Thank You, Harpoon Brewery!

We work hard every day at Ticket Alternative, but we have fun while we’re doing it. Although we’re based in Atlanta, we ticket events all over the country and one of our favorites to work is the American Craft Beer Fest in Boston. We’ve been working with Todd and Jason Alström for four years now, and each year we’re on-site helping making sure entry to their event is fast and easy.

Our friends at Harpoon Brewery produce this and many other great beer events at their brewery in Boston, like the Mass Brewers Fest. Harpoon Brewery host an after-party each year with many guest brewers adding their beers to the taps in their brewery store. We’ve met many of their team; they’re a great bunch of people – and they make great beer! There’s a lot of similarities between our company cultures and we love their Harpoon Helps initiative.

We recently asked Warren Dibble (Harpoon Brewery VP and CTO) about his experience working with us and here’s what he had to say:

“Over the last four years, I have worked with Ticket Alternative on six different events promoting craft beer with two different organizations. Their service is great. Their principals and team members have consistently shown a high degree of integrity. Furthermore, they have been a pleasure to work with. I fully endorse them!”

Other beer festivals we work with include the Decatur Beer Fest, Winter Beer Carnival and the Vermont Brewers Fest.

Interested in selling tickets to your beer festival with us? Find out more here.

More Tickets Opened Up for Vermont Brewers Festival’s Friday Session! – UPDATE: SOLD OUT!

For those who didn’t get a chance to buy tickets to the Vermont Brewers Festival before it sold out earlier this week, you still have a chance to go! We just released a few tickets for the session on Friday, July 15. But get them fast – they’re already flying off the shelves!

UPDATE: These tickets are SOLD OUT again. Hope you got yours!

A Beer Advocate’s Dream Come True: Stoudts Announces Dates for 20th Annual Microfest

Come down to Stoudts Beer Garden in Adamstown, Pa. for the 20th Annual Microfest! Sample some of the best beers the industry has to offer in your very own festival tasting glass. Chef Jim Carr will be offering a variety of delicious dishes that are sure to compliment the great beers featured at the Microfest. Some of the dishes include smoked brisket, a Pulled Beef sandwich in Fat Dog Stout Jus, sliced Pork Sliders with APA Jus, Asian BBQ Drummies, Veggie Pasta Primavera, Macaroni salad, and our famous German Potato salad. How good do those sound? Stoudts is proud to offer the freshest ingredients from local farmers and purveyors, changing the menu each season to ensure that the best food accompanies some of the greatest beers in the world!

Tickets are $35. With the ticket you also get great entertainment, and a free shuttle to and from select local hotels.

There are three different days to come to the festival; June 11, August 27 and October 15. Each day will have two sessions, each lasting for four hours.

American Craft Beer Fest – The East Coast’s Premier Craft Beer Festival

Get ready for the 4th annual American Craft Beer Fest featuring over 400 craft beers from over 100 American brewers. Held at the Seaport World Trader Center Boston, ACBF is the largest celebration of American craft beer on the East Coast. The festival will take place on June 3 and 4. There will be one session on June 3 and two  sessions on June 4.

What is a craft beer? A craft beer can be defined by three characteristics:

1. Small: Annual production of beer less than two million barrels. Beer production is attributed to a brewer according to the rules of alternating proprietorships. Flavored malt beverages are not considered beer for purposes of this definition.

2. Independent: Less than 25 percent of the craft brewery is owned or controlled (or equivalent economic interest) by an alcoholic beverage industry member who is not themselves a craft brewer.

3. Traditional: A brewer who has either an all malt flagship (the beer which represents the greatest volume among that brewers brands) or has at least 50 percent of it’s volume in either all malt beers or in beers which use adjuncts to enhance rather than lighten flavor.

The three  sessions are as follows:

* Friday Session (June 3, 2011, 6  – 9:30 p.m.)
* Saturday Session One (June 4, 2011, 1 – 4:30 p.m.)
* Saturday Session Two (June 4, 2011, 6 – 9:30 p.m.)

Tickets are $45 per session and include: entry into one session, access to over 400 craft beers, all 2oz beer tastings, compostable tasting cup, and festival guide.

Be safe and have a great time!

HOToberFest Comes to Atlanta This Weekend!

HOToberFest is the largest Consumer-Judged Beer Tasting & Competition, combined with Atlanta’s best Sustainable Festival and a neighborhood festival in Atlanta’s historic Glenwood Park Neighborhood. Taking place on October 2, the festival will feature 170 craft beers, live music, artist market, food vendors, kid’s area and more!

Not only will there be incredible beer for tastings, but there will also be delicious food from locals Vickery’s, Matador Cantina, The Shed, as well as German brats and some great BBQ. Yum. And of course there will be live music from Michael Tolcher and the Pros, Caroline and the Ramblers and others.

And then of course there is the tasting competition, which is the largest consumer-judged competition in the country. It will feature loads of incredible rare and one of a kind beers brewed just for the festival, as well as some great micro-brews, old favorites and a couple of breweries that have just debuted in Atlanta.

For those who want a bit more of an exclusive experience, you should spend the extra dollars and get yourself a VIP ticket, which gets you into the festival an hour early, access to 40 rare and exclusive beers not available for the rest of the festival-goers, access to the Firkin VIP Tent (which will have a nice big flatscreen TV showing SEC football) and VIP-only restrooms. Sounds like a perfect day to us.

You can buy the tickets at the link below – don’t forget, tickets bought in advance are $10 cheaper than those at the gate!

Decatur Craft Beer Festival 2010 Tickets Go on Sale September 20 – SOLD OUT!

We’re very excited to announce that tickets for 2010′s Decatur Craft Beer Festival are going on sale September 20. The event is set to take place on October 16 in downtown Decatur, Ga., and will feature more than 100 of  the best local, national and international beers, as well as live music and food from local restaurants. Decatur truly is one amazing beer town, and this festival has a history of selling out pretty fast, so be sure to get your tickets for this incredible beer-lovers paradise.

UPDATE: The tickets are all gone! They sold out within hours. Hope you got yours!

Discounted Early Bird Tickets To Be Released for HOToberFest 2010 Monday, July 12!

Ticket Alternative will be releasing special early bird tickets for the upcoming HOToberFest in Atlanta. This exciting sale will take place Monday, July 12 and will feature a limited number of general admission tickets for $20 – that’s $10 off the usual advanced purchase price!

HOToberFest is the largest Consumer-Judged Beer Tasting & Competition combined with Atlanta’s best Sustainable Festival and a neighborhood festival in Atlanta’s historic Glenwood Park Neighborhood. Taking place on October 2, the festival will feature 170 craft beers, live music, artist market, food vendors, kid’s area and more! And it will raise money for local non-profits.

Get ready to take advantage of this special offer this coming Monday – it won’t last long!

Inaugural Boulder SourFest is SOLD OUT Again!

The tickets released early this morning for Avery Brewing Company’s Inaugural Boulder SourFest are already gone! Sorry if you didn’t get a chance to get one.

More Tickets To Be Released for Sold-Out Inaugural Boulder SourFest!

If you missed out on getting tickets for the Inaugural Boulder SourFest, then you have another chance! Ticket Alternative will be releasing a few more tickets for Avery Brewery’s beer festival on Thursday, February 18 at 8 a.m. MST (10 a.m. EST). They’ll go fast so be ready to buy them right on time!