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One more option, that’s how I look at it. Crescent Brewing has started getting their taps around town, right now they are in Brick 29 and the Nampa Winger’s with more places on the way. They’ll also be pouring beer at the Boise BeerFest here in a couple of weeks.

Great story from the Idaho Press-Tribune here.

Make sure you check out Patrick Orr’s write-up about next month’s 3-day-long Boise BeerFest in the Idaho Statesman Scene.

A minor quibble though, Avery, Great Divide, Bear Republic and Southern Tier beers are available in the Boise market, they are just limited to Brewforia in Meridian.

On the disclosure side, I’ve been helping Rick out at Brewforia (which explains my absence here) and I’ll be helping out at Boise BeerFest…I’ll have a “what the hell is going on here…post” in the coming days.

No links today, we’re headed out to Idaho Falls for the Mountain Brewer’s Fest.

If ya plan on coming over and you happen to see me, come say hi. We’ll be back to normal linkage on Monday morning. If I find the time I’ll try to post some things from the eastern side of our fair state.

Check out the Boise Co-op’s website to see what is happening in Boise all this week.

As the air starts to warm up that means only one thing, it’s time to celebrate beer. And to get things started there are plenty of beer related festivities to keep you busy starting next week.

• Next week Boise kicks off American Craft Beer Week, check out the Boise Co-op’s website for details on the plethora of events.
• Blues, Brews, and BBQ (PDF link) is this Friday and Saturday, May 14th and 15th - the event takes place at Boise Hawks’ Stadium and will feature several Idaho breweries including: Salmon River Brewing, Sun Valley Brewing, Grand Teton, Sockeye, TableRock, The Ram, and Highlands Hollow.
• And if you feel like heading over to Idaho Falls don’t forget that the Mountain Brewer’s Beer Fest is the first Saturday of June. It’s always a good time and definitely worth the drive. Here is a post about last year’s beer fest — hopefully the weather will be better this year, but who really cares when you have good beer and good people?

Well, the beer can’t taste itself.

All-in-all it was a great tasting weekend, Allagash, Lost Abbey, Wasatch, Ska, Bell, Stone, etc… etc…

Lotsa beer news for you beer lovers.

Brewforia continues to get in some top-notch stuff, Sofi and Pere Jacques from Goose Island out of Chicago are two outstanding Belgian-style beers. Colette returns from Great Divide along with new-comer Samurai a subtle rice ale. Avery Sixteen is an extremely pleasant drinker, a saison brewed with jasmine flowers, honey and peaches. Ninkasi Spring Reign just hit the shelves yesterday, it’s a nice spring ale with some malts upfront and then finishes with a nice hop tang.

This is just a sample of all the new stuff on the shelves, there is a lot more ya gotta check out.

Click below for updates from the Boise Co-op and the Front Door which includes a “garage sale” of bottled beers and some good lookin’ brewer’s dinners.

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Mark your calendars, April 24th is the 1st Annual Crawl Around Downtown, a benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. For 35$ (online) or 45$ (at the door) you get 7 drink tickets good for 6oz pours of different beers at participating Downtown Boise eateries and watering holes. Some of the particapating establishments include Bardenay, Bittercreek Alehouse, The Piper Pub & Grill, Bar Gernika, The Falcon Tavern plus a few others.

Check out the site to buy tickets and get more information — space is limited so ya gotta hurry if you’re interested.