FOURTH ANNUAL
DECATUR ROOT BEER FESTIVAL
FRIDAY
OCTOBER 17th
5 to 7 p.m.
$7 in advance ($20 for a whole family!)
$8 at the door ($25 for a whole family)
Tickets go on sale October 4th!
We've moved this event to the Friday afternoon before the
Decatur Craft Beer Festival. The Decatur square simply isn't big enough to hold both events simultaneously!
Here's a rundown of this year's selections so far:
Root Beers
Boylan's Creamy Red Birch Beer
made with pure birch oils, vanilla, natural yucca extract
Capt'n Eli's Root Beer
made with anise, vanilla, wintergreen oil
Earp's Original Sarsaparilla
Hippo Jumbo Root Beer
made with wintergreen extract
Reading Draft Birch Beer
Reading Draft White Birch Beer
Virgil's Root Beer
made with anise, balsam oil, cinnamon, clove, licorice, molasses, nutmeg, oil of cassia, pimento berry oil, sweet birch extract, vanilla, wintergreen oil
(these guys take their root beer very, very seriously)
Make Your Own Root Beer
we supply the seltzer and the syrup, you put it together -- this was a big hit with kids last year
Just added (10/16/14)
Slice and Pint's Square Root
On Draft!
their spicy root beer with a little bit of a kick. Made with wintergreen, vanilla, fennel, cinnamon, star anise, clove, nutmeg, white and brown sugar.
Made locally at Slice & Pint in Emory Village.
Kind of Like a Root Beer
Moxie
made with gentian root extract
(the single most requested beverage year after year;
it was tough to find, but we've got it!)
Other Interesting Beverages
Avery Watermelon Soda
(seriously)
Cock 'n Bull Ginger Beer
Flying Cauldron Butterscotch Beer
made with vanilla, stevia rebaudiana leaf extract
Hippo Huckleberry Soda
made with huckleberry and elderberry extract
Each beverage is made with cane sugar with the exception of Avery Watermelon Soda (actually, I can't find the ingredients) and Cock 'n Bull Ginger Beer
Edibles
Pretzel necklaces
because you have to
Root Beer Cupcakes
mmmmmm
Root Beer Barrel Candies
you can take home a momento!
Non-Edibles
One 6-ounce commemorative cup
complete with this year's logo