Events Scheduled Across Lexington May 13-19
With the craft beer culture on the rise, the first ever Lexington Craft Beer Week is being organized by LexBeerScene (www.lexbeerscene.com), a new web site focusing on Lexington’s craft beer brewers and bars as well as the local food truck scene. Throughout the week of May 13-19, events will be held across the city that highlight craft brewing in Lexington, as well as state and nationwide.
“I think Lexington Craft Beer Week will be a way to celebrate what Lexington’s beer community has to offer to the city and the growing nationwide craft beer movement,” said LexBeerScene.com head Chris Vandergrift. “It will also be a great opportunity to introduce people who want to support the local beer scene but don’t know where to begin to breweries like Country Boy and West Sixth and bars like The Beer Trappe and Drake’s.”
Included in the Craft Beer Week events are the yearly Kentucky Ale Pro-Am Brewoff, a local beer and food pairing at the Village Idiot, Breakfast, Coffee, & Coffee Beers All Day at Country Boy Brewing, Cooking with Local Beer with the Fork in the Road food truck, meetings of the West Sixth Running Club & Yoga Club, and a beer and food pairing host by Liquor Barn featuring Schlafly Brewing from St. Louis. A full list of events can be found by going to http://www.lexbeerscene.com/LCBW.php
On top of all the special events, Lexington’s own Country Boy Brewing and West Sixth Brewing have made their first ever collaboration beer, called Country Western. The beer is a hoppy pale ale that has been moderately hopped and dry hopped with Noble hops from Germany. This will cause the beer to stand apart from a traditional, more citrus or pine flavored American pale ale.
“Since day 1, we have been amazed by the support for the craft beer movement in Lexington. It’s exciting to collaborate on a beer that will celebrate the movement that opened both of our doors.” said Country Boy founder and brewer Evan Coppage in a release announcing the creation of the beer.
Also in the release, West Sixth founder Brady Barlow said, “Brewing a beer together is not only a great way to show just how tight-knit the craft beer community is here in Lexington, but also to celebrate a great event like craft beer week.”
Lexington Craft Beer Week is made possible in part by the sponsorships of Smiley Pete Publishing, West 6th Brewing, Drake’s, and Kentucky Ale.
