South Okanagan breweries are anxiously getting ready for the return of Penticton Beer Week.
The annual celebration of the city’s thriving craft beer week will take place from Friday, Sept. 26, until Sunday, Oct. 4.
All seven local breweries are participating and they’ve all come together to create Penticton Beer Week’s Weird Beer Brewery Crawl.
Each establishment has created a special “weird beer” just for the occasion and the crawl aspect is quite straightforward.
Start at one of the breweries and grab your official Weird Beer Passport, then move on to the other six and try the bizarre creation from those spots as well, collecting stamps along the way.
Anyone who makes it to all seven breweries, tries all seven weird beers and fills their passport with all seven stamps will score a limited-edition Weird Beer Crawl t-shirt.
“Get ready to sip, stamp and strut your way through the weirdest beer crawl Penticton has ever seen," says Alexis Esseltine from Tin Whistle Brewing. “Penticton Beer Week’s Weird Beer Brewery Crawl is a celebration of the bold, the bizarre and the brilliantly brewed.”
Here are the weird beers from each brewery that will be on the menu during Penticton Beer Week:
Abandoned Rail Brewing – Midnight Jam Sesh
Fresh hop raspberry black IPA that hits all the right notes.
Barley Mill Brew Pub – Peach of My Nightmares
A chocolate dark ale with a juicy peach twist. Sweet dreams? Not likely.
Cannery Brewing – We Killed 400 Carrots in the Making
A hoppy pale ale powered by fresh carrot and pineapple juice. Weirdly refreshing.
Highway 97 Brewing – We’ve Gone Bananas
A chocolate-dipped banana and cream porter — dessert and beer walk into a bar.
Neighbourhood Brewing – Bamberg Smoked International Lager
A bold smoked lager that tastes like a backyard BBQ packed into a pint.
Tin Whistle Brewing – Birra di Crosta
Pizza crust Italian amber ale — yes, you read that right. Pizza. In a beer.
Yellow Dog Brewing – Christmas in September
A Nanaimo Bar Brown Ale bringing holiday cheer to fall — dessert lovers, rejoice.
