A Look Inside The Woodlands Craft Beer & Music Festival

The inaugural Woodlands Craft Beer & Music Festival was a hit! Myself as well as two other Woodlands Journal media professionals Forse Media and Elliott Soeder, had the opportunity to be there both Friday and Saturday to get the full feel of what the festival had to offer. The event had numerous sponsors and presenters with Mercedes-Benz of The Woodlands being the headlining presenter of the event.

Ted Widen and Ken Monro of Chicago Scene Magazine – Nightlife, Dining, Shopping, Events and Entertainment Guide, partnered up with Conroe’s very own Scott Levantino owner of both Burgerfresh locations Conroe and Montgomery to bring this event to The Woodlands.

We were able to talk with and get insight from a lot of people and get some phenomenal pictures and video footage of the event. If you see yourself in any of the pictures or videos in the article please feel free to tag yourself in them on our Woodlands Journal Facebook Page and share it with your friends.

The Festival had many breweries and beer styles to choose from giving the crowd a broad selection of tastes to please their palate. Also on site was Griffin Meadery of Willis, TX and Virtue Coffee of Tomball, TX. We were able to catch up with Carson Hammett of Virtue Coffee who let us try the vanilla infused blend he had on tap, and it was nothing short of amazing! You can find Virtue Coffee in some of your favorite Craft Beer pubs and restaurants including Hop Scholar Ale House and Local Pour.

We even caught up with Discovery’s “Naked and Afraid” star Alana Barfield who was representing Texas Inked Magazine.

Breweries that had booths set up were: Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Real Ale Brewing Company, Southern Star Brewing Co. Schofferhofer, Alaskan Brewing Company,  B-52 Brewing Co., Brooklyn Brewery, Dogfish Head, Founders Brewing Company, Harpoon Brewery, Oskar Blues Brewery, Live Oak Brewing Company, Abita Beer, Ballast Point, Deschutes Brewery, Shiner Brewery, New Belgium Brewing, Cycler’s Brewing, Firestone Walker Brewing Company, Goose Island Beer Company, Kona Brewing Company, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, 11 Below Brewing Company, Resignation Brewery, 8th Wonder Brewery

Many venues and vendors also showed up to support and sponsor the event including: The Refuge Bar & Bistro, Crisp Woodlands, IFly – Houston/TheWoodlands, Crave Cupcakes, Hop Scholar Ale House, Pincho’z, Bits & Bobs, Crescent Moon Wine Bar, Texas Inked Magazine, The Old West Soda Co., Gelazzi, Feast of Artisans, Eco-Topia LLC, Houston Liederkranz,

Here is a line up of the bands and dates they played in case you saw a band you really liked and can’t remember who it was, or missed the event and want to know who played:

Day 1: Friday June 26

• The Dead Kings
• Potbelly
• Second Lovers
• Catch Fever

Day 2: Saturday June 27

• Dani Mac
• Espantapajaros
• Carmeci
• Another Run
• Hotmagandhi
• Rainchild
• Deep Ella
• Last Place You Look
• Mango Punch

The Woodlands Craft Beer & Music Festival is a production of Monro Enterprises.

If you are interested in more information about the next Woodlands Craft Beer & Music Festival or other productions of Monro Enterprises and Chicago Scene Magazine you can contact them here.

info@woodlandscraftbeerfestival.com

• Chicago Scene
• 820 N. Orleans, Suite 219
• Chicago, IL 60610

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