Enjoy Elgin Craft Beer Fest along the riverfront promenade Aug. 11
The Elgin Breakfast Rotary Club invites the community to its second annual Elgin Craft Beer Fest from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, along the Elgin Riverfront Promenade, 100 S. Riverside Drive. It will feature more than 60 craft beers, ciders, other specialty drinks, food, musical entertainment, and games along the Fox River waterfront. Purchase advance tickets online at www.elgincraftbeerfest.com.
Send in the Clones will provide the musical entertainment this year at the Elgin Craft Beer Fest. They play an eclectic mix of music that runs the gamut from The Beatles and Marvin Gaye to hip-hop to Linkin Park, Metallica, and the Zac Brown Band. They pride themselves on performing all music and vocal parts live with passion and raw emotion.
The VIP beers include: Founders' KBS; Goose Island's Bourbon County Brand Stout; Crystal Lake's Boathouse Series Imperial Stout; Boulder's Killer Penguin; Pollyanna's Fun Size Raspberry; and Stone's Berlin Collaboration Series.
Other featured beers include: Boulder Beer's Shake Chocolate Porter and Due East NE IPA; Abita's 30-90 and Creole Cream; Solemn Oath's Bedroom Eyes and End All; Stone Brewing's Fear. Movies. Lions IPA and Idolatrous IPA; Short's Brewing's Huma Lupa and Soft Parade; The Bruery's Frucht's Cranberry & Orange and Tart of Darkness; Sun King's Osiris and Sunlight; Boulevard's Jam Band and Berliner Weiss; Half Day's Chieftain and Meridian Wit; Kinslahger's Baltic Porter and Munich Dunkel; New Belgium's Hemperor and Juicy Haze; Scorched Earth's I.I. Sir Lush and Hickster; Sierra Nevada's Tropical Torpedo and Hazy Little Thing; Blue Moon's Belgium White and Mango; Sam Adams's Sam 76 and New England IPA; Crystal Lake Brewing's Busted Prop and Backflip Wit; 350 Brewing's Moon Stomper and Howdy Neighbor; Revolution Brewing's Freedom of Speach and Tropic Hero; Alaskan Brewing's Amber and Husky IPA; Pollyanna's Die Dreaming and Summerly; Heretic's Make America Juicy Again and Juicier Than Thou; Ballast Point's Mango Even Keel and Pineapple Sculpin; Wild Onion's Crazy Fingers; Noon Whistle's Gummy IPA and Smack That; Finch's Sungasm and Tacocat; Lakefront's Fixed Gear and Strange Neighbor; Half Acre's Tuna and Deep Space DIPA; Founders Brewing's Green Zebra and Dankwood; Moody Tongue's Chocolate Churro Porter and Applewood Gold; Hoffman Estates Bier Garden's Hofbrau Original and Hofbrau Dunkel; Lagunitas's Czech Pils and Cherry Jane; Goose Island's Old Man Grumpy and Sofie; Perennial Artisan Ales's Hopfentea and Suburban Beverage Gose; Sweetwater Brewing's 420 Extra Pale and Goin Coastal; Firestone Walker's Luponic Distortion and 805.
Participating restaurants include Arabica Coffee, Legit Dogs & Ice, Billy Bricks Pizza Cafe, Elgin Public House and Grumpy Goat Tavern.
Go online for the $40 general admission ticket which includes 20 beer samples and a commemorative glass; day-of tickets are $45. The $60 VIP entry includes noon early access, special seating area with premium "Beers & Bites" served all day, tables and chairs, 20 beer samples, and a commemorative glass. Cost for designated driver ticket is $15, which includes water and soda.
Some proceeds go to help these important local nonprofit supporters: Food for Greater Elgin, Taylor Family YMCA, Community Crisis Center, Ecker Center for Mental Health and PADS of Elgin.
Follow the Facebook page for event updates at www.elgincraftbeerfest.com or www.facebook.com/ElginCraftBeerFest.
They are looking for people to volunteer and help. They need people to help pour beer, take tickets, and help provide an overall great festival experience. To sign up, visit www.elgincraftbeerfest.com.
The Elgin Breakfast Rotary is a small group of committed people who are dedicated to serving primarily Elgin but impacting the region and world through a combination of collaborative projects. Club members fundraise and donate an estimated $20,000 annually to a broad range of community projects. They also have built international relationships in three countries, including Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil through its ongoing commitment to Rotary's Youth Exchange Program.
The club was chartered in 1989 and plays a vital role in the Elgin area community. Through community-based activities, the club meets many community's needs including: youth literacy, health and human safety, education, cultural diversity, and the international effort to eradicate polio.
To generate funds toward these local, regional, and global initiatives, the club conducts numerous fundraising/community building events including: ringing bells to raise money for The Salvation Army, partnering with a local preschool and volunteering to read each month in "Reading Buddies," and building mini wooden structures to house books around the community to allow access to books for all in "Little Library Project."
They also host and sponsor the Rotary Youth Exchange with high school students from foreign countries.
With the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy, they annually sponsor local teens to attend a three day camp that emphasizes leadership skills, personal development and citizenship.
The Business 25 Scholarship awards $1,000 in scholarships to Elgin students for postsecondary education; and the G. Michael Greene Scholarship awards a $2,000 scholarship annually to an Elgin area student for postsecondary education with a focus on teaching.
The club also supports polio eradication and Rotary International's efforts to eradicate polio from the face of the earth. Visit www.facebook.com/ElginBreakfastRotaryClub/