Our Brewers:

• Upper Pass Beer Co.
• Fiddlehead Brewing Company
• Prohibition Pig Brewery
• Good Measure Brewing Co.
• The Alchemist
• Drop In Brewing Company
• Cousins Brewing
• Frost Beer Works
• Hermit Thrush Brewery
• Lawson’s Finest Liquids
• River Roost Brewery
• Smuggler’s Notch Distillery
• Lost Nation Brewing
• Zero Gravity Craft Brewery
• Citizen Cider
• Rock Art Brewery
• Collective Arts Brewing
• …one more to be announced…

Plus Special Out-of-State Guests:

• Bissell Brothers – Portland, ME
• Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing Company – Framingham, MA
• and from a whole different time zone: Melvin Brewing – Jackson, WY

We will also host:

• University of Vermont Business of Craft Beer
• and the Vermont Brewers Association

Our SIPDinner Hosts:

• Lost Nation Brewing & River Roost Brewery

Our SIPCoffee Roasters:

• Abracadabra Coffee Co.
• Awake Coffee
• Brio Coffeeworks
• 802 Coffee
• First Branch Coffee Co.
• Brave Coffee & Tea
• Carrier Coffee Company

Our Beneficiary:

• Mad River Path

This year’s Original Art by:

• Natasha Bogar

With huge thanks to our Sponsors & Partners:

• Mehuron’s Supermarket, Mad River Glen, Craft Beer Cellar Waterbury, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Localvore, Chocolate Thunder Security, Sperry Tents Vermont, Hostel Tevere and General Stark’s Pub

Tickets are SOLD OUT for SIPBeer but there are still tickets for SIPDinner and SIPCoffee! Get yours NOW! Click here!

ALSO: We have about a dozen folks who need to claim their Pop Up Tickets by AUG 31!! Please, please, please claim these ASAP – not doing so creates a lot of extra work for our already thin staff when we’d rather be planning things like our beer menu! Thanks in advance!!

We are also looking for MORE VOLUNTEERS! Please contact us for more info!

BEER KARMA POINTS if you:

• –>Arrive in a car with 3 or more passengers!
• –>Wear a vintage SIP T-shirt!
• –>Wear Lederhosen or a dirndl!
• –>High Five Amanda in the HopShop!

Thanks and cheers!

-Team SIP

Caffeinated greetings all!

Early this morning I was walking my dog in a sleepy stupor when I was jolted by wind rustling a cluster of trees that have decided it’s fall already. Their leaves were orange-red and started blowing off their branches right in front of me, as if to say, ‘What are you, crazy? Put those flip flops away and break out the wool socks!’

Sigh. I mean, of course we can’t wait until SIPtemberfest, but it’s still August and we won’t want to think about foliage and fleece jackets just yet, do we?

Then again, now as I sit in my office sipping my third cup of iced coffee and wishing it wasn’t so darn humid, maybe there are certain things about SIPtemberfest we should be thinking about. For example:

• If you haven’t already, here’s your friendly reminder to claim your pop up tickets but August 31! The receipt you got upon purchasing tickets has instructions. You can contact us if you have questions. But PLEASE claim your pop up tickets ASAP so we can focus on other planning details closer to the event! You must have a scannable ticket to enter – no exceptions.
• If you haven’t already, there are still tickets available for the SIPDinner with Lost Nation and River Roost. We are working on the menu right now and I’m getting hungry/thirsty just thinking about it! Plus, as this is the last year, we are adding some fun little treats here and there for attendees. I urge you not to miss out on this!
• If you haven’t already, there are still tickets available for the SIPCoffee tasting on Sunday! It will feature local roasters serving up their finest little pots of black gold in commemorative SIPtemberfest Mugs. Also available will be donuts from the Village Grocery and food from the MRG Pub. Coffee Beers will be available in the pub as well! The artisan coffee scene reminds me so much about the craft beer scene from about 10 years ago. I’m really excited to see the passion and care these roasters put into their work start spilling over to the consumer side of things. If like coffee even a little bit, I HIGHLY recommend you grab some tickets to SIPCoffee! You’ll get to sample some incredible coffee, test out your coffee-pallet and coffee-knowledge, purchase beans and other coffee swag and wash your hangover away all in one fell SIP! $20 now $25 at the door.
• What are you going to wear?? For our 10th Anniversary of SIPBeer, we are really encouraging people to break out their finest beer-drinking attire! Vintage SIP shirts, lederhosen, dirndls and any other celebratory beer-fest accessories are recommended and… there might even be prizes!!
• We’ve been getting emails from both sellers of and buyers for SIPBeer tickets – we are encouraging you to use our Facebook Invite to connect directly. Please note: terrible beer karma to anyone who tries to sell tickets for anything more than their face value. Trust the people you are selling to/buying from. Feel free to report sketchy parties to us. We want you to all come and have fun, but to paraphrase our friends at the Alchemist: NO DBs. Thanks!
• Yes, yes, yes! The list of brewers will be officially announced very soon – stay tuned!!
• Finally – WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR MORE VOLUNTEERS! If you are interested and available to help out on Saturday or Sunday, we will make it worth your while! Tasks range from easy to laborious and shifts are usually around 4 hours. You get a t-shirt and drinking tokens and you get to hang out with some of the coolest people on the planet! Please contact us if you are interested to learn more!

That’s it for now, team. As mentioned, we will be posting again soon about our brewers and more so stay tuned.

Cheers!

We are so thrilled to announce the Brewer Hosts for our 2017 SIPDinner will be Mark Babson from River Roost, and Allen Van Anda &  Jamie Griffith from Lost Nation Brewing!! Mad River Glen’s Michael Witzel will be our Chef and Mark Drutman from Waterbury Craft Beer Cellar will be our Resident Cicerone.

Over the last few years, attendees of the SIPDinner have been treated to some lively exchanges, hysterical stories and fascinating brewer insight with hosts such as Sean Lawson and Mike Gerhart. We are very excited to talk shop with this years hosts as they walk us through an evening of beer, food and fun!

Sadly, this will be the last SIPDinner! Or at least the last one in the MRG Stark’s Pub. (We’re not quite ready to put a fork in this event just yet…!)  But there are only about 2 dozen tickets left so we encourage you to reserve your seats today! You can get them here!

Other Important SIP Notes:

• SIPBeer tickets are now SOLD OUT! If you purchased tickets at either of our Pop Up Sales, you must redeem them by August 31! Click here to get that over with.
• We still have tickets for SIPCoffee available. We will announce our Roaster Line Up soon.

Mark Drutman

Mark Drutman explains all the things.

Mark Babson, doing his thing at River Roost