2013 Breweries

Below is the partial list of breweries that we'll have. There are more to come. Check back for updates or you can subscribe to our email list or facebook at the bottom of this page.

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VIB Beers | General Admission Beers | Mead & Cider | Up and Coming | Homebrew

2013 VIB Beers

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Brewery	Beer	Style	Rate Beer Score
21st Amendment Brewery	Hell or High Watermelon	Wheat
Ballast Point	Sculpin	American IPA	98
Ballast Point	Calico	Amber Ale
Boulevard	The Sixth Glass	Quadrupel	92
Boulevard	Tank 7	Farmhouse Ale	93
Brasserie de l'Abbaye du Val Dieu	Val Dieu Grand Cru	Quadrupel	98
Brew Dog	Tactical Nuclear Penguin (Lottery)	Imperial Stout
Brooklyn Brewing	Black Chocolate Stout	Russian Imperial Stout	93
Brouwerij St Bernardus	St Bernardus Abt 12	Quadrupel	100
Cigar City	Big Sound Scotch Ale	Scotch Ale	99
Cigar City	Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout	Russian Imperial Stout	100
Deschutes Brewery	Red Chair	Northwest pale Ale	92
Firestone Walker	Velvet Merlin	Oatmeal Stout	98
Firestone Walker	Wookey Jack	American Black Ale	95
Firestone Walker	Double Jack	Imperial IPA	97
Founders	KBS	Bourbon Barrel Russian Imperial Stout	100
Fulton Beer	Worthy Adversary	Russian Imperial Stout	93
Goose Island	Big John	Imperial Stout	91
Great River Brewers	Redband	Stout with Coffee Added	92
Half Acre	Akari Shogun	American Pale Wheat Ale	90
Half Acre	Daisy Cutter	American Pale Ale	94
Kaiser Brau	Veldensteiner Zwick'l	Unfiltered Keller Beer
Lakefront Brewery/Leinies collaboration	Checkpoint Charlie Berliner Weisse	Berliner Weisse (himbeer and waldmeister syrup available)
Maui Brewing	Coconut porter	American Porter	97
Odell Brewing Co.	Myrcenary	Double IPA	96
Olvalde Brewing	The Auroch's Horn	Belgian Strong Pale Ale	91
Pipeworks	Glaucus	Belgian IPA	91
Pipeworks	End of Days	Milk/Sweet Stout with spices	98
Port Brewing	Shark Attack	Imperial Red Ale	98
Port Brewing	Hot Rocks	Dark Stein Lager	93
Revolution Brewing	Repo Man	Rye	90
Revolution Brewing	Anti Hero	American IPA	92
Revolution Brewing	Eugene	American Porter	90
Rochefort	Trappistes Rochefort 10	Quadrupel	100
Russian River	Sanctification	American Wild Ale	100
Russian River	Pliny the Elder	American Double IPA	100
Saison Dupont	Cuvee Dry Hopping 2013	Saison	97
Sam Adams	10th Anniversary Utopias (Lottery)	American Strong Ale	100
Schneider	Adventinus Vintage 2005	Weizenbock	96
Ska Brewing	Modus Hoperandi	American IPA	92
Stone Brewing	Espresso Imperial Russian Stout	Russian Imperial Stout	96
Surly Brewing	Abrasive Ale	American Double IPA	100
Surly Brewing	Overrated	West Coast IPA	92
Surly Brewing	Furious	American IPA	97
Timmermans	Blanche-Lambic	Wit Lambic
Wells and Young	Courage Imperial Russian Stout	Russian Imperial Stout	95

Not bad if we do say so ourselves!

General Admission Beers

The breweries listed for general admission are only those who will have staff attending. We'll be posting the full list around May 20.

Special Tappings (so far)

Lakefront - Kinnickinnic Whiskey Barrel aged Chad
Lakefront - Black Friday - never made it out of the brewery
Goose Island - Bourbon County Stout
Delafield Brewhaus - Whiskey Barrel Aged Okauchee Scotchie
Tallgrass - Area 51 Bourbon Barrel Stout
Black Husky - Sparkly Eyes
3 Floyd's - Zombie Dust
Potosi - St Thomas Belgian Abbey
Ale Asylum - Blood Red Ale
Vintage Brewing - Cask conditioned wit bier with grains of paradise and toasted coconut
Rockbottom - Cask Conditioned IPA Pin
Mobcraft - Rosewater Double IPA on cask, with Rose petals
St Francis Brewery - Pride Special Reserve firkin (Kolsch with ginger and blueberry)

Three Sheeps Brewing

Ale Asylum

Kentucky Ale

Black Husky Brewing Co.

Capital Brewing

Central Waters Brewing Company

Leinenkugels' Brewery

Miller Valley Brewery (MillerCoors TechngCenter)
TBA (We find out the day of the festival so it's always a nice surprise)

Milwaukee Brewing Co.

Potosi Brewing Company

Public Craft Brewing Co.

Rock Bottom

Rustic Road Brewing Co.

Stevens Point Brewing

Stonefly Brewing

Sweet Mullets Brewpub

Tallgrass Brewing Company

Tenth and Blake Beer Company

Toppling Goliath Brewing Company

Tyranena Brewing Co

Vintage Brewing

Meadfest

We'll have a special area for meads because we love them as much as beer. What's mead? It's an ancient drink that's basically honey wine but there are many variations. Sweet, dry, spiced, with grapes or other fruit, you name it! We'll also have ciders here.

Are you from a meadery and interested in attending? Contact us

2013 Meads and Ciders

AeppelTreow Cider

B Nektar (Michigan)

Bos Meadery

Celestial Meads

Cider Boys

Cider House of Wisconsin

Crispin Cider

Grandpa Fro's Invention Farm & country Winery Meadery

Honey Jack Meadery

Moonlight Meadery

Jaros Polish Meads (Stawski Distributing Co.)

Pacific Breach

White Winter

Up and Coming

These are prospective brewers and mead makers trying to make the leap from homebrewer to commercial. They are at various stages in the process from just getting started to fully funded and planning the brewery. Check them out, give them encouragement, and find out how they do it.

Brenner Brewing Company

Royal Court Meadery

Rushford Meadery & Winery

Mill Street Brewhaus

MobCraft Brewing Co.

2013 Homebrew Area

We can now legally have homebrew at the festival! We have a separate area for it on the patio. Several homebrew clubs will be there to talk about brewing your own and offering samples.

Are you from a homebrew club and interested in attending? Contact us

Barleys Angels MKE

Beer Barons of Milwaukee

Belle City Brewers

Kenosha Bidel Society

NorthShore Brew Club

Trubmeisters

Chicago Home Brewers Group

Pour Boys, Addison, IL

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