Monkeynaut IPA
Lily Flagg Milk Stout
Brother Josephs Belgian Dubbel
Right To Brew – Charon Robust Porter
Unobtanium Old Ale
Stop Work 689 Kolsch

Having another Alabama brewery at the festival is great and we couldn’t be more excited!

There will be 6 exclusive beers poured directly from the truck which include Jolly Pumpkin’s Oro de Calabaza and Bam Biere, St. Bernardus Prior 8, Duchesse de Bourgogne, Leffe Brune, and the debut of Avondale Brewing Company.  One tap on the J.Clyde fire truck will be a rotation of four different Avondale beers including Spring Street Saison, Battlefield IPA, and two different Belgians.

You do not want to miss these incredible beers!

And don’t forget the 3rd week of Tornado Relief at J.Clyde.  This week’s cask is Good People’s Pale Ale dry-hopped with Amarillo and Cascade hops.  100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Birmingham Chapter of the American Red Cross.

I heard that Indiana Krunkles will be at Magic City Brewfest.  Let’s hope you get to meet him too.

Last year MCBF, with help from Yazoo Brewing Company, donated the money raised from the buckets to The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee to help with flood victims who were hurt by that area’s flooding.

This year, as everyone knows, mother nature hit closer to home with the tornadoes that swept through much of Alabama.  All money that is received in the penny buckets will be donated to the United Way of Central Alabama’s Tornado Relief Fund.

While MCBF is only required to charge a penny per pour, any money you donate in those buckets will go to the UWCA. Let’s help fellow Alabamians who aren’t as fortunate as us and can’t go to a brewfest this summer with a little extra.

Thanks!

Because there is a substitute, the Senate will have to concur with the change. This is a quick procedural vote and should not affect our timeline.

Check out the music page to hear their song “Everybody Says”.  Be sure to check out their facebook page as well.

With the help of our Senate sponsor, Bill Holtzclaw, and Alabama’s brewing community, we were able to prevent the House Committee on Economic Development and Tourism from supporting a proposed substitute for SB192 – a substitute which we believe would render SB192 an ineffective tool for brewery and brewpub reform in Alabama. We also began some realistic discussions with the wholesalers in Alabama, and on Wednesday Doug Bailey met us in Birmingham to discuss Anheuser-Busch and their role in all of this.

Bailey denied rallying opposition to SB192 with the wholesalers in Alabama as we originally reported. Despite our reports to the contrary, we accept his word that he and his company are neutral on both the Brewery Modernization Act and the Gourmet Bottle Bill.

Also, we believe we are prepared to move forward with SB192 with a substitute that we can all live with. It will not be everything we wanted, but it is definitely a workable solution and represents a significant improvement over the current restrictions. We understand their perspective much better now, and we trust they understand ours. After talking with many stakeholders directly, we expect to soon be prepared to move forward with a new substitute for SB192, and with the support of the wholesalers. Because of this, we are calling a ceasefire to the boycott.

Our decision to boycott has been controversial. We regret that some of the focus, especially outside of Alabama, was directed toward some great breweries that were caught in the middle. This was not our intention, and in hindsight it was an unfortunate, unintended consequence of our decision.