{"id":2610,"date":"2010-05-25T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2010-05-16T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T16:21:56","slug":"beer-connoisseur-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/beer-connoisseur-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Annual Beer Connoisseur Festival &#8211; June 12, 2010\u200f (Atlanta-GA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/forblog\/TheBeerConnoisseurFest.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Beer Connoisseur Festival &#8211; 150+ World Class Beers<\/strong><br \/> From more then 40 Craft Breweries<br \/> Plus live music, great food and summer fun<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Saturday June 12th, 2010<br \/> <strong>Time:<\/strong> 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM<br \/> <strong>Where:<\/strong> The Prado &#8211; 5600 Roswell Road, Atlanta, GA, 30342<br \/> <strong>Cost:<\/strong> $35 advance &#8211; $40 at the door<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beer Lovers Unite!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Celebrate the Start of Summer at the  First-Annual Beer Connoisseur Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark your calendars craft beer fans. A very  special extravaganza of world-class brews is coming to Atlanta on June  12th, 2010. Hosted by The Beer Connoisseur Magazine, Taco Mac, 5  Seasons Brewing Company and restaurants of the The Prado enclave in  north Atlanta, the first-ever Beer Connoisseur Festival (a.k.a. Pints at  The Prado) will kick-off summer with a celebration of great American  beer.<\/p>\n<p>A selection of 150-plus brews hand picked from more than 40  world-class breweries \u2013 including big names like <strong>Allagash<\/strong>,<strong> Avery<\/strong>, <strong>Bell\u2019s<\/strong>, <strong>Chimay<\/strong>, <strong>Dogfish Head<\/strong>, <strong>Rogue<\/strong>,  <strong>Stone<\/strong> and <strong>Weihenstephan<\/strong>, as well as local favorites like <strong>SweetWater<\/strong>,  <strong>Terrapin<\/strong> and <strong>Atlanta Brewing Company<\/strong> \u2013 will be poured,  and there will be plenty of rare offerings available at the landmark  event.<\/p>\n<p>The festival, which will be covered in the magazine\u2019s fall  issue, doesn\u2019t begin and end with just great beer, though. There will be  live music, lots of great food, access to TV&#8217;s inside Taco Mac and 5  Seasons Brewing to catch all the FIFA World Cup action and domestic beer  and liquor drinks will be sold at an additional charge.<\/p>\n<p>So don\u2019t wait until the last minute \u2013 a limited number of tickets are on  sale now, and they won\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.beerconnoisseurfestival.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.beerconnoisseurfestival.com\/\">http:\/\/www.beerconnoisseurfestival.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beer Connoisseur Festival &#8211; 150+ World Class Beers From more then 40 Craft Breweries Plus live music, great food and summer fun When: Saturday June 12th, 2010 Time: 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM Where: The Prado &#8211; 5600 Roswell Road, Atlanta, GA, 30342 Cost: $35 advance &#8211; $40 at the door Beer Lovers Unite! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[278,781,287],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TheBeerConnoisseurFest.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}