Events: Barbeque cook-off and beer festival Sunday in Pleasanton
By William Brand
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at 7:33 pm in Craft Beer, Festivals, Food and Beer, General.
Events. The weather is heating up east of the East Bay Hills, but one place to beat the heat this Sunday will be at the Alameda County Fair Grounds in Pleasanton. It’s the last day of a three-day, barbeque cook-off, featuring barbeque from some of the best chefs in America. And on Sunday, they’ve added craft beer to the mix.
Co-sponsored by 107.1 The Bone. There’s going to be beer from many craft brewers including, Santa Cruz Ale Works, Linden Street Brewing, Black Diamond, Firestone-Walker Brewing, El Toro Brewing, Blue Frog Grog, Anderson Valley Brewing, St. Stans Brewery, Trumer Piles, Deshutes Brewery.
There’s also non-stop live music, courtesy of The Bone.
Sunday, Aug. 17, noon to 6 p.m. The Bay Area Barbecue Cook-Off & Music Festival, Alameda County Fairgrounds, Pleasanton Tickets $25 in advance at: www.ticketweb.com. $30 at the gate. Tickets include barbeque and beer and music.
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August 14th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Jambalaya, music and Abita brews on tap at Hopmonk for those in the North Bay:
http://brewedforthought.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/keeping-it-southern/
Unfortunately I already have plans this weekend.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Very disappointed last year. Advertisement stated entry fee only and all tasting of bbq cook-off was part of fair. That was not the case. Thousands of people who drove over 60+ miles were forced to pay for each and every sample and that was false advertisement and very dissappointing. I swore i would never go back.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Hi Duncan…the only beer they had last year was, I believe, Miller;s. However,IU’m scheduled to talk to the PR folks arond 11 a.m. today. Will ask h er point blank, If what you say is true, it sucks. But I don’t think that;’s right this year.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Talkd to the BBQ folks. The beer last year was a different deal. This year, the $25 advane/$30 at the gate covers all the beer you can drink, plus admission to the fair grounds. BBQ is extra. The beer garden is on one site, the rib cook off stands are on the other . You pay for your barbeque. Expect to pay from $8 to $12 for ribs, less for sides.
I went last year, ignored the beer, it was all light lager. But the ribs were amazing. There are ribs and brisket and chicken prepared by chefs from all over the U.S. My only advice: If they say the hot sauce is hot, believe it. At one place it was like swallowing an inferno. But oh my, the ribs were so good and so was the brisket and so…well, you get the drift.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:25 am
We checked this out on Sunday, waited 30 minutes in line for the Brewfest to view a sign at the tix booth: $30 admission includes six 4 oz. tastings and for an additional $15 you can buy an additional six 4 oz. tastings. To us, this was an extreme rip-off of paying $45 of the equivalent of four 12 oz beers, so we decided not to buy tix and left. We’re curious, was the case inside the brewfest, or was it as Mr. Brand wrote “$30 at the gate covers all the beer you can drink”?
August 18th, 2008 at 9:36 am
God I hate deals like that. I only talked to the producer, not to the people who did the beer portion of the event. That’s a total rip. Sorry about that. You were wise to skip it. I’m gonna call the radio station that sponsored it and see what the deal was. Will post what I found out.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I was very dissapointed. I thought the cookoff was going to have alot of contestants.I counted 6 or 7 of them. I got a website from one to order some sauce. Besides the few contestants(they all had signs saying they were champions and we paid for everything), they had the usual vendors selling junk(at flea markets), ie; handbags, sunglasses, cheap jewelry, etc. The only tables(not many) to sit at were already taken under little shade(it was almost 100deg.) so my friend and I had to opt for the grass. The band was playing blues, but a little loud. After eating a pulled pork sadwich, we got bored and left. We arrived there about 130pm and left soon after we ate. To me that was a poor excuse for a cookoff. I will never go back.
September 8th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Hope the promoters get the message.