CALENDAR / HORARIO DE EVENTOS

Last updated 10 noviembre 2004

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2004

January

January 9-10 - Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival, homebrew competition and commercial tasting, Vail, Colorado, 970-524-1092, BigBeersFestival@hotmail.com
January 10 - BAM Iran Earthquake Relief Benefit, Jazz, food & beers, 7 pm, 50 euro, 174 chée de Wavre, 1050 Brussels, Belgium, tel: 02 512 17 88
January 10 - Great Arizona Strong Beer Festival, $10+$1, Scottsdale Stadium, Scottsdale, Arizona, 602-212-1540
January 16-17 - 10th Annual Great Alaskan Beer & Barleywine Fesitval, 30+ beers, Anchorage, Alaska, 907-562-9911
January 17 - 2nd Annual Strong Ale Festival, noon to 4pm, Pumphouse Brewery and Restaurant, Longmont, Colorado
January 17 - Beer Advocate Extreme Beer Fest at the Cyclorama, $25, Boston, Massachusetts, www.beeradvocate.com
January 19 - New Mexico Identic-ale Tasting, 3-7 pm, An opportunity to taste all nine commercial New Mexico Identic-ales, plus several homebrewed versions. Benefit for Roadrunner Food Bank, Il Vicino Brewery, 4000 Vassar NE, Albuquerque
January 24 - Beer Summit Winter Jubilee at the Hilton Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, www.beersummit.com
January 24-31 - Moan & Dove Belgian Beer Fest, 14 Belgians on tap, Amherst, Massachusetts, 413-256-1710
January 25 - Connecticut Real Ale Festival, 60+ cask ales, 1-5pm, advance tickets only, Bru Rm @ Bar, Mountview Plaza, New Haven, Connecticut, 203-729-5445
January 28 - Brewers Dinner at Anam Cara with Harpoon Brewery, 4 beers and 4 courses, Brookline, Massachusetts, 617-277-2880
January 30 - 9th Annual Brew Ha Ha, homebrew competition and commercial tasting. $25, 970-524-1092, BigBeersFestival@hotmail.com
January 31 - Central New York Brewfest, 1-4 & 6-9, $18/$20, State Fairgrounds International Building, Syracuse, New York, 315-471-9989
January 31 - 6th annual Chicagoland Brewpub & Microbrewery Shootout, Sponsored by the Chicago Beer Society, 1-5pm at Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago, Illinois

February

February 6-7 - White Cliffs Festival of Winter Ales, 70 beers, £2, 'til 11pm, Maison Dieu, Dover, England, www.topsy.demon.co.uk/dds_camra/2004fest.html
February 6-7 - 2nd Annual Strong Ale Festival, Barrel House II, Boulder, Colorado, 303-440-4329, www.averybrewing.com, info@averybrewing.com
February 7 - Boston Homebrew Competition, hosted at Watch City Brewing, Waltham, Massachusetts
February 7-8 - 4th Annual Double IPA Festival, 30 beers & BBQ, $15, The Bistro, Hayward, California, 510-886-8525
February 20-21 - Kansas City Bier Meisters Regional Homebrew Competition, dinner & guest speaker, Holy Field Vineyard & Winery, Kansas, www.kcbiermeisters.org
February 20-22 - Magic Hat Mardi Gras, masks, costumes, parade. Burlington, Vermont, www.magichat.com
February 21 - Great Atlanta Pub Crawl, $25, Atlanta, Georgia, www.thebeercellar.com/crawl.shtml
February 21 - Beer Drinker of the Year Finals, Wynkoop Brewpub, Denver, Colorado
February 21-28 - Toronado Barley Wine Festival, 11:30 - 2am, Toronado, 547 Haight St., San Francisco, California, 415-863-2276
February 28 - Bottlework's 2nd Annual Hard Liver Barley Wine Festival, $25/$30, 7-9:30pm, 32+ beers, Bottleworks, 1710 North 45th Street, 206-633-BEER

March

March 4-6 - Real Ale Fest Alternative (write the Mayor!), dinners & tasting at Goose Island, Chicago, Illinois, www.realalefestival.com
March 6-7 - Zythos Bier Festival, sucessor to OBP 24-hours of Beer, 12-24 & 10-22 hours, 1€/sample, 50 brewers, 150 beers, Stadsfeestzaal van Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, www.zbf.be
March 13 - Kona Brewers Festival, 2:30-6:30 p.m., 30 breweries, 60 beers, $35/$40, King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, www.konabrewingco.com/brewfest.html
March 14 - Blessing of the Bock, noon-4:30, homebrew contest, bock & specialty beer tasting, $30/$40, Serb Memorial Hall, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, www.milwaukeebeerfest.com
March 20 - Boulder Revel, tasting of mead, wine and beers. Boulder, Colorado
March 21 - 10th Brew to Brew, 43 mile solo and relay run, Boulevard Brewery (Kansas City) to Freestate Brewery (Lawrence), dinner with beer at finish, 816-228-3842
March 28-29 - Great Arizona Beeer Festival, 2-6, Arizona Center at Copper Square at 5th Street & Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, www.azbeer.com/phoenix/

April

April 2-3 - Helsinki Beer Festival, Fr 18-02, Sa 12-02, Kaapelitehtaan Merikaapelihalli (Cable Factory), Helsinki, Finland, Info: hbf@popzoo.fi
April 3-9th annual Classic City Brew Fest, Athens, Georgia,
April 7-16 - National Homebrew Competition, AHA national judging, www.beertown.org
April 12-14 - World Beer Cup Judging, Town and Country Resort, San Diego, California, 303-447-0816
April 13-16 - BEER 2004, Exhibition Pavilion, Minsk, Belarus
April 14-17 - Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo, World Beer Cup award ceremony, Town & Country Resort, San Diego, California, www.beertown.org
April 24 - City Paper Brewfest, 1-6 p.m., $15/$20, Power Plant Live, Baltimore, Maryland, cpgo.citypaper.com/calendar/event.asp?whatID=39749, 410-727-5483

May

May 3-4 - Maifest, Amana Colonies, Amana, Iowa, 319-622-7622
May 8 - 8th Annual Boonville Beer Festival, Boonville, California, fallen@avbc.com, www.AVBC.com
May 8 - Maryland Brewer's Spring Fest, noon to 9pm, $15, 12+ breweries, Great Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick, Maryland, www.mdbeerfest.com/
May 14-16 - BIERBÖRSE, Essen, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
May 22 - Parkville Beer Festival, local craft beers and local yokal Parkville PD cops looking to throw visitors in jail, Parkville, Missouri
May 29 - Brew at the Zoo, 3-7pm, craft beer and the zoo's animal family, 410-396-7102, www.baltimorezoo.org
May 29 - 2nd annual New Mexico Brewfest, 8 breweries, 14 bands, Taos, New Mexico

June

June 4-5 - Harpoon Brewstock, Boston, Massachusetts, 888-HARPOON
June 4-6 - BIERBÖRSE, Weimar, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
June 5 - Pennsylvania Microbrewers Festival, music & beers in three sessions, noon, 3:30 & 8pm, $31, Pennsylvania Brewery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pennbrew@hotmail.com, www.pennbrew.com, 412-237-9402
June 5 - 21st annual International Beer Tasting, 6-8pm, Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, Louisiana
June 5-6 - Karacterbierweekend Hop 2004 - 14-23hrs, 17 brewers, 72beers, Vichte, Belgium, www.karakterbierweekend.be
June 5 - Beerfest, 1-5, Luther Burbank Center, 35+ micros, food & music, $28/$35, Santa Rosa, California, 707-546-3600, http://www.monitor.net/beerfest
June 8-11 - Gal Beer, Galati, Romania
June 5 - 10th Mountain Brewers' Beer Fest, Sandy Downs, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 208-528-6223, www.northamericanbrewers.org
June 9-12 - BIERBÖRSE, Dortmund, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
June 11-12 - San Diego Real Ale Festival, Pizza Port, Carlsbad, California, info@pizzaport.com
June 11-12 - International Beer Festival, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
June 11-13 - 4th annual St. Lawrence Market Craft Beer Show & BBQ Cook-Off, 20 craft breweries, St. Lawrence Market Complex, Toronto, Ontario, www.goodbeer.ca
June 12 - Dunwoody Beer Festival, 2-8pm, 140 beers, live bands, tent, $25, 770-671-9758
June 12 - Great Eastern Invitational Microbrewers Festival, Stoudts Brewery, Adamstown, Pennsylvania, www.stoudtsbeer.com
June 16-18 - 26th Annual National Homebrewers Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, beerandloafing.org
June 18-20 - NWSource Brewfest, fr 5-9pm, Sa,Su 11-8, 101 microbrews, St. Edwards Park, Kenmore, Washington, www.washingtonbrewfest.com/summer/
June 18-20 - Y108 Good Beer Expo Hamilton, food & entertainment, Dundurn Castle, Hamilton, Ontario
June 19 - Harrisburg Brewer's Fest, $25/$30, 4-9pm, 30 breweries, downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 717-671-4000
June 19 - 7th National Craft Beer Festival, Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
June 25-27 - 8th Old Dominion Beer Festival, Ashburn, VA
June 25-27 - Bierpassie, Fr 14-23, Sa 13-23, Su 13-20, Hangar 29, Rijnkaai 150, Antwerp, Belgium, www.bierpassion.com
June 26 - Ale Festival, Indianapolis, Indiana, 317-612-3394
June 29-4 - Regclal Beril, Bacau, Romania
June 30-3 - 2nd Annual Downtown Peterborough Craft Beer Show, 12 craft breweries, BBQ cook-off, Millennium Park, Peterborough, Ontario

July

July 2-4 - BIERBÖRSE, Leipzig, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
July 3 - 8th annual Colorado Brewers Rendezvous, 40+ Colorado craft breweries, Riverside Park, Salida, Colorado, 877-772-5432
July 7-11 - Õllesummer 11, 100+ beers, Lauluväljak, Tallinna, Estonia
July 9 - Empire State Brewing & Music Festival - 200 beers, 60 breweries, $20/$25, 5-10pm Clinton Square, Syracuse, New York, www.empirestatebrewingfestival.com
July 9-11 - Portland International Beer Festival, Portland, Oregon
July 9-11 - 1st Annual Downtown Kitchener Craft Beer Show, 12 craft breweries, BBQ cook-off, Victoria Park, Kitchener, Ontario
July 10 - Barrington Micro Brew Fest, Barrington, Illinois, 847-382-6136
July 10 - Bands, Brews & BBQs, Cozad, Nebraska, 308-784-2204
July 10-18 - India Pale Ale Festival, 30+ IPAs, Lucky Baldwins, Pasadena, California, 626-795-0652
June 15-20 - Montevarchi Beer Festival, homebrew tasting, live music & culture, Montevarchi, Italy, bcf@val.it
July 16-17 Vermont Beer Festival, Burlington, Vermont, 802-244-6828, www.vermontbrewers.com/festival.html
July 16-18 - BIERBÖRSE, Mainz, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
July 16-18 - New Mexico Homebrew Clubs Campout, Holy Ghost Campground, Pecos, New Mexico
July 16-18 - 3rd Annual Downtown Barrie Craft Beer Show, 12 craft breweries, BBQ cook-off, Memorial Park, Barrie, Ontario
July 23-25 - Oregon Brewers Festival, Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon, 503-778-5917
July 23-25 - BIERBÖRSE, Bonn, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
July 24 - State College MicroBrewers & Importers Exposition - 12-4 & 6-10, $32, 150 beers, Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, State College, Pennsylvania, 814-353-8426, Info@scbrewexpo.com
July 24 - Michigan Brewers Festival, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 616-382-2338, michiganbrewersguild.org
July 24 - Alaskan Beer Festival, Fairbanks, Alaska, 907-452-1105
July 29 - New Mexico Brew Fest, $10, 10am to 10pm, 8 breweries, 10 bands, Taos, New Mexico, www.nmbrewfest.com
July 30-1 - Seattle International Beerfest, Seattle, Washington, 206-937-1800
July 30-6 - 3rd Annual All About Beer Brew Cruise, Washington, British Columbia & Alaska, $1175+, 800-824-4968, www.magichappens.com

August

August 3-7 - Great British Beer Festival, 400 real ales, £6, Olympia, London, England
august 6-7 - Flour City Brewers' Fest, 5-10pm, $15/$18, Rohrbach Brewing, www.rohrbach.com
August 6-8 - 8 Internationalen Berliner Bierfestivals, Fr 12-23, Sa 10-23, Su 10-21, live music, 200 breweries, 1700 beers, Berlin, Germany, www.bierfestival-berlin.de
August 6-8 - BIERBÖRSE, Dusseldorf, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
August 6-8 - Toronto Festival of Beer, Toronto, Ontario
August 7 - 9th annual WaZoo, 8-10:30, $30/$35, Lowry Park, Tampa, Florida, 813-935-8552x239, lowryparkzoo.com/events/home
August 7 - Jesenik Beer Festival, Jesenik, Czech Republic
August 7-8 - Mangy Moose Micro-Brew Fest, Teton Village, Wyoming, 307-773-4913
August 13-15 - New Mexico State Fair Hombrew Competition, Albuquerque, New Mexico, www.NewMexicoBrewing.org/
August 13-16 - BIERBÖRSE, Leverkusenm, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
August 14 - Great Taste of the Midwest, 300 beers in great park setting, perpetually sold-out, Olin-Turville Park, Madison, Wisconsin, www.mhtg.org/gt/gt_faq.html
August 14 - Aspen Highlands Beer Festival, 1-5pm, Aspen Highlands Resort, Aspen, Colorado
August 14 - Microfestivus, Elmwood Park, Roanoke, Virginia, 540-857-4383, www.microfestivus.com
August 14-15 - 15th Annual Small Brewers Festival of California, 40+ micros, 100+ beers, $20, Mountain View, California
August 20-22 - BIERBÖRSE, Manheim, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
August 20-22 - MASHOUT, Mid-Atlantic Homebrew Clubs Campout, Rocky Gap State Park, Cumberland, Maryland
August 21 - 15th Annual Blues and Brews Cruise, Chicago, Illinois
Belgium Comes to Cooperstown, noon-4pm, $20/$30, evening campfire, food, concert, camping nearby, Cooperstown, New York, 800-544-1809, http://ommegang.com/
August 22 - Foam Fest 2004, 5-10pm, $15, Small Animal Building, Colorado State Fair, Pueblo, Colorado
August 23 - Southern Brewer's Festival, 2-11pm, downtown, Chattanooga, Tennessee, www.southernbrewersfestival.com
August 27-29 - BIERBÖRSE, Köln, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
August 28 - Denver's Beer and Wine Festival, 4-9pm, $20/$25, Larimer Street Market, Denver, Colorado
August 28-29 - Bierfestival, sponsored by Lambikstoempers, Alsemberg, Belgium

September

September 3-5 - BIERBÖRSE, Karlsruhe, Germany, www.bierboerse.com
September 3-6 - La Fête Bières & Saveurs, $23/$15, Vieux-Fort de Chambly, Quebec, Canada,www.bieresetsaveurs.com/
September 4 - 6th Annual San Juan BrewFest, 1-5pm, Durango Mountain Resort, Durango, Colorado, 970 385-2149
September 4-6 - Septemberfest, food, music and fireworks, Municipal Center, Schaumburg, Illinois
September 5 - People's Real Ale Festival, all cask ales, Clark's Ale House, Syracuse, New York, 315-479-9859
September 9 - Michigan Micro Tasting, 40+ Michigan beers, 7-9pm, Arbor Brewing, Ann arbor, Michigan, 734-213-1393
September 10 - 7th Annual Brew at the Zoo, 6:30-10pm, 25 Colorado breweries, Denver, Colorado
September 11 - Beer in the Plaza, Healdsburg, California
September 11 - Oktoberfest, ~20 breweries, 2-5 & 7-10, Red Star Brewery and Grille, Pennsylvania
September 11 - 4th annual Autumn Brew Review - 1-7, $22.50/$30, Peavey Plaza, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.mncraftbrew.org
September 11-12 - Great Canadian Beer Festival, Royal Athletic Park, Victoria, British Columbia, 250-995-8784, www.gcbf.com
September 11-12 - International Food and Ale Tasting, Michigan Renaissance Festival, Holly, Michigan
September 11-18 - New England Brew Cruise, Boston to Portland, 800-824-4968, www.magichappens.com
September 12 - Taste of the Master Brewers, 1-5, Elks Lodge, Liverpool, New York, krustie@earthlink.net
september 16-19 - Mt. Angel's 39th Annual Oktoberfest, Th-Sa 11:00-Midnight, Su 11-9:30, Mt. Angel, Mt. Angel Brewing Co., Spaten, Lowenbrau & Paulaner beers, Oregon, http://oktoberfest.org/
September 17-18 - Oktoberfest!, Big Buck Brewery, Auburn Hills, Michigan
September 17-18 - Berghoff and Blues Festival, Joseph Huber Brewing
September 17-19 - Telluride Brews & Blues Festival, 50 micros, Sa noon-3, $125/$225, Telluride, Colorado, 866-515-6166, www.tellurideblues.com
September 17-19 - Fremont Oktoberfest, 4-12, 11-12, 11-6, $15/$18/$20, 50+ Northwest micros, Oktoberfest Festival Grounds, Seattle, Oregon, www.fremontoktoberfest.com/
September 18 - Hop in the City, Schlafly Brewery, St. Louis, Missouri, http://schlafly.com/hop.shtml
September 18 - Brew Ha Ha, 1-6pm, LeClaire Park, Davenport, Iowa, 309-796-5031
September 18 - 8th annual Brewgrass Festival, 1-8pm, Asheville, North Carolina
September 18 - 3rd Annual Boston Oktoberfest, $10, Boston, Massachusetts, wqpt.org
September 18 - Buffalo Beer Festival, The Pier, Buffalo, New York, 716-632-0552
September 18 - California Brewers Festival, noon-7pm, live music & food, Freeway Gardens, Sacramento, California, 916-319-2324, www.calbrewfest.org
September 18 - 9th annual Madison County Hop Festival, Madison Historical Society, Onieda, New York, 315-363-4136
September 18 - Capitol City Invitational Beer Festival, Appalachian Brewing, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
September 18-19 - Kempisch Bierfestival, sponsored by Onder 't Schuim. Geel, Belgium
September 18-3 - Oktoberfest, 10am - 10:30pm, 6,000,000+ liters of beer, 6.3 million drinking buddies, 1,400 toilets, Munich, Germany, http://www.muenchen-tourist.de/englisch/oktoberfest/muenchen-oktoberfest-einleitung_e.htm
September 19 - Oktoberfest Zinzinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
September 24 - Danish Beer Festival, Ridehuset, Denmark, 45.28.80.80.10, www.ale.dk
September 23-25 - Stockholm Beer & Whiskey Festival, 15-24 hr Fr/Sa, 12-24hrs Su, Stockholm, Sweden, www.stockholmbeer.se
September 24-25 - Danish Beer Festival, Aarhus, Denmark, www.ale.dk
September 24-25 - Okto"beer"fest, sponsored by Indiana Brewers Guild, Mad Anthony Brewing, Ft. Wayne, Indiana
September 24-26 - Oktoberfest on the Wasserfront, Boulevard & Warsteiner beers, Kansas City, Missouri, www.kcoktoberfest.org
September 25 - River City Real Beer & Seafood Festival, Richmond, Virginia, 804-643-2826
September 25 - Great Tucson Beer Festival, 6-10, Hi-Corbett Field, Tucson, Arizona, 520-296-2400, www.azbeer.com
September 25 - All About Beer 9th annual World Beer Festival, $20/$25, 12-4 & 6-10, Durham, North Carolina, 800-977-2337
September 25 - River City Beer & Seafood Festival, noon to 9pm, Brown's Island, Richmond, Virginia, www.citycelebrations.org/beerfest/index.shtml
September 25 - Mad Anthony Brewing Company's 2nd annual Octobeerfest, $25/$30, 1-5pm, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, http://www.madbrew.com/
September 30-2 - Stockholm Beer & Whiskey Festival, 1000+ beers, whiskeys & ciders, 160/180 kr with glass, Stockholm, Sweden, www.stockholmbeer.se
September 25-10 - Stuttgart Beer Festival, parade, baloon race, beer tents, Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart, Germany
September 30-2 - Great American Beer Fesitval, 1100+ beers, 1-oz samples, Denver, Colorado

October

October 1-3 - Fredricksburg Oktoberfest, 30 varieties of domestic and imported beers, Fredericksburg, Texas, http://oktoberfestinfbg.com
October 1-10 - Oktober Fest, 7pm-12pm, SKr295, beers and music at Slagthuset, Malmö, Sweden
October 2 - Hood River Hops Fest, 12-9pm, 12 beers from the Oregon Brewers Guild, Hood River, Oregon, www.hood-river-hops.com/
October 2-30 Oktoberfest, Saturdays, 6.30pm-12am, €3 + €1.25 or €1.75, Market Square, Diksmuide, Belgium
October 8-16 - Oktoberfest, no evidence of quality beer being served, Kitchener, Ontario, www.oktoberfest.ca
October 8-9 - Newport Microbrew Festival 2004, Fr 3-10, Sa 12-10, $8, Newport, Oregon, chamber@newportnet.com
October 9 - Capitol City Oktoberfest, craft Oktoberfest styles beers, music and food, The Village in Shirlington, Arlington, Virginia, 703-578-3888
October 9 - 7th annual Kennett Brewfest, Connoisseur's single tasting 12-1:30 pm, public 2-6pm, 25 micros, $45/$25, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, http://kennettbrewfest.com/index.htm
October 9 - Charlotte Oktoberfest, 2-9pm, Charlotte, North Carolina, 704-426-6744, todd_bowman@belk.com , www.charlotteoktoberfest.com
October 9 - 10th annual Quivey's Grove Beer Fest, noon-5, $25, 6261 Nesbitt Road, Madison, Wisconsin, www.quiveysgrove.com/beerfest/beerfest2004.htm
October 16 - Knoxville Brewers Jam, 3-9, World's Fair Park, $20/$25, unlimited samples, Knoxville, Tennessee, 865-577-0760, www.brewersjam.com/
October 16 - Stoudt's 13th Annual Great Eastern Invitational Microbrewery Festival, Adamstown, Pennsylvania, www.stoudtsbeer.com
October 16 - Great Decatur Beer Tasting Festival, 1-6pm, $30, hundreds of beers, liven music & food, Decatur, Georgia, www.decatur-ga.com/cgs_citysvcs_ced_events.aspx
October 16 - Lighthouse Beer & Wine Festival, Wrightville Beach, North Carloina, 916-256-8622, www.lighthousebeerandwine.com
October 16 - Brew with a View, Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, California
October 16-17 - Maryland Brewer's Oktoberfest, 12-8pm & 12-6pm, 50+ Maryland beers, Timonium, Maryland, http://mdoktoberfest.com/
October 20-23 - CAMRA Beer Festival Stoke-on-Trent, £2 & £5, Kings Hall, Stoke Town Hall, Glebe St, Stoke-on-Trent, England
October 21-24 - Tulsa's oktoberfest, Bud, Coors, Miller, Shiner & Spaten - Yee Ha!, $3+, http://tulsaoktoberfest.org/ofest2k4/, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
October 22-23 - Hoptoberfest 2004, Buckeye Brewing, Bradford Heights, Ohio
October 23 - Great International Beer Festival, 1-4:30 & 6:30-10, $30, 250 beers, great selection of beers inside the Convention Center, Providence, Rhode Island, http://beerfestamerica.com/
October 23 - Angel Fire Oktoberfest, details unannounced, participating breweries unannounced, Angel Fire, New Mexico
October 23 - Chesapeake Real Ale Festival, 1-6, $20/$25, sponsored by the Chesapeake branch of the Society for the Preservation of Beer from the Wood, Wharf Rat, 206 W. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD, www.spbw.org/
October 25-30 - Norwich Beer Festival, 200 cask-conditioned ales, St Andrew's & Blackfriars' Halls, Norwich, England
October 26 - Belgian Beer Dinner, Redbones, 55 Chester Street, Somerville, Massachusetts, 617-628-2200, mail@redbones.com, www.redbonesbbq.com
October 28-30 - Birkenhead Real Ale Festival, 60+ beers, Pacific Road Arts Centre, Pacific Rd, Nr Woodside, Birkenhead, Merseyside CH41 1LG, England
October 29-31 - PINT Bokbierfestival, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
October 30 - Washington Cask Beer Festival V, 12-4 & 6-10, $35/$40, Seattle Center Alki Room, Seattle, Washington, www.washingtonbrewersguild.org/
October 30-31 - Heikantse Bierfeesten, sponsored by Heikantse Bierliefhebbers, Berlaar-Heikant, Belgium
October 30-31 - Herentalse Bierfeesten, 100 bers, 10 draughts, Noon+, in zaal 't Hof, Grote Markt, Herentals, Belgium, www.herentalsebierfeesten.be/

November

November 5-6 - International Mead Festival, Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, Boulder, Colorado, 720-406-1215, info@meadfest.com, www.meadfest.com/
November 6 - 2nd Annual CT Invitational Belgian Beerfest, Norwalk, Connecticut
November 6 - BeerAdvocate.com Belgian Beer Fest, Boston, Massachusetts
November 6 - Maine Brewers' Festival, $21/$25, 3-7 & 8:30-12:30, Portland, Maine, www.mainebrew.com/about.aspx
November 12-14 - 11th Weekend der Belgische Bieren, Hasselt, Belgium, www.limburgse-biervrienden.be/bierweekend/bierweekend.en.php
November 13 - Arizona Real Ale Festival, 5-11pm, $20/$25, glass & 10 5oz samples, music, food & beer, The Ice House, Phoenix, Arizona, 602-340-8717, www.azbrewguild.com/
November 12-21 - Mid-Wales Beer Festival, Real Ale Wobble and Real Ale Ramble at the free houses of Llanwrtyd Well, Wales, tic1@celt.ruralwales.org

December

December 2-4 - Harwich & Dovercourt Bay Winter Ale Festival, 11-11, 30+ ales, Kingsway Hall, Dovercourt, England
December 2-4 - Midwinter Beer Festival, 11-11, 40+ cask-conditioned real ales, Suddaby's Crown Hotel & Malton Brewery, Malton, England
December 3-4 - Holiday Ale Festival, 12-9:30, 12-9:30, 12-6, $3 + $1/4ea, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, Oregon, 503-252-9899, http://holidayale.com/html/fastfacts.html
December 3-4 - 8th Annual San Diego Strong Ale Festival, 8%+ beers, Pizza Port in Carlsbad, California, www.pizzaport.com/festivals.html
December 7-10 - Pig's Ear Beer Festival, Stratford Town Hall, London, England
December 11 - Tasting of Holiday Beers, noon-4pm, $35 advance only, Pacific Coast Brewing, Oakland, California, 510-836-2739, www.pacificcoastbrewing.com/xvitaste.htm
December 11&12 - 10th OBER Kierstbierfestival, Sa 14hrs, Su 12hrs, 15cl tastes, Parochiecentrum, Essen, Belgium, http://home2.pi.be/gmarch/kerst.htm