A rolling national beer festival on wheels cruises into Denver July 25 for a party in Civic Center Park.
will visit seven cities across the country and Denver is the third stop, bringing more than 200 craft beers from 100 breweries from Colorado, Kansas, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Each brewery is bringing up to two beers each.
The event is to promote Sierra Nevada’s ingenious collaboration with 12 other breweries across the country to create a variety pack of beers that goes on sale this month. Breweries include from Longmont that brewed a rye bock; from California that brewed a hoppy pilsner; and Bell’s Brewery in Michigan that brewed an imperial dark ale. Oskar Blues contribution is one of two beers that is in a can.
Promotional material calls the “unprecedented variety pack” a “celebration of our collective spirit: 12 different collaboration beers brewed alongside 12 exceptional brewers, together showcasing the sense of pride and passion shared by craft brewers nationwide.”
The Denver event begins at 5 p.m. Attendees may purchase food from various food carts. Also, the Oregon-based marching band, MarchFourth, will play from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased online. Admission includes a commemorative tasting glass.
From Denver, the tour heads to Chicago on July 27; Portland, Maine, on Aug. 1; Philadelphia on Aug. 2; and finishes in Mills River, N.C., on Aug. 3.
The day before the beer fest — on Thursday, July 24 — Sierra Nevada will host the Brewers Pro Challenge Fun Ride — an evening of biking, beers and watching a movie in Civic Center Park.
The five-mile fun ride will go through Denver, led by folks from USA Pro Challenge and Beer Camp Across America. It includes a stop at Falling Rock Tap House and end in a beer garden in Civic Center Park hosted by Sierra Nevada and the showing of American Flyers, a 1985 cycling cult classic filmed in Colorado.
The s a T-shirt, admission to the beer garden with eight 4-ounce samplers and one half-priced beer at Falling Rock.
