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US Beer Festivals

• The Great American Beer Festival held in Denver, Colorado, started in 1982 and in 2008 had more than 46,000 people attend, with judges selecting medal winners from 2,961 beers entered by 477 breweries.
• Another large event in the US is Oktoberfest Zinzinnati, in Cincinnati, Ohio; over 500,000 people attend this annual festival each year.
• The pseudo-Bavarian village of Leavenworth, Washington in the US holds Oktoberfest during the first two weeks in October yearly.
• The largest and longest running beer festival in New York City is Brewtopia: The Great World Beer Festival.
• The Oregon Brewers Festival attracts more than 60,000 each July to Portland.
• Philly Beer Week is a 10-day series of beer events starting on the first weekend in June in Philadelphia as a celebration of America's Best Beer-Drinking City. The Hammer of glory was used to tap the ceremonial first keg at Opening Tap on March 6, 2009.
• The Great International Beer Festival is held in Providence, Rhode Island twice annually.
• The World Beer Festival has four locations through the southeastern U.S. Durham, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, and Richmond, Virginia. The festival features 250+ beers, educational seminars, local cuisine, music, and entertainment. Partial proceeds from the festival go to locally selected charities. The World Beer Festival is put on by All About Beer Magazine.
• The KC Beerfest, located in Kansas City, Missouri, provides one of the Midwest's newest opportunities to try the wares of hundreds of different craft brewers from all over the world.
• The Cincinnati Beer Fest takes place every September on Fountain Square; Cincinnati's premiere public space in the heart of downtown. Cincinnati Also hosts Cincinnati Winter Beer Fest at the Duke Energy Convention Center every year in January or February.
• The NY Brewfest takes place annually in June on the waterfront in Manhattan. In 2010, their 4th year, the festival moved to Governors Island, with over 100 breweries in attendance.
• The Seattle International Beer Festival is a beer festival held annually in Seattle, Washington during the month of July. The festival offers visitors a selection of 100-150 beers from some twenty countries around the world.
• The Great Arizona Beer Festival is the state's longest-running beer festival. Held in Tempe, Arizona since 1990 it features 50 breweries offering more than 200 varieties of frosty suds. The event benefits and is run by Sun Sounds of Arizona, a non-profit providing reading services to the blind. The organization also runs beer festivals in Tucson and Flagstaff.
• Epic Beer Festivals began in 2012 and hosts multiple large scale beer festivals around the United States in major cites such as Denver, Philadelphia and San Diego. www.epicbeerfestival.com