Hopwired Festival, presented by Espressotec and The World Famous CFOX, is returning February 23, 2019 to the Croatian Cultural Centre in Vancouver. “The festival blended people’s favourite past times into one experience and received a ton of attention through from Vancouver, to North Carolina, and Auckland.” says Mike Willis, of West Craft. Topics with the tasting panels include: Funk Yeah! Panel Chat on Cultured Beer with Coffee Additions, Foeder for Thought, Hoppy Together: Fruity Coffee in Beer, Citra Ass Down!, Crush this Coffee! and many more.
West Craft, the organizer behind Hopwired Festival, is expanding the festival with an all-inclusive drink commitment with tickets (no tokens!), increased seating, increased drink options and food options with a curated palate cleanser bar and double the amount of their popular on-stage tasting panels, hosted by Cascadian Beer Podcast and Vancouver Coffee Snob, which were very well received from guests at the 2018 event.
Festivities will kick off at 1:00PM with a welcome beer, which is a one-time-produced Prototype Coffee-infused-barleywine from Port Moody’s Twin Sails Brewing, which goes to support awareness of Good Night Out Vancouver, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to raising awareness about sexual harassment and assault on nights out.
After entry, you are invited to taste collaboration beers and coffees from over 55 craft breweries and coffee roasters, sip on delicious espresso poured from the amazing Espressotec team, and refresh your palate with the curated palate cleanser bar, which will feature a selection of rare and refreshing beers, and water served from Element H20.
In addition to the abundance of new and tasty beverages, Hopwired will be offering snacks from Cartem’s Donuts and DownLow Chicken, as well as hosting on-stage tasting panels which feature the likes (and beverages) of Wild Ambition Brewing, Temporal Artisan Ales, Ile Sauvage Brewing Company, Monogram Coffee, Transcend Coffee, O.T. Brewing, Blind Enthusiasm Brewing, and many more breweries and coffee roasters.
Finally, the Vancouver Coffee Snob and Cascadian Beer Podcast grace the guests with their presence, again, at the end of the day to hand-out People’s Choice Awards for best beer, best espresso, best coldbrew, and best hot coffee.
For more information about Hopwired Festival or to purchase tickets for the festival, please visit: www.hopwiredfest.com
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