{"id":248,"date":"2007-08-13T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/wordpress\/?p=248"},"modified":"2008-03-15T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T21:46:55","slug":"lowell-ribs-and-brew-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/lowell-ribs-and-brew-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowell Ribs and Brew Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/seanpost.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The City of Lowell along with the New England Barbecue Society is gearing up for 2007 Rib&#8217;n Brews Festival &#8211; are YOU ready?!? The City kicks off this two day Kansas City-style barbecue competition on Friday, September 7th at 6:00pm on the Tsongas Arena grounds.<\/p>\n<p>This event also includes a microbrew challenge, food sampling and sale, and live entertainment from some of Boston&#8217;s top bands. Admission is $5 (children under 12 are admitted free).<\/p>\n<p>Patrons can watch the barbecue competition unfold as chefs baste, season and grill their way to the State title on every type of barbecue equipment imaginable including huge trailer-mounted barbecue pits, kettle grills and water smokers. The winners of the contest will receive a proclamation from the Massachusetts Governor as the State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Barbecue Cooker as well as invitations to two national competitions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><br \/>\nFriday, September 7th, 6:00pm-12:00am<br \/>\nSaturday, September 8th, 12:00pm -12:00am<br \/>\nSunday, September 9th, 12:00pm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 6:00pm. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many microbreweries will participate in this event and will be announced soon. The cost for sampling beers in the Microbrew Challenge is $20.00. Participants will receive a complimentary glass, twelve 4oz. samplers and a ballot sheet to vote for their favorite beer\/brewery. Participants must be 21 years or older.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Microbreweries<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Concord Ale * Cape Ann Brewing Co. * Old Burnside Brewing Co.<br \/>\n* Harpoon Brewery * Ipswich Ale * Longtrail Ale<br \/>\n* Wachusett Brewery * Smuttynose Brewery * Magic Hat Brewery<br \/>\n* Sierra Nevada Brewery * Shipyard Brewery * Diagio Imports (Guiness)<br \/>\n* The Tap Brewery * Buzzards Bay Brewery * Stella Artois Brewery<br \/>\n* Global Brewery * Anheuser Busch (Microbrew Division)<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.lowellma.gov\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.lowellma.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.lowellma.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.lowellma.gov\/eventitems\/20070624-rib-brews-fest');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.lowellma.gov\/eventitems\/20070624-rib-brews-fest\">http:\/\/www.lowellma.gov\/eventitems\/20070624-rib-brews-fest <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Lowell along with the New England Barbecue Society is gearing up for 2007 Rib&#8217;n Brews Festival &#8211; are YOU ready?!? The City kicks off this two day Kansas City-style barbecue competition on Friday, September 7th at 6:00pm on the Tsongas Arena grounds. This event also includes a microbrew challenge, food sampling and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,80,32,107,76,113,100,25,121,69],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/seanpost94.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}