What? The greatest city in the world didn’t have a beer festival before 2004? Apparently that was the case so someone decided to fix the problem and started Brewtopia.

“The Brewtopia Great World Beer Festival was first conceived in late 2003 by a beer lover who asked himself “I go to a lot of beer festivals around the country, but why is there not one in New York?” He went on to discover that there is alot of work and risk associated with pulling an event of this scope off successfully. Undaunted, and perhaps a little naive, the beer enthusiast held the very first Brewtopia Festival at the Metropolitan Pavillion right in New York City in April of 2004. It was a raging success! Since then Brewtopia has grown and grown. Finally, the Jacob Javits Convention Center agreed to allow their enormous facility on 34th Street to become the home of the Great World Beer Festial. The first Javits Brewtopia is this October, 2006. Never before has New York City participated in this great a beer extraveganza witih the world’s finest breweries gathering in the same city that hosts the United Nations.”

Over 100 breweries and 300 beers! Check out the full list.

Date:
Friday October 20th
7:00 PM to 11:00 pm

Saturday October 21st
Session I 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Session II 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Tickets: By tickets online.

Where: Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City

Getting there: The Javits Center is located at 655 W. 34th Street (11th Ave from 34th -39th)
By subway - A, C, E, 1, 2, 3 to 34th St. Penn Station and walk west on 34th St. to 11th Ave. You can’t miss it.