Do you like drinking beer? Do you like seeing your favorite breweries collaborate for a brewfest? Do you like pro wrestling?

….and if the answer is even yes to one of those three – then Brewsgiving is the event for you, and they are going to open a can – of beer – and deliver one hell yea of a brewfest for you.

November 18th, 2023 in Pottsville Pennsylvania will be the returning Schuylkill County Brewfest – also known as Brewsgiving. With twenty breweries teaming up into ten tag teams to collaborate and hope to win the Brewsgiving Tag Titles.

Finally, the Brewsgiving Beer Festival has come back to Pottsville, PA! Use promo code COLLAB to save in tickets!

Saturday, November 18th, get ready to electrify your senses with PRO WRESTLING, CRAFT BEER, and the TAG TEAM COLLABORATION TITLES up for grabs!

If you smell what The Rock is brewing, it’s all about good beer, good vibes, and a whole lot of fun! #BrewsgivingBeerFest#TheRock#TagTeamTitles

Schuylkill County Brew Fest Facebook Post

Brewsgiving Details

The Schuylkill County Brew Fest is a one of a kind brewfest that comes around every year in November. Known as Brewsgiving as its just before Thanksgiving and brings breweries together that wouldn’t normally be collaborating on beers; this event is a great time for everyone – guests, breweries, and pro wrestling fans. Its also one of the few brewfests that will have live pro wrestling at its event.

Each year the Brewsgiving Tag Titles are on the line as breweries team up and fight to see who will be crowned the new Brewsgiving Tag Team Champions. You get to help make that decision when you attend Brewsgiving.

This year, on November 18th, 2023; in Pottsville PA, twenty breweries are getting together in teams of two, to battle it out to see who will be crowned.

From the All Events Page:

Brewsgiving Beer Festival!

Brewsgiving Collab Beer Festival returns to The Humane in 2023! Who, if anyone can dethrone our reigning champions?

What to expect? 20 of some of the best breweries paired up into 10 teams competing for the Brewsgiving Tag Team Championships! This is a smaller, more LIMITED event compared to Skook Brew Fest. We are only selling 250 tickets max!

TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST AT NOON!

LIMITED “Elite Hour” 1-2PM (less than 50 tickets available)
General Admission 2-530pm

live entertainment
pro wrestling
beer, wine, spirits, food and craft vendors!

BREWERY TEAMS

*Current Champions*
Rusty Rail
Seven Sirens

Robin Hood
Fluffy Bunny

Prototype
Wallenpaupack

Pour Man’s
Truth

Zerorday
Noble Stein

Pilger Ruh
Mystic Ways

Michaux
Brothers Kershner

Oakbrook
Stampede

Chatty Monks
Schaylor

Aldus
Fetish*

But there’s more! The top 3 homebrewers from the Skook Fest will be pouring beers too!
Eight Legged
Mission Day
Ramble On

Brewsgiving Beer Festival! – All Events

Tickets

You can purchase tickets for Brewsgiving 2023 here: Big Ticket Events – Brewsgiving 2023. Cost is 45$ for general admission and 60$ for VIP. General Admission is limited to 500 tickets and VIP is limited to 50 tickets.

If you check out the various Facebook pages (Schuylkill County Brewfest, Brewsgiving, Pilger Ruh Brewing, and other participating breweries) you will find discount codes to use when purchasing tickets.

The Schuylkill County Brew Fest proudly presents Brewsgiving: Festival of Friends.

Come out and enjoy a brand new one of a kind beer festival!

LIMITED tickets $45 (under 500 will be sold)

VERY LIMITED VIP tickets $60, 50 people, an hour early.

Tickets go on sale September 1st.

Tickets include glassware and unlimited samples from the breweries.

For this festival the Tag Team Championship Belts!

Keep up to date with us here or on Facebook!

Interested in being a Brewery, Sponsor, or Vendor? Email us at puffspromotions4@gmail.com or counsdaveent@gmail.com

Sponsored by Cousin Dave Entertainment and Pilger Ruh Brewing.

Big Ticket Events – Brewsgiving 2023

Participating Breweries

There is twenty breweries vying for the Brewsgiving Tag Titles. They are set up in tag teams, and worked to collaborate together on the perfect beer to win this year’s Brewsgiving. Here is the full line up of participating breweries and their tag teams:

The Tag Teams

The Tag Teams are:

• Aldus Brewing and Fetish Brewing
• Robin Hood Brewing and Fluffy Bunny Brewing
• Chatty Monks Brewing and Schaylor Brewing
• Oakbrook Brewing and Stampede Barbecue
• Michaux Brewing Company and Brothers Kershner Brewing
• Pilger Ruh Brewing and Mystic Ways Brewing
• Noble Stein Brewing and ZeroDay Brewing
• Pour Man’s Brewing and Truth Brewing
• Prototype Brewery and Wallenpaupack Brewing

And the returning, reigning, Tag Team Champions: Rusty Rail Brewing Company and Seven Sirens Brewing Company.

For More Information

For more information, you can visit these sites:

• Big Event Tickets – Purchase Tickets Here
• All Events – Brewsgiving 2023
• Schuylkill County Brew Fest
• Pilger Ruh Brewing

Our Other Articles

Looking for more articles here on The Beer Thrillers, check out these involving the guys from Pilger Ruh:

• Pilger Ruh Brewing Expanding to Gettysburg
• Brewers and the Industry Look Into 2023 (Tyler Budwash) (Pilger Ruh Brewing, Robin Hood Brewing, etc.)
• Brewer Interview: Tyler Budwash (Pilger Ruh Brewing)
• Pilger Ruh Brewing Needs Your Help

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• Truth Beer Company Grand Opening – September 3rd
• Lancaster Craft Beerfest Postponed Again
• Ephrata Brewfest (June 25th, 2022)
• Prototype Brewery Invitational
• Cushwa Brewery’s 5th Anniversary Celebration
• Walk to End ALZ at Lost in the Wilds Brewing – September 28th, 2023
• Brewfest for MS
• Raise Your Glass at the Mount Hope Brewfest: A Craft Beer Extravaganza
• Brewfests with Anxiety

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Many of you have probably heard of the ‘All Together’ project, started by Other Half Brewing Co. As soon as I heard about it, I had to immediately find the first brewery in my area to do it and get one; that first one in my immediate area turned out to be Ever Grain Brewing Co. Unfortunately I missed out on the 4pk of it, but I did get in time for a crowler (or two) of it, and I was informed that the crowler sales would go towards the project, just as the 4pk sales did.

I will be posting links to several other sites and sources about this here in this beer review / article, and I highly recommend you checking them out, and I also highly recommend checking out whatever ways you can have of donating.

Here is a direct bit from the Other Half Brewing Co.’s website on their official beer release version of theirs:

A world wide collaboration hosted by Other Half, Stout Collective and Craftpeak to support the enormous amount of hospitality workers laid off during this difficult time. We are donating 100% of our proceeds to the Restaurant Workers Community Foundation. We brewed this recipe with 2-row, oats and carapils and then hopped it with a beautiful blend of our hand selected Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe and Cascade. We intentionally kept the recipe simple so that every brewer that wants to do it can do it. Keep an eye out for versions from over 500 breweries worldwide all working to help others in need. Visit alltogether.beer for all the details and a list of breweries involved. Collect them all 🙂 Brewed in Rochester. 

Other Half Brewing Co.

Many breweries jumped on board, and you can find some lists of who all is doing it on a few other sites, such as Craftbeerdrinking and Hopculture.

Craftbeer.com’s article (All Together Collaboration – Beer to Help Hospitality Workers) lists: Non Sequitur Beer Project, Side Project, Southern Grist, Mikerphone Brewing, Fifth Hammer Brewing, Modist Brewing, Outer Range Brewing Co., Industrial Arts Brewing Co., and obviously Other Half Brewing Co.

The All Together Beer website, a site designed for this and set up for this project, has a wealth of information on the project. I highly recommend checking this out. You can find the recipe, you can find ways to donate, and if you are a brewery, you can also find a way to jump aboard and become part of the project, as well as print out labels, and get ways to promote the beer for yourself as well. At the bottom of their page, they have a map and a running tally / statistic. There is 824 breweries that have participated, in 50 states (of the United States of America), and in 53 countries. That is amazing and just phenomenal! 824 breweries is insane! And every state, and 53 countries helping out, is just downright awesome. I don’t care how you slice it, breweries helping people, will always be awesome, and I will always gladly do what I can to help support that.

There is a map, that you can zoom in and see what breweries are doing the project. So being a Central PA native, I had to zoom in on PA and see who all is jumping aboard, and here is a list of many that are:

(in no particular order)

• Saucony Creek Brewing Company
• Robin Hood Brewing
• Shy Bear Brewing
• Hidden Stories Brewing Co. LLC
• Rotunda Brewing Company
• Ever Grain Brewing Co.
• Fourscore Beer Co
  * Collaboration with: Prototype Brewery and Meadery and Wolf Brewing Co.
• Shabby Deck Craft Brewery
• Suburban Brewing Company
• Voodoo Brewing Company
• Hitchhiker Brewing Company
• Grist House Craft Brewery
• Roundabout Brewery
• East End Brewing Co.
• Dancing Gnome
• 11th Hour Brewing
• Whitehorse Brewing
• Four Points Brewing
• Sly Fox Brewing Co.
• Lost Tavern Brewing
• Birthright Brewing Co.
• Angry Erik Brewing
• Naked Brewing Co.
• Free Will Brewing
• Imprint Beer Co.
• Well Crafted Beer Company
• Ten7 Brewing Company
• Brothers Kershner Brewing Company
• Bald Birds Brewing
• Rebel Hill Brewing Company
• Stickman Brews
• Brewery ARS
• Odd Logic Brewing
• Second Sin Brewing

And that’s just the list of Pennsylvania breweries! And just the ones mentioned so far. Who knows if more will do it (hopefully). And thats also just one state out of fifty, and one part of a country out of fifty-three countries. So there is obviously a lot more breweries doing this! Some big names too like Equilibrium Brewing in New York are on board as well. So there is definitely a lot of momentum and weight behind this movement and project, which is absolutely fabulous! Keep up all the great work breweries!

Another link with information can be found at Hopculture: Hopculture – Other Half’s All Together Beer Project for Hospitality Workers.

Now we got all of that behind us, the whys, the hows, and the whats of this amazing and great beer. Lets get into the beer itself!

Beer: All Together
Brewery: Ever Grain Brewing Co.
Collaboration: Other Half Brewing Co.
Style: IPA – New England
ABV: 6.5%
IBU: None Listed
Untappd Description: We are proud to be apart of this open-ended beer collaboration masterminded by Other Half Brewing Co. 100% of our proceeds are going to Hospitality Assistance Response of Pennsylvania.

Some of the various breweries listed what they changed of the recipe or adjusted, if they swapped hops or malts or added adjuncts. Ever Grain’s Untappd listing doesn’t state any changes. So I’m assuming its near identical to the recipe given by Other Half Brewing. You can find their recipe on their All Together website, and you can click here directly for the recipe. I also saved a copy of the recipe, and I’ll post it here as well:

So this is what I’m assuming Ever Grain did, just on their system, with possible minor tweaks along the way.

Firstly – appearance is beautiful orange. It has that lovely New England IPA look to it. Golden orange juicy appearance to it, like pouring into a tall pint glass your morning OJ (not… the killer… or running back… but the drink); but this time with alcohol added! (Double win!). It has a little foam head to it that is light and fluffy with dispersed bubbles.

Aroma is pound for pound sound for sound pure hoppy juicy, citrus, fruity, and delicious smelling. Just cracking this open and pouring it already has my mouth watering and ready to drink it. I got notes of citrus, grapefruit, passionfruit, orange and tangerine, with a bit of zest or lime to it at the end. There isn’t any west coast IPA notes to be found in this, no evergreen tree, no earthy notes, no forestry like notes, all pure New England typical hop aromas and notes. The dry hopping really brings them out to the forefront.

Taste is phenomenal, and sadly makes this beer go waaaaaaaay too quickly. Me and my friend D. Scott drank two crowlers of this, way, too, quickly, while doing one of our Knights of Nostalgia sessions. I think we finished our crowlers in about fifteen minutes each. Which, thankfully this is only 6.5% so we weren’t rocked from basically pounding 32oz., but this was also just too delicious to even set down. It is very juicy, very dank, very delicious. Its both fruity and citrusy, with notes of grapefruit, passionfruit, orange and tangerine. Theres a bit of a lime / lemon twist at the end, but very subtle, barely noticeable, but there is definitely a citrus vibe to this that goes with the fruity juicy nature of the beer itself. And like I said, at 6.5% its not too heavy or overwhelming, even in a 32oz crowler; or if you get a 4pk of this, (4 x 16 = 64oz) you could probably handle a 4pk in an evening and be fine for work the next day. (Work…. work…. I vaguely recall work….). The mouthfeel is also very nice, its not too thick, not cloying, or heavy, or watery thin either, its just the right level of consistency and feel on the tongue. This is definitely an easy sippable beer or a quick quaffer. Which, obviously, I was pretty quick with mine, but your mileage may vary. Knowing also, that 100% of the proceeds is going to the Hospitality Assistance Response of Pennsylvania, also makes this just so much tastier and drinkable.

My Untappd Rating: ****.25
Global Untappd Rating: 4.26 (as of 5.14.20).

Cheers everyone. Hopefully you are all making it through this quarantine and lockdown relatively safe, sound, and mentally safe and sound. If you are looking to donate for hospitality workers, there is links here in this article, and the All Together Beer link has thee most information on that. As well as information if you are a brewer, home brewer, or commercial brewer looking to make the beer as well. So please check that out here: All Together – Beer – We’re All In This Together.

As always everyone, thanks for checking out the blog, click the like, the follow, the subscribe, and share, and do all those other cool things to help us out. We greatly appreciate it, and love all of our readers. Stay safe and healthy, and make sure to drink up lots of All Together to help our favorite bartenders! They are going to need it. Even when we re-open, things will be tough for them for a while, and probably dealing with idiots not wanting to follow CDC guidelines and the such will be all the more difficult for them. So please, help them out. Cheers!

-B. Kline