Nine Giant is having a heck of an awesome time over there in Pleasant Ridge. If you want to see a brewery that really captures what it means to operate a small brewpub with style, they are definitely the top of the list for you to check out. If you haven’t seen their new space, though – you’re missing out on a whole other side of who they are. Things over there are surprisingly familiar, while still being incredibly different.

Nine Giant’s Fermentorium is their new expansion, literally around the corner from their brewpub. The new space is part tiki cocktail lounge, part event space, and part barrel-aged beer Mecca for Nine Giant fans. Tucked below your feet while you’re sipping away on a scorpion bowl with your closest friends is the center of the Nine Giant barrel-aging universe, a warehouse that houses all their current and upcoming barrel aging products.

Now that the new space is up and running, cocktails are flowing, and people are starting to talk about what they are going, Nine Giant is celebrating. It’s time to start saluting the barrels that the space was built for!

About The Festival

How better do you salute barrel-aged beer, than by inviting some of your friends and fellow breweries to bring some of their absolute favorite and best barrel-aged offerings to load up a tap list of the incredible beer for all of us to sample?

The act of holding or attending a beer festival is something that is really important to me. It presents not just the finest beer that you can find at that time, but it reminds us of the community and camaraderie that I think makes a lot of us fall in love with craft beer to being with. Nine Giant knows this, and the group of breweries that they have invited is an excellent showcase of that.

The Beer List

You can’t talk about a beer festival without talking about beer, right?

  • Nine Giant – All The Barrel Aged Goodies they can find…
  • Antiques on High – Red Den – Berliner with raspberries and cherries
  • Antiques on High – Wax Poetic – Sour Blonde
  • Alexandria Brewing Company – BBA Barleywine
  • Brink – Duncan Clan no water Kelly’s Candy Cuveê
  • Darkness – BBA Blumpkin
  • Darkness – Anniversary Imperial Stout, 2 year BBA
  • Fifty West – Six Feet Under Barleywine
  • Fifty West – Paths Worn, Wild Farmhouse Ale
  • HighGrain – Boost Belgian Golden Strong
  • HighGrain – Aww, Shucks Rye Oyster Stout
  • Listermann – Mon Amour Flanders Red
  • Little Fish – Maker of Things BBA Flanders Red
  • Little Fish – Woodthrush Bierre De Garde
  • MadTree – Joon
  • MadTree – BA Axis Mundi
  • Masthead – Unbounded Principles BBA Belgian Quad
  • Masthead – Underverse BBA Pumpkin Stout
  • Narrow Path – BA Wee Heavy
  • Northern Row – BBA Barleywine
  • Northern Row – BBA Imperial Schwarzbier
  • Orpheus – Mining Solitude from Darkness Imperial Stout
  • Rhinegeist – Nightwhale
  • Rhinegeist – Ruby Paradox Sour Dark Ale
  • Sonder – Foeder Funk
  • Streetside – Plague Doctor
  • Streetside – High Tea batch 2
  • Taft’s – Imperial Gustav BA Vienna Lager
  • Wolf’s Ridge – Cuvee with vanilla (Imperial Stout, Barleywine, Belgian Quad)
  • Wolf’s Ridge – Black Mangrove mixed fermentation dark sour

The Details

The festival takes place in two different sessions, next weekend on October 16th. The first session runs from 2-5pm and the second runs from 6-9. There a very limited amount of tickets available, so make sure that you snag yours asap!

With your ticket, you’ll get 20 tasting tickets, a commemorative glass and a guaranteed ton of fun during the event.

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