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Beer Event: 12th Annual San Juan Brewfest (CO)

12th Annual San Juan Brewfest

CookManFood.com is teaming up with the United Way of Southwest Colorado as well as Durango Mountain Resort on the 12th annual San Juan Brewfest to help break last years records and continue to make this one of the premier events in Durango.

• When: Saturday September 11, 2010.
• Where: Downtown Durango, Main Ave between 12th and 13th Streets in front of Buckley Park.
• Time: Gates open at noon. and close at 6 p.m.
• Live music: Band lineup TBD
• Cost: $20 to enter

 Must be 21 to taste the beers. The $20 will get you a collectors edition beer tasting glass beer tasting for the 6 hours of the event. No Dogs allowed inside the event.

Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort hosts the San Juan Brewfest and it benefits United Way of Southwest Colorado.

Durango’s only real beer festival! Approximately 30 breweries from around the region will attend. A list of all breweries attending is posted below.  Southwest Colorado is quickly becoming the Napa Valley of beers. Come and meet these amazing brewers are and taste many of the best brews this region has to offer.

Come on down and taste beer from all over the country. These brewmasters will be coming from far and wide to show off their most popular beers as well as introduce you to some of their newest creations. There will be awards for several different categories and you could be a judge. If you have always wanted to be a beer judge please email me at tyoungblood@cookmanfood.com . We will presenting awards to the winners of the beer judging competition at 3:45pm. We also need everyone who attends to help us pick the winner of San Juan Brewfest’s People’s Choice award. This will be awarded to the brewery that gets the most votes from the attendees of the event.

The San Juan Brewfest celebrates our local and regional brewers and raises money for United Way of Southwest Colorado

Proceeds to benefit the United Way of Southwest Colorado.

Here is the list of Breweries that attended in 2009:

• Carver Brewing Company
• Durango Brewing Company
• Ska Brewing Company
• Steamworks Brewing Company
• Alaskan Brewing Company
• Big Sky Brewing Company
• Blue Moon Brewing Company
• Boulder Beer Company
• Leinenkugel Brewing Company
• Palisade Brewery
• Silverton Brewery
• New Belgium Brewing
• Moab Brewing
• Breckenridge Brewery
• Three Rivers Brewery
• Oskar Blues Brewery
• Colorado Boy Brewing
• Colorado Native Brewing
• Left Hand Brewing
• Stone Brewery
• Avery Brewing
• Pagosa Brewery
• Glenwood Canyon
• Gunnison Brewery
• Smugglers BrewPub
• Trinity
• Back Country Brewing
• San Luis Valley
• Dillon Dam
• Rockslide

More breweries to attend this year, check back for an updated list.