The Festival 2019: Participating brewers

International Participants as of September 10, 2019 – Final List 8 Wired – New Zealand Au Baron – France Baird – Japan Bellwoods – Canada Blaugies – Belgium Boundary – Northern Ireland Brasserie Dunham – Canada Brew By Numbers – England Brewski – Sweden Buxton…

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Events surrounding The Festival: Buffalo!

*We’ll continue updating this list as we learn of more events!*   Around Buffalo: Wednesday, 10/2 Mean Sardine event at Allen Burger Venture (175 Allen St, Buffalo, NY 14201) Magic Rock event at Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St, Rochester, NY 14620) Thursday, 10/3 Bellwoods…

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This Year’s Shelton Brothers Insider Tours!

It’s official — the Shelton Brothers Insider Tours launch this spring! Our first excursion, “Bières on the Frontières,” runs from May 13-18, 2019. Very limited spaces for this unique Belgium-France jaunt are now available — click here to view the itinerary and see how to…

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Let’s Get Ready to (Tropical) Rumble!

We may be in the throes of winter, but we’re still feeling the tropical vibes and reaching for refreshing brews. We’re not ready to give in to blizzards and big, heavy stouts quite yet. Plus, the low ABV (4.3%) might even help with Dry(ish) January…

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Please, sir, I want some cider!

Tom Oliver of Oliver’s Cider & Perry will be heading to CiderCon in Baltimore in late January, and we’ll be setting up some great cider events in the area. Stay tuned for event specifics, but for now here’s what we’re excited about from the legendary English cidery:…

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Events Around The Festival

The guys at Liberator in Georgia have put together an absolutely insane lineup of events. There are quite a few great spots out in Decatur (a short Uber/Lyft away) that are all worth checking out. We encourage you to go to as many as you…

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Festival Beer List 2017!

Finally, we have the beer list for The Festival 2017! Just a few TBDs to fill in, so stay tuned. We’ve also created this handy-dandy Excel version of the list, for those of you who might want to make notes or do other Excel-y things….

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Food at The Festival!

In an effort to keep the food lines moving as quickly as possible, we’re offering the option of buying food tokens in advance! All the food options will be the same price (1 token = 1 meal), and you’ll save money by buying ahead of…

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As American As Apple Cider

When the Founding Fathers came together to tackle tough issues (such as, “Our water is undrinkable — what the hell are we gonna do?”), they were able to put aside their many partisan squabbles and come up with a simple plan that was sensible, practical,…

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Winter (Beer) is coming…

We’re nearing the end of the year 2016. And the Shelton Brothers are here to warn you that the darkest of days are soon to envelop us all… No, this isn’t another stop-Trump pitch — we’re trying to sell some beer here. In particular, the…

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Festival Beer List!

18th Street Brewery Every Session: BA Hunter Session 1: BA Wild Peach Session 2: BA Cherry Gose Session 3: Deal With the Devil 7venth Sun Brewery Every Session: Yuzu Lager Session 1: At Least You Won’t Die Wondering Session 2: BA La Fête Session 3:…

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Zwanze Day 2016!

Behold, this year’s Zwanze Day locations! – Anchorage Brewing Company — Anchorage, Alaska – Armsby Abbey — Worcester, Massachusetts – Avenue Pub — New Orleans, Louisiana – Bagby Beer — Oceanside, California – Beachwood BBQ — Seal Beach, California – Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project…

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Yes, We Can!

Here at Shelton Brothers, our favorite word has always been “can.” Bring in a full container of funky Belgian lambic fifteen years before anyone in America liked sour beer? Can do! Import rustic IPAs from Mediterranean garage-breweries whose own neighbors didn’t know they existed? How…

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Lager Love

The Shelton kids grew up on lager, and our go-to beer at the dinner table as children was the quite-dry Piels Real Draft. Poured from Dad’s 33cL bottle straight into two-ounce un-tilted Dixie Cups for maximum head-retention, “PRD” (just kidding, people used real words in…

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