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The Drinking & Writing Festival

The Drinking & Writing Theater @ Haymarket
Chicago, IL

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The Drinking & Writing Festival

First 100 ticket buyers get a rare taste of Founders KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout)!

The 7th Annual Drinking & Writing Festival celebrates the Haymarket Riot's 125th Anniversary. How fitting since the new Drinking & Writing Theater is situated in the new Haymarket Pub & Brewery right near the location of the Haymarket Riot.

Join us Saturday, May 7, 2011 from ...12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Haymarket Pub & Brewery for discussions including the Haymarket Riot by Northwestern Professor Bill Savage, "Save Illinois Beer" by Haymarket Pub & Brewery Brewmaster and Co-founder Pete Crowley. Haymarket Books will host a booth with a selection of their books. This year's coveted Drinking & Writing Award for Outstanding Achievement in Drinking & Writing goes to Studs Terkel.

And then there is the BEER
Amazing homebrewed beer by HOPS! (Homebrewers' Pride of the Southside Homebrew Club).

AND
Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Three Floyds and Founders Tasting featuring over 20 beers:
10 of Haymarket Pub & Brewery's beers including but not limited too
Mother Jones Dubbel
Mathias Imperial I.P.A.
Comeback & Guzzle Spiced Belgian Dark Strong Ale

Founders:
Nemesis 2010
Double Trouble
Imperial Stout
Curmudgeon
KBS (first 100 ticket buyers)
and more!

Three Floyds:
Dreadnaught
Black Sun Stout
Rabid Rabbit
Arctic Panzer Wolf
Topless Whytch Baltic Porter

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