Ratebeer winter gathering kickoff thread

Tampa

Originally posted by Terminus
My vote for this year is St Louis-the town is going through a massive beer revolution. Go figure, it started to happen right after i left there in 2009! even though its a little more north, the weather isnt all that cold.

Runner up cities:

Dallas/Ft Worth
Tampa

I could help with this. Have had some explosions of breweries within the last few months with even more to come. Just to name a few:

Deep Ellum
Peticolas
Revolver Brewing
4 Corners (should be open by then)
Martin House

I bet we could through a gooden in North Tejas!

Did Texas last year, though?

Las Vegas in February?



Not fucken bad.

Originally posted by drowland
Did Texas last year, though?

Sure did...did you have a question?

Originally posted by cquiroga
Las Vegas in February?



Not fucken bad.

I was also thinking Vegas or maybe New Orleans, but is there really enough craft beer to warrant a gathering in either of those places?

STL, Grand Rapids, and Anchorage all seem like they would offer escalating degrees of cold for a WINTER gathering.

Since Texas hosted last year that seems unfair. I could see rotating back to Florida since they started the winter gatherings, but what would people think about Atlanta or maybe Sante Fe/Albuquerque?

Is there anyone there that would be willing to put a bid together and organize it for either of those places? In the end, that’s really what it comes down to for any of the locations.

Iowa City. Plenty enough Coronas here for everybody.

Originally posted by Beerman6686

Originally posted by Unclerudy
I vote grand rapids, at the same time as the Michigan winter beer festival.

+1

+2

I would think the point ot a Winter gathering is to embrace the cold, not run from it, Man up!

How about Portland?