Siptemberfest 2013

It’s official. Saturday is sold out. Friday is sold out. SIPtemberfest is SOLD OUT! So here’s the info you all need:

• Please remember that this is a rain or shine event so come prepared for whatever Mother Nature dishes out! Right now the forecast for Saturday isn’t exactly calling for sunshine and 70s but it’s still a better forecast than we had last year! In light of the potential for the r-word, though, let’s all channel our inner hippies and visualize wearing our sunglasses and wrapping our sweatshirts around our waists and saying things like ‘Man! It turned out to be such a great day!
  

  Our mobile office at MRG

• Also remember that all tickets will be checked in by purchasers last name! You don’t need to bring physical tickets but you DO NEED TO BRING YOUR ID!! If you bought or sold tickets amongst yourselves you 100% definitely need to email us at @siptemberfest@madriver.com and let us know the ticket name changes. If you purchased tickets for you and your friends, you don’t need to email us any other names unless you will be entering separately. Same rules apply for Friday & Saturday tickets.
• Friday doors are at 6:30 and dinner starts promptly at 7. Please have your IDs when you arrive.
• Gates open Saturday at 1pm! We are just as excited to get things going as you are, but please be patient and have your ID ready at check -in. If you are not partaking in the SIP but are there with friends, you don’t need to wait in line to get in.
• Don’t forget to take the bus! Park at Hostel Tevere and take the bust to SIPtemberfest and back!
• After last call at SIPtemberfest, don’t forget to head to Hostel Tevere for the SIP Post Party!
• If you have more questions – like directions to MRG, what times the Foliage Rides runs – check out our SIP 411 page.

 

NEWS FLASH:

Saturday tickets are sold out and there are ONLY SIX TICKETS LEFT to Friday’s Meet the Brewer’s Dinner & Tasting! They will not be available at the door so if you want to come, you have until 11am on Friday -tomorrow – to purchase tickets, if they last that long!

Now, without further ado, the moment you’ve all been waiting for:

The 2012 SIPtemberfest Brew Menu

Brew Menus & Tasting Cards will be handed out to each ticket holder on Saturday

Bobcat Café & Brewery

Prayer Rock Pale 4.9%

Downtown Brown 5.8%

Oktoberfest 5.7%

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Caledonia Spirits & Winery

Barr Hill Gin, 45%

Barr Hill Vodka, 40%

Calendonia Elderberry Cordial, 14.4%

Caledonia Black Currant Mead, 12%

Caledonia Elderberry Mead, 12%

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Drop In Brewery

Sunshine and Hoppiness, 5.1%

Solar System IPA, 6.6%

Heart of Lothian, 5.6%

Red Dwarf, 4.8%

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Fiddlehead

IPA, 6.2%

Vermont Pale Ale, 5.8%

Brewer’s Surprise!

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Grateful Hands Brewery

Common Sense, 5.2%

Spare Change, 6.5%

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Harpoon Brewery

UFO Pumpkin, 4.8%

Rye IPA, 6.9%

Cider 4.8%

Octoberfest, 5.5%

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Jasper Murdock’s Alehouse at the Norwich Inn

Norwich Abbey, 7.4%

Two Stuck Trucks IPA, 8.4%

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Lawson’s Finest Liquids

Hillside Cider 7.0%

Triple Play IPA 7%

Hopzilla Double IPA 8.7%

Fayston Maple Imperial Stout 10.1%

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Long Trail Brewery

Harvest Ale, 4.4%

Triple Bag, 9.2%

Imperial Pumpkin, 8.0%

Double IPA, 8.6%

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Magic Hat Brewery

#9 5.1%

Hocus Pocus 4.5%

Apple Pie Ale 5.8%

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Otter Creek Brewery

Shed Mountain Ale 7.0%

Oktoberfest 5.0%

Wolaver’s Pumpkin 5.7%

Copper Ale 5.4%

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OUR FEATURED OUT OF STATE BREWER:

 Sixpoint Brewery

Brownstone, 6.0%

Resin, 9.1%

Spice of Life, 6.0%

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Smugglers Notch Distillery

SND Vodka, 40%

SND Gin, 44%

SND Rum, 40%

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Switchback Brewing Company

Switchback Ale, 5.0%

Slow-fermented Brown Ale, 5.2%

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The Alchemist

Heady Topper 8.0%

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Trout River Brewery

Trout River Red.5.0%

Knight Slayer 9.0%

Hoppin’ Mad Pale Ale 5.0%

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Vermont Beer Company

Black Pepper Porter 4.8%

Randallized IPA

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Vermont Pub & Brewery

Forbidden Fruit, 6.2%

Oktoberfest, 5.5%

Lake Champlain Chocolate Stout, 5.1%

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Zero Gravity

St. Pauli Boy 5.7%

Smokey The Beer (cask) 6.0%

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Clearly the main reason you all come to SIPtemberfest is for the beer. But the atmosphere is unrivaled. The music is great and the food – oh my gosh! – the food is amazing.

And every year we’ve had t-shirts for sale that you wear proudly to the bar, on the work site, to your friend’s wedding (ok – that didn’t go over very well,) but the point is, our Made In the USA shirts are comfortable and cool and you have a collection of them.

This year, in addition to our popular t-shirts made by New Duds, we will have some new retail items which are equally as fun and fashionable as they are functional.

• Nothing is more representative of our beer-geek culture than Hops. Hence the genius Hoptique from alena botanica. You’ve probably seen the seriously bad ass trucker hats, but did you know there’s more? We will have the super cute hops scarves and the omg-I-need-one cooler bags so you can stylishly hold your cold beverages without looking like a gaper. Locally made right over the hill in Beerbury (aka Waterbury) you can find more of alena botanica’s sweet stuff online.
• Ok, so maybe nothing is more representative of our beer-geek culture than hops, but drinking vessels make a strong case for second place, which is why we will have two locally crafted varieties of steins for you to take home and proudly display amongst your beer trophies. The first is an exclusive line of pottery made by the uber talented Leslie Montalto of Waitsfield. Hand etched with hops, these limited edition mugs will happily contain your frothy beverage, be it a coffee stout or a stout coffee, for years to come. Also available will be a  selection of glass steins blown by Michael Egan. Egan’s unique and stunning glass steins will compliment the craft in your craft brew and offer an impressive presentation on the table. Egan is also providing a surprise door prize for our Friday Meet the Brewers Dinner & Tasting!
• Our SIPteberfest swag will be beefed up a little bit too! New this year we will have a very limited # of HOODIES for sale! Plus at 4:30, we will start selling extra glasses to folks on their way out. You’ll be walking right past our retail booth on the way in and out so be sure to take a look and take some stuff home with you

Cheers!