In just over a week unlimited beer will be flowing in Parc International and you are invited, you lucky ducklings.
Gulf Brew 2011 is one of the biggest fundraisers that the Acadiana Center for the Arts throws every year and it's not without reason: The best of beer and food from the Gulf Coast region makes for a great way to pass a Saturday evening. Huge white tents blanket the park and have more than adequate air conditioning.
If you buy a regular ticket it's $25 and the shindig starts at 6 p.m. July 23. However, if you buy a $50 ticket you get in an hour earlier which means no lines. You can only enter Gulf Brew if you are 21 or older. It's $15 for a non-taster ticket, which means you don't get beer. I'm not quite sure who this option appeals to but if it's you then mazel tov! Get your tickets online here or by calling AcA at 233-7060 or simply going to its box office to pick some up.
What kind of beers? Well, the AcA was kind enough to let us see. Skip down to the bottom of this blog for a complete listing of the beers being offered with your ticket price that day.
But! This being a festival in Louisiana, beer isn't all you get. Lake Charles' band The Von Dukes play their Sun Records-soaked rockabilly starting at 5 p.m. At 6 p.m. is Rex Moroux, the Soul Express Band at 7:15 p.m. and finishing up with DJ Miyagi.
There is parking all around downtown but if you feel like biking to Gulf Brew that's is a whole other new thing this year. Starting this year, BikeLafayette will be holding what is essentially a coatcheck for bikes. Simply find the BikeLafayette bicycle corral and this advocacy and awareness group will watch over your ride while you get down to beer business.
Lafayette Homebrew Club Dead Yeast Society DYS Hefeweizen Imperial Stout DYS IPA Smoked Rye Belgian Wit Irish Red American Wheat Tabasco Pepper Ale Cascadian Dark Ale American Pale Ale Honey Amber DYS Brown Ale DYS ESB Dusseldork Alt DYS Kolsch Imperial Bourbon Vanilla Porter American Barley Wine Flanders Brown
Baton Rouge Homebrew Club Brasseurs a la Maison Vanilla Porter Panola Pale Ale Blueberry Wheat Mango Passion Fruit Wheat Pineapple Pale Ale Calypso SMASH Styrian Goldings Pale Ale
New Orleans Homebrew Club Mystic Krewe of Brew Brewsard's Black/White/Red/Brown India Style Ale Breakfast Stout Hotcho Momma Heavenly Heffe Pete's Pleasant Porter Kolsch
Beer provided by Glazer's, Shilling and Crescent Crown Distributing: Abita Abbey Ale Abita Andygator Abita Satsuma Abita Jockamo Abita Wheat Abita Light Anchor Liberty Ale Anchor Porter Ayinger Brau-Weisse Ayinger Ur-Weisse Bass Ale Boddingtons Blue Moon Belgian White Blue Moon Summer Brooklyn Lager Brooklyn Summer Brother Theolnious Abby Chimay Blue Label Ale Chimay White Label Coney Island Python Covington Brewhouse Bayou Bock Covington Brewhouse Pontchartrain Pilsner Dixie Grimbergen Blond Grimbergen Dubbel Hacker Pschorr Original Hacker Pschorr Weisse Harpoon Summer He'Brew Messiah Bold Heiner Brau Kolsch Heiner Brau Märzen Heiner Brau Strawberry Kalik Kalik Gold LA-31 LA-31 Grenade LA-31 Boucanne Leffe La Chouffe Belgian Golden La Goudale Laughing Skull Lazy Magnolia Jefferson Stout Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan Leinenkugal Sunset Wheat Lindemans Cassis Lindemans Peche Lambic Magic Hat #9 Mendocino Brew Blu Heron Mendocino Brew White Hawk Monks' Ale Monks' Wit Murphy's Irish Stout Parish Amber Parish Canebrake Paulaner Hefe-Weizen Paulaner Munich Lager Red Hook ESB Red Hook IPA Rogue American Amber Ale Rogue Hazelnut Brown Ale Salva Vida St. Arnold's Fancy Lawnmower St. Arnold's Seasonal Sam Adams Blackberry Sam Adams Cherry Wheat Sam Adams Latitude 48 Sam Adams Summer Samuel Smith Nut Brown Samuel Smith Oatmeal Samuel Smith Organic (cherry/strawberry) Schneider Ale Aventinus Schneider Ale Weisse Schneider Edel Weisse Shock Top Raspberry Sierra Bianca Rio Grand Desert Sierra Bianca Rio Grand IPA Sierra Bianca Outlaw Lager Sierra Bianca Rio Grand Chile Cerveza Spaten W Franz Hefe Weis Spaten W Optimator Stone Arrogant Bastard Stone Old Guardian Stone Ruination IPA Tin Roof Brewery Unibroue Blanche Chambly Unibroue La Fin du Monde Woodchuck Cider Pear Woodchuck Cider Raspberry Zea beers Ziegnebock