BevMo  BevMo Holiday BeerFest BevMo    Acacia Pinot Noir Carneros '08: $14.99 ClubBev! Chalone Chardonnay Monterey '09: $6.99 ClubBev! Souverain Cabernet '06: $12.99 ClubBev! E & J Brandy 1.75L: $12.99 ClubBev! Grey Goose Vodka: $24.98 ClubBev! Kahlua Coffee Liqueur: $13.99 ClubBev! Lindemans 12oz: $4.99+crv ClubBev! Sierra Nevada 12-pks: $12.99+crv ClubBev! Heiniken 12-pks: $11.99+crv ClubBev! Stainless Steel Shaker: $14.99 ClubBev! Finest Call Mixers: $3.49 ClubBev! Let us help you plan the perfect celebration! More info >  Customer Tour   Wilfred Wong's Blog 9 Nov Back to France to See our Vineyard Partners! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, here I am after a long and industrious 2010 year in wine, food, travel, even some bourbon or tequila when the mood strikes right. On my way for a 10-day stint to meet with our partners who actually make wines for BevMo! and my stubborn palate. Well, it is not that stubborn, but my palate does direct to me to special flavors in wines. While I rarely travel across the Atlantic in November (most of my French travel runs from February to July), I am looking forward to quite respite as I taste hundreds of wines for our Vineyard Partners program. Of course, we will have our share of Lafite, Rayas, Billecart, Roumier as well, why not? Don't we deserve it? Among our stops will be a visiting our, long time friends in Bordeaux, a quick spin to Fitou, meetings in the Rhone Valley, a spin off to Chablis, and finally a day in Paris as well as a drop into London. Designed to be a working trip (they always are), my role will be hard nose time with the technical teams and tweaking the wines to our way of life. Our Vineyards Partners program has gotten so intense that I have to be touching the vines and inspecting the caves. Well, it isn't that serious, but tasting and developing the products is a long term deal. For those of you that are not totally familiar with these wines, I encourage you to taste some our best. The '07 Chateau Ballan Larquette is a darling Bordeaux rouge with fine intensity and energy. The '07 Grandes Serres Chateauneuf-du-Pape La Cour de Papes is a stunning wine that can age over the next half-a-dozen years. Earlier this year, we poured it at a big tasting and wowed the audience. We will revisit Chateau de Brandey, one of greatest discoveries. The '08 Chateau de Brandey is spectacular and boasts of so much fruit, that you'd think the wine was from the New World. But it is well grounded in fruit de terroir! As I board my plane on Thursday, November 11th, I will be thinking of the cold weather and the solace of the warmth that will be provided by some our best winery partners in the business. Ask our BevMo! associates about our Vineyard Partners wines, they are just not slapped together with some made up label, they have become a labor of love. Oh, BTW, they are from all over including Argentina, Chile, and our home base, California. The team at Chateau de Brandey (May 19, 2009, Bordeaux, France) Me, relaxing in Carcassonne, France (May 16, 2009) The '07 Ch Ballan Larquette is drinking well now (Photo by Wilfred Wong, May 19, 2009, Bordeaux, France) A nice welcome, while I am working (Photo by Wilfred Wong, May 26, 2007, Paris, France)    Bev Mo Holiday Fest review BevMo! Holiday Beer Fest Saturday, November 20th, 2010 5:30pm to 9pm Fort Mason, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco

                                  

Beer List for Tasting Unibroue La Fin du Monde - Chambly Noire - Maudite - Don de Dieu - Éphémère Delirium Noel 2010 Gouden Carolus Noel 2010 Lucifer Belgian Golden Ale Straffe Hendrick Bruges Triple Amstel Light Draft Newcastle Draft English Ale Heineken Lt German Lager Dos XX Lager Mexican Dark Lager Celebrator Dopplebock Ayinger Brau-Weisse Rochefort Blue - Red Samuel Smith Winter Welcome Ale Westmalle Dubbel - Triple Lindemans Fruit Lambic Traquair Scotch Ale Orval Trappist Ale Greens Gluten-Free Okocim Polish Pilsner & Porter Golden Pheasant Slovakian Pilsner Baltika Russian Lager - Unfiltered Wheat Ninkasi(Oregon) Believer Double Red - Oatis Oatmeal Stout - Total Domination IPA Wandering Aengus Organic Heirloom Cider Abita Brewing Christmas Ale - Pecan Harvest - Jockamo IPA - Abbey Ale Alaskan Brewing Alaskan Amber - Alaskan White Ale - Alaskan Winter Ale Anchor Brewing Christmas Ale - Liberty Ale Anderson Valley Winter Solstice Anheuser-Busch Pumpkin Spice - Winter Bourbon Allagash Allagash Curieux (bourbon barrel aged) - Black Belgian Style Stout Asahi Super Dry - Brewmasters Select Asphall Dry English Cider Bards Tale Gluten Free Batemans English Ale Wells Banana Bread Beer Youngs Double Chocolate Stout Malheur Brut Belhaven Scottish Ale Big Sky Powder Hound - Big Sky IPA - Moose Drool - Trout Slayer Bison Brewing (Organic) Ginger Bread Ale- Chocolate Stout Black Diamond Winter Ale(Belgian Abbey Style) Blue Frog Big Dippa 3 IPA - McPhrog Scottish Boston Beer Winter Lager, Coastal Wheat, Camberry Lambic- Old Fezziwig - Holiday Porter Buffalo Bills Pumpkin Ale Chimay Grand Reserve Chang Premium Coastal Fog IPA Widmer Brrr Ale Kona Pipeine Porter Redhook Winterhook Deschutes Jubelale De Proef Belgian Ale Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA - Midas Touch - Palo Santo Marron - Festina Peche - Chicory Stout Castelian St Amand French Country Ale Brasserie Dubuisson  Scaldis Noel Brasserie Dupont Foret Organic Saison -  Saison Farmhouse Ale -  Bons Voeux X-Mas Ale Hopf Dunkle Weisse Elysian Bifrost Winter Ale Firestone Walker's Reserve Porter Nectar Ales Red Nectar - Nectar IPA Firehouse Belgian Double - Scotch Ale Fox Barrel Mulling Cider Full Sail Wassail Winter Ale -Session Black Lager - Brewmaster Reserve Vesuvius & Wreck the Halls Hornsby Hard Apple Cider BridgePort Hop Czar - Ebenezer Shiner Cheers Ale Gordon Biersch Winter Bock Grand Teton Brewing Black Cauldron Imperial Stout, Cellar Reserve - Double Vision Dopplebock, Howling Wolf Weizenbock Grand Teton Brewing XX Bitch Creek Double ESB/20th Anniversary - Pursuit of Hoppiness Double Red Ale Woodchuck Vermont Hard Cider Guinness Irish Stout He'brew Jewbelation Heineken Premium & Dark Lager Lagunitas Brown Shugga' Lost Coast Winterbraun - Downtown Brown - Tangerine Wheat Mad River John Barleycorn Barleywine Style Ale Magners Cider Hard Irish Cider Marin/Moylans White Christmas Winter Lager - Hoppy Holidaze Spiced Ale - Kilt Lifter Scotch Ale Napa Smith Bonfire Winter Ale - Lost Dog Oskar Blues Gordon Red Ale - Old Chub Scotch Ale Green Flash Imperial IPA Saint Landelin French Speciale Noel Triple Karmeliet Belgian Tripple North Coast Old Stock Ale - Old Rasputin Stout Meantime Coffee Porter Dues Brut Des Flanders St Feuillien Cuvee De Noel Paulaner Salvator Brouwerij Huyghe Fruli Strawberry Belgian Ale Fullers 1845 Ale - Vintage Ale Carlow Brewery O'Hara's Irish Stout Menage a Singe Black IPA Pyramid Snow Cap Winter Ale Rogue Ales Santa's Private Reserve Ale - Yellow Snow IPA - Juniper Pale Ale Santa Cruz Ale Works Oatmeal Stout - IPA - Barrel Aged Porter Schneider Aventinus Weizen Eisbock - Aventinus Doppelbock Shipyard Pugsley Signature XXXX IPA -  Imperial Sout Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale - Celebration Ale - Pale Ale Spaten Spaten Optimator - Double Bock - Munich Dunkel Franziskaner Franziskaner Dunkelweiss Speakeasy Black IPA - Double Daddy IPA Smithwicks Irish Ale Stone Double Bastard draft Tied House Holiday Ale Trumer Brauerei Premium Pils Boxer CruiserWeight Ale 21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon Wheat Blackthorn English Hard Cider Babycham Sparkling Hard Pear Cider Sir Perry's Hard Pear Cider Clausthaler German Classic - Amber Alcohol Free Krusovice Imperial Czech Pilsner Cerne Polish Lager Radeberger German Pilsener Tucher Heff Helles Hefeweizen Wyder's Hard Pear Cider Strongbow English Hard Cider Affligem Belgian Noel Moretti La Rosa Weihenstephan Hefeweissbier - Hefeweissbier Dunkel Mendocino Winter Imperial IPA John Henry 3 Lick Spiker Ale Karl Strauss Red Trolley - Tower 10 IPA - Amber Lager

Experience 150+ of the Greatest Holiday, Seasonal & Special Beers-Ciders from 100+ of the best Breweries in the World! BevMo! Holiday Beer Fest Saturday, November 20th, 2010 5:30pm to 9pm Fort Mason, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco http://www.fortmason.org/aboutus/visitor-information/directions Kick off your Holidays again with this very special San Francisco Craft Beer Tasting Event, just a snowballs' throw from the Golden Gate Bridge. Taste the greatest assortment of Holiday, Seasonal, Special Beers, Hard Ciders & Craft Sodas ever assembled under one festive roof.   "These special brews are produced once a year in very limited quantities" Holiday, Seasonal & Special Beers, (some are called Winter Warmers), date back thousands of years. Brewers today have continued the ritual with either very old recipes or new fangled ideas using spices, fruits, herbs, coffee & chocolate. These unique brews will bring a smile to your lips and a glow to your spirit.       Live Music CON BRIO -  Funk / Jazz / Soul http://www.myspace.com/thebandconbrio SENTINEL -  Indie / Pop / Alternative  http://www.myspace.com/sentinel JUGTOWN PIRATES -  Acoustic / Bluegrass / Psychedelic http://www.myspace.com/jugtownpirates       Delicious Food  (available for purchase) RoliRoti  http://www.roliroti.com/ Gourmet Rotisserie   Luganos  http://swissbistro.com/ Sausage Sandwiches 3 Pop Kettle Korn - Fresh Popped Popcorn       TICKETS   Buy Tickets Now  Tickets are now available for Purchase - $40 dollars - Pre Sale. *Ticket includes all of your beer tasting for the Event* *A limited number of tickets are available, so get your tickets early* (7 oz. cup provided by Beer Fest) All purchased on-line tickets will be available at "Will Call" the day of the event at Fort Mason - Herbst Pavilion Box office starting at Noon.       Ample parking is available at Fort Mason. Only people certifiably over the age of 21 will be admitted to the event. *No animals or pets allowed*   *This is a 501C Event. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Monterey Culinary Arts Foundation To Buy Tickets Now

 

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