s not to like…right?

, The American Craft Beer Weekend Picks – August 1, 2014Time Flies When You’re Having a Good Time (Boulder, CO) – Our friends at the Avery Brewing Company will be celebrating their 21st Anniversary this Sunday, August 3rd and they’re inviting their fans to drop by and party with them. They’ve gone from making 800 barrels of beer a year to 50,000, from 3 annual beer styles to 22 and counting, from 3 employees to 93 and counting, and Adam Avery is digging deep into his cellar to pull out rare and vintage beers for this party – so you don’t want to miss it! For more info on this rally in the alley, check out: Avery Brewing’s 21st Anniversary Party

TV Time – It can be gross, gratuitous, and sometimes over-the-top, which is probably why we’re enjoying this vampire saga so much. Created by movie director Guillermo del Toro and popular author Chuck Hogan and based on their novel trilogy that they wrote together, The Strain is apocalyptic in scale and surprisingly scary. You can catch The Strain Sunday nights at 10 p.m. on the FX Network.

Doesn’t Get More New England Than This (Newton, MA) – For one day only (and possibly in celebration of its upcoming one-year anniversary), DIY brewhouse Hopsters is using its brew kettles for another delicious purpose – boiling up some tasty crustaceans. On Sunday from 12 noon to 10 p.m., swing by for a 1.5 pound lobster, steamers, sides, and two pints of a limited-edition ale on draft. Advance tickets are required, so don’t miss out on your chance to rock a bib this weekend; check out: Lobstah Boil & Brew Fest.

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