Pay close attention, beer lovers. The party of the year is just around the corner. The Arkansas Times Craft Beer Festival presented by the Arkansas Rice Council returns to downtown Argenta from 6-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2. The festival, which benefits the Argenta Arts District, has sold out in the past, so you’d be wise to pause reading this and go to centralarkansastickets.com and buy your tickets in advance ($25, $35 at the door). Because the Argenta Plaza is under construction, the festival will be in a new spot this year: It’ll be a block party on Fourth Street between Main and Maple streets.

Advertisement

This year we’ll have music from DJ extraordinaire Mike Poe, who’s bound to get the dance party started. Make sure you check out special tents from the Fayetteville Ale Trail and the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, which is promoting its Locally Labeled Passport Program.

There will also be eats, for purchase, from the Riceland Mobile Cafe, Reggae Flavas, Say Cheese, Wok ‘n Roll, K&T Hot Dogs, Loblolly Creamery, Black Hound BBQ and more.

Advertisement

The event runs rain or shine. Read on for a preview of the participating breweries and what they’ll be pouring.

ARKANSAS BREWERIES

Advertisement

Blue Canoe Brewing Co.

Last year, Blue Canoe expanded operations to a 20,000-square-foot warehouse on 37 E. 15th St. while still keeping things hopping at its River Market taproom. The new space is also available to rent for private events, and with indoor and outdoor games, two bars and a beer garden, Blue Canoe’s brews can reach even more taste buds. It’ll be pouring Oktoberfest ale at the festival, an amber, traditional beer with strong malt emphasis and hints of nutty flavor. Their tasting table will also feature the fruity Berry Creek Raspberry-Blackberry Gose and Razorback RyePA.

Advertisement

Core Public House

Established in Springdale by Jesse Core in 2010, Core Brewing Co. now has Core Public House locations in Bentonville, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Hot Springs, Springdale, North Little Rock and on South Main in Little Rock. They’ll be pouring Arkansas Red, an American red ale with a sweet base malt, a slight spice of rye and a hint of chocolate; Ouachita IPA, made with Simcoe and Amarillo hops, British ale malt and oats, and finished with a strong pine aroma; E-Stop Pale Ale, made with four hop varieties and dry hopped with Citra hops; Hazelnut Brown, their new seasonal Southern Brown Ale with hazelnut; and Warthog Helle, a Munich-style lager with German malts.

Advertisement

Diamond Bear Brewing Co.

Founded 18 years ago, Arkansas’s first production brewery is named for two former nicknames for The Natural State: the “Bear State” and the “Diamond State.” Its brewhouse in North Little Rock is also home to the delicious Ale House restaurant. This year they’ll be pouring the English-style Pale Ale, which combines earthy malt with bright hops; Two Term Double IPA, a dry hopped IPA with “fruity esters” and intense malt character; Pig Trail Porter, a dark combination of chocolate, coffee and caramel; and Southern Blonde, a crisp, golden lager with restrained hops and a hint of caramel.

Advertisement

Flyway Brewing Company

In the heart of the Argenta Arts District in North Little Rock, Flyway Brewing turns out year-round brews with titles that follow the brewery’s namesake: the Mississippi Flyway, the large migration route that takes birds over Arkansas to and from Canada and the Gulf of Mexico. Year-rounders, such as the Bluewing Berry Wheat, Early Bird IPA and Free Range Brown Ale, will all be available at the festival, along with Honeybird Blonde Ale. Nine Killer Imperial IPA from the Imperial Series will also be present on the tasting table, along with Coffee Cake Stout, the fall seasonal from the Traditional Cake series.

Lost Forty Brewing

Arkansas’s largest brewery by volume, Lost Forty has become a local household name, with its brews served and advertised in restaurants and retail stores everywhere. It recently released a 2018 batch of the three-barrel-aged Nighty Night Imperial Stout with only 50 cases available for purchase — it won’t hit market shelves until mid-November — at the brewery’s Festival of Darkness release party. While Nighty Night isn’t slated to be at the festival, the Baltic Porter, Forest Queen, Month of Sundays and Pumpkin Spice Easy Tiger will be at the tasting table to help you wet your whistle.

Advertisement

New Province Brewing Company

Derek and Megan McEnroe founded New Province Brewing Company in 2014, after Benton County voted to go wet in 2012. Their taproom and brewery in Rogers is in the middle of its first Trivia League season, and free brewery tours are conducted every Saturday afternoon. They’ll be pouring Café Muy Especial Imperial Stout, Kentucky Common and the Philosopher King IPA.

Ozark Beer Co.

Since moving in late 2016 to its new space in a historic building on the square in Rogers, Ozark has continued to expand the reach of its distribution, and four of its year-round canned beers can be found all over Northwest Arkansas and Central Arkansas. Marty Shutter, marketing director, said their motto “Hard Work, Honest Beer” translates in their efforts to keep prices accessible. “We keep our team small, our workload high and our prices low, hoping to dispel the notion that world-class beer can’t come at working-class prices,” he said. They’ll be pouring Ozark Lager, their newest year-round offering, a beer that Shutter said is “the hardest beer to brew but the easiest beer to drink;” Ozark IPA, with notes of pineapple, mango and pine; and the “roasty, yet light” Schwarzbier, a seasonal dark beer and their first dark lager, based on a Pilsen malt, with a dark color from roasted wheat.

Rebel Kettle Brewing Co.

Rebel Kettle’s creative and experimental brews are sure to be in high demand at the festival this year. Its brewery and taproom in the East Village features an enticing menu of Cajun-inspired pub-grub, an outdoor stage and a cornhole setup. “The thing I love about Rebel Kettle is we take our beer seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously,” said David Breen, brewery sales manager. In that same vein, they’ll be pouring the 11 percent alcohol-by-volume REDRUMPUM Imperial Pumpkin Amber Ale, aged in Caribbean rum barrels; Chug Life Malt Liquor, a craft interpretation of a malt liquor; Smooth Moves Smoothie IPA, brewed with tangerine, pineapple, vanilla beans and a bit of lactose to create the same flavor profile of a fruit smoothie; and the Alphaholic Mid-South Double IPA.

Stone’s Throw Brewing

Since Stone’s Throw opened at the vanguard of Arkansas’s craft brewery explosion in 2013, the cozy Little Rock neighborhood brewpub has gradually added more seating indoors and outside, and its space and selection continues to draw guests, both human and pooch alike. The brewery is working on a second location in the former home of Sandalwood Forest in Stifft Station. The new taproom won’t feature a kitchen, but it will offer more choices on tap and considerably more seating. At the festival, Stone’s Throw’s tasting table will include the very last keg of Rice & Shine, a beer it made with Arkansas rice in partnership with Arkansas Rice Depot, as well as the last keg of MacPark Marzen, which has been cellared since March to recreate their original Oktoberfest beers. They’ll also be pouring CranApple Cider and Riverdale Pale Ale.

Superior Bathhouse Brewery

When Rose Schweikhart opened Superior Bathhouse Brewery in Hot Springs in 2013, she was still in the intensive federal permitting process for getting licensed to brew her own beer. So she served great food and beers from other brewers until she received the license in 2015, but since then she’s been perhaps the only brewery in the world to use hot spring-fed water to make beer. Superior is without question the first brewery to open in a national park, and its location in downtown Hot Springs has proven to be a popular attraction for both tourists and natives. Schweikhart wasn’t sure what beer they’d bring to the festival when we reached her.

REGIONAL

Boulevard Brewing Company

Boulevard Brewing Co. has been brewing out of Kansas City, Mo., since 1989 and now boasts a 150-barrel brewery. This household name will bring its seasonal Nutcracker Ale, a hearty “winter warmer” brew with notes of molasses and spicy Chinook hops, as well as the grapefruit-forward Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale, which packs a surprising, peppery punch. They’ll also serve the Bourbon Barrel Quad, an 11.2 percent alcohol-by-volume barrel-aged ale with hints of cherry, toffee and vanilla.

Crosstown Brewing Co.

Memphis’s newest craft brewery, Crosstown Brewing Co., sits adjacent to the Crosstown Concourse, the behemoth former Sears, Roebuck & Co. distribution center turned modern living/dining/arts hybrid in Midtown. Crosstown Brewing Co. does not distribute in Arkansas yet, so festival attendees will have a unique opportunity to sample brews on this side of the Mississippi. They’ll be pouring Traffic IPA, brewed in the West Coast tradition with flavors of grapefruit, mango, passion fruit and pineapple, and a Raspberry Gose.

Independence Brewing Company

Independence has been slinging beers in south Austin, Texas, since 2004, and these smooth, flavorful beers are a testament to the indie spirit of the brewery. Austin Amber’s toasted malt flavor and American hops make for a smooth, crisp sip. The Liberty Lunch IPA is an intensely drinkable IPA, with notes of honey balancing out “luscious stone fruit and tropical hop flavors,” according to the brewers. Stash IPA combines four different types of hops — Nugget, Columbus, Galaxy and Summit — to create what the brewers describe as a “dark, resinous and enlightening hop trip.” The Redbud Berliner Weisse is a sour beer with tart, refreshing lemon notes.

Karbach Brewing Co.

Karbach Brewing Co. out of Houston uses German techniques to create beers and serve guests at its Biergarten and restaurant. Love Street, a Kolsch-style blonde, features delicate floral hops and a clean, refreshing malt profile. The Hopadillo IPA is a dry-hopped, bitter American IPA, according to the brewers. They’ll also be serving Lemon and Ginger Radler, a golden beer whose profile on the brewery’s site includes pairing recommendations of “hot afternoons” and “your next adventure.” Yule Shoot Ya Eye Out is a seasonal, smooth caramel malt with a citrus twist.

Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company

Built in 2005 as the first Mississippi packaging brewery since prohibition, Lazy Magnolia is known for its Southern Pecan, which it’ll be pouring at the festival. The lightly hopped brown ale is made with whole roasted pecans, used just like grain to create a nutty flavor profile, and it’s a part of their Welcome to the Porch series of beers.

Mother’s Brewing Company

Mother’s, the Springfield, Mo., brewery behind such household names as the Lil’ Helper IPA and Towhead Blonde, will be pouring three brews at the festival this year: Nudie Suit, a bold American porter with big malt flavor and aromas of coffee and dark chocolate; Hands Down, a light, crisp pale ale with dry hopped citrus and berry flavors; and Winter Grind, a dry English coffee stout infused with espresso beans.

Oskar Blues Brewery

With locations in Colorado, North Carolina and Texas, Oskar Blues Brewery claims the title of “original craft brew in a can” with the initial canning of its linchpin, Dale’s Pale Ale. The brewers say this was an effort to maintain the freshness of the beer, protect it from light, make it easier and safer to transport, and ensure its status as “infinitely recyclable.” They’ll be pouring Dale’s Pale Ale, Death By Coconut — a semi-sweet Irish porter made with dark chocolate — and the Ten FIDY Imperial Stout, an “immensely viscous” stout with flavors of chocolate-covered caramel and coffee.

Piney River Brewing Company

An 80-acre farm in Bucyrus, Mo., is home to the brewery and taproom “BARn” of Piney River. Started by Joleen and Brian Durham as homebrewers, the Ozark brewery now houses a 15-barrel brewhouse and an eight-head canning line. No word on what Piney River plans to pour at the festival yet

Prairie Artisan Ales

Innovation and creativity are at the heart of Prairie Artisan Ales in Krebs, Okla. Each bottle or can is wrapped in unique, intricate artwork, and the playful labels introduce eccentric brews. They’ll be pouring Bomb!, an imperial stout of aged coffee, chocolate, vanilla beans and ancho chili peppers, and Paradise, another imperial stout with notes of vanilla and coconut. Pink Guava Funk will also be available, as well as Standard, a hoppy farmhouse ale, and the intriguingly titled Phantasmagoria, a double IPA.

Rahr & Sons Brewing Company

Brewing out of Fort Worth since 2004, the Rahr family behind Rahr & Sons comes from a long line of German brewers. Frederick William “Fritz” Rahr Jr. and his wife, Erin, opened Rahr & Sons 160 years after Fritz’s grandfather founded Eagle Brewery, the first lager brewery in Wisconsin, according to the brewers. They’ll be pouring Dadgum IPA, charged with Citra and Lemondrop hops and with notes of fresh cut pine; Paleta de Mango, a mango chili beer with lime; and the Adios Pantalones, a Mexican-style cerveza de sesión brewed with lemon and lime.

Shiner Beer

An iconic name in Texas beer, Shiner has been brewing out of Shiner, Texas, since 1909. The classic Shiner Bock, an American dark-style lager, will be poured at the festival, along with Shiner Blonde, Shiner Cheer — a holiday dunkelweizen brewed with Texas peaches and roasted pecans — and Shiner Ruby Redbird, a grapefruit lager with a kick of ginger.

Shock Top Brewing Company

This St. Louis brewery produces tart beers packed with citrus flavor. Try the Belgian White and a tart Lemon Shandy, as well as Ruby Fresh — a Belgian-style grapefruit ale — along with Citrus Pearls, a light malt with sweet lemon and lime flavors.

SweetWater Brewery

Atlanta’s SweetWater Brewery started in 1997 as the brainchild of two college friends. After a 100,000-square-foot expansion in 2012, the brewery also broadened its distribution, and now also hosts 420 Fest, a beer and music festival in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park. At the craft beer festival, they’ll be pouring their most popular beer, the West Coast-style 420 Extra Pale Ale. The tasting table will also feature Blue, a light bodied wheat ale with subtle fresh blueberry flavor, along with 420 Strain G13 IPA, an “aromatic super-hybrid sticky” IPA with Columbus and Simcoe hops.

Tin Roof Brewing Company

Tin Roof claims to be Baton Rouge, La.’s largest craft brewery, and with a location between downtown Baton Rouge and Louisiana State University, its large footprint and wide range of canned beers serves a big, thirsty crowd. They’ll be pouring the heavily dry hopped Voodoo, an American Pale Ale with melon, passion fruit and pine flavors; the Juke Joint IPA, a combination of Pilsner, Munich and Carafoam malts with berry and citrus aromas and earthy notes; and the kettle sour Uber Froot Blackberry Berliner Weisse, a dry, effervescent purple brew with fruity sweetness.

NATIONAL

Against the Grain Brewery

Since 2011, Against The Grain has prided itself on producing beer that “could be fun, not stuffy or too proper for a rowdy time.” It was Louisville, Ky.’s first brewer-owned-and-operated brewery. Its canned brews can now be found in 43 states in the U.S. and in over 25 countries around the world. Against the Grain’s diverse variety of beers can be categorized by six main styles: Session, Hop, Whim, Malt, Dark and Smoke, and you’ll get a chance to taste its Citra Wet Ass Down IPA, a double IPA made with fresh, wet Citra and Mosaic hops, which, according to the brewers, is “a crusher.”

Breckenridge Brewery

A 12-acre plot of land in Littleton, Co., formerly a carnation farm, is now home to Breckenridge Brewery. The brewery began operations in 1990 in Breckenridge, the mountain town of its namesake, before later moving to two locations in Denver and then outgrowing them, too. Their “farm-inspired” campus in Littleton features a 100-barrel brewhouse, a barrel-aging room and the Farm House restaurant. Look for Breckenridge Vanilla Porter at the festival, featuring a roasted malt made from Madagascar vanilla beans and caramel and Munich malts.

Destihl Brewing Co.

Destihl Brewery, which vows to “support flavor” and “boycott bland,” opened in Normal, Ill., in 2007. The Destihl Restaurant and Brew Works complex now sits on 6 acres of land, as well as at a second location in Champaign, Ill. Its list of beers continues to grow, and Destihl will bring three of them to the festival: Moonjumper Milk Stout, with notes of roasted and chocolate malts; a Gose; and Syncopathic, an acidic, dry hopped Sour Ale from their Wild Sour series with citrus and fruit notes of grapefruit, orange, lemon, tangerine, pineapple and hints of pine.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

With roots in Delaware since 1995, the Dogfish Head empire now includes a brewery, distillery, restaurant and the Dogfish Inn, located in historic downtown Lewes in coastal Delaware. The Dogfish philosophy is all about bringing “off-centered goodness to off-centered people” through their brews, food and hospitality. You can try some of that off-centered goodness for yourself at its tasting table. Dogfish will be pouring SeaQuench Ale, a sour mash-up of three German styles — “Kolsch, a salty Gose, and a tart Berliner Weiss” — brewed with black limes, sour lime juice and sea salt; a 60 Minute IPA, which is just that: a continually hopped IPA that’s boiled for 60 solid minutes with grassy, citrusy flavors; and Namaste White Ale, a Belgian-style ale using ingredients of dried organic orange slices, fresh-cut lemongrass, peppercorns and a bit of coriander for a slightly spicy finish.

Elysian Brewing Company

Elysian Brewing is a Seattle powerhouse that operates four restaurants and a full-production brewery. The three-time Large Brewpub of the Year winner at the Great American Beer Festival has been brewing since 1996, and Elysian is “seasonally notorious” for its pumpkin beers. Elysian will be pouring the Space Dust IPA at the festival, a brew featuring what brewers call “pure starglow energy.” Chinook hops are added first, to bitter the beer, and dry Citra and Amarillo are added later.

Evil Twin Brewing

Founded by Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø in 2011, Evil Twin Brewing uses a unique distribution model: Its beers are prepared in 10 different breweries around the world. Their “delicate, funky, extreme and by all means rare” flavors also feature clean, geometric label designs that convey the Danish origin of the founder. They’ll be pouring Pappy’s Even More Jesus Imperial Stout, aged in Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon Barrels and brewed by Westbrook Brewing Co. in South Carolina; Falco IPA, an American IPA, brewed by Two Roads Brewing Co. in Connecticut; and Molotov Cocktail Imperial IPA, described by the brewery as a “tour de force in rebellious hoppiness,” also made at Two Roads Brewing Co.

Founders Brewing Company

Founders Brewing prides itself on brewing beer not for the masses, but for people who enjoy big, bold flavors outside of traditional taste. This philosophy has rung true with beer lovers, bringing success — six World Beer Cup medals, four European Beer Star medals and three Great American Beer Festival medals — and the ability to keep forging ahead with new flavors and series. They’ll be pouring All Day IPA, Centennial IPA, Solid Gold, Porter and Dirty Bastard from the year-round selection, and their tasting table will also feature three brews from their Barrel-Aged series: Backwoods Bastard, a scotch ale with earthy spice and a hint of dark fruit; KBS, a chocolate coffee stout brewed with a “massive amount” of coffee and chocolates; and Curmudgeon’s Better Half, an old ale brewed with molasses and aged in maple syrup bourbon barrels.

Golden Road Brewing

Meg Gill and Tony Yanow are the beer enthusiasts behind Golden Road Brewing, which opened in Los Angeles in 2011. They’ve since partnered with Anheuser-Busch and expanded from their original pub and brewery in Atwater Village to locations in downtown LA, Anaheim and Sacramento. Golden Road focuses on sustainably providing fresh beer to its local market, and it’ll be pouring Wolf Pup Session IPA at the festival, a core beer from its year-round offerings with a “a wildly aromatic tropical and citrus character.”

Goose Island Beer Company

Chicago staple Goose Island Beer has garnered respect among craft beer drinkers since its inception in 1988. In 2011, it was acquired by Anheuser-Busch, and, according to the brewers, this has allowed Goose Island to distribute its craft brews nationally and internationally. They’re bringing 312 Urban Wheat and Goose IPA, and they’ll also be pouring vintage ales Lolita, Halia and Gillian, along with Bourbon County Stout, a bourbon-barrel aged imperial stout with intense aromas of charred oak, chocolate, vanilla, caramel and smoke.

Harpoon Brewery (Clown Shoes Beer)

Clown Shoes Beer strives to create craft beer “without pretension” while maintaining the “free and a little crazy” spirit behind its recipes. In 2017, Clown Shoes was acquired by Harpoon, a Boston-based employee-owned brewery, and it continues to produce unique and creative brews. They’ll be pouring Bubble Factory and Chocolate Sombrero — a Mexican-style chocolate stout — as well as Undead Party Crasher, an American Imperial Stout.

Lagunitas Brewing Company

With multiple hubs, in California, Washington and Illinois, Lagunitas is sharing its brews with the “beer-loving disapora” across the country. They’re returning to the festival with some favorites, including their popular IPA; American strong ale Brown Shugga; and Super Cluster, “a Citra-hopped mega ale of intergalactic proportions.”

Nebraska Brewing Company

Homebrewer Paul Kavulak and his wife, Kim, founded Nebraska Brewing Company in 2001 using a brewing system purchased out of Sasebo, Japan, and in 2014 they completed construction of their second facility, a packaging brewery and taproom just miles from the original brewpub. They distribute in several states and China, Japan and Germany. They’ll be pouring Brunette Nut Brown Ale, a blend of six different malts with notes of coffee, toffee and caramel; Little Betty Stout; Cardinal Pale Ale, a golden, dry hopped American Pale Ale with floral and citrus aromas; and Nebraska IPA, a West Coast-inspired IPA with Citra hops that creates citrus, pine and floral aromatics that is “beautifully Nebraskan.”

New Belgium

Now the fourth-largest craft brewer in the U.S., New Belgium began operations in 1991 out of a tiny Fort Collins, Colo., basement. Inspired by founder Jeff Lebesch’s trip to Belgium, these Belgian-inspired brews feature several year-round beers as well as seasonal brews released throughout the year. Their tasting table will feature the beer they’re best known for, Fat Tire amber ale. They’re also bringing the Voodoo Ranger IPA, a golden IPA with tropical aromas and fruit flavors from Mosaic and Amarillo hops, and the Hemperor HPA, a blend of hemps and hops they’re calling “the world’s dankest ale.”

Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.)

Samuel Adams beer began in 1984 with Jim Koch’s first batch of Boston Lager brewed in his home’s kitchen. That recipe dated back to the 1870s, when his great-great-grandfather had a St. Louis brewery. A mere six weeks after Koch first served his Samuel Adams Boston Lager to the public, it won the “Best Beer in America” award at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Since then, Sam Adams has grown exponentially: It’s now the second-largest craft brewery in the U.S. They’ll be pouring Sam ’76, a lager and ale hybrid with Citra and Mosaic hops, and their New England IPA, a “hazy and juicy” IPA with pineapple and grapefruit hop character.

Sierra Nevada Brewing

While Sierra Nevada is now the third-largest craft brewery in the U.S., it started out on a much smaller scale. According to the brewer, founder Ken Grossman began homebrewing in the ’70s and would go on to help shape the future of craft beer-making in America. Sierra Nevada will be pouring its original and most popular beer, the Pale Ale, along with hop-heavy, unfiltered and unprocessed Hazy Little Thing IPA, and Oktoberfest, a German-American collaboration with Weihenstephan, the world’s oldest brewery, which features a malt backbone with subtle hop character.

Squatters Craft Beers

Squatters founding partners Peter Cole and Jeff Polychronis opened the first brewpub in Salt Lake City in 1989. Wasatch Brewery and Squatters Craft Beers make up the Utah Brewers Cooperative, and they’ll be coming back to the fest with Hop Rising Double IPA, a fruit-forward IPA with notes of mango and citrus from exotic hops.

Stillwater Artisanal

Brian Strumke founded Stillwater Artisanal in 2010 after a career as an electronica DJ and producer. His homebrewing experiments in the backyard of his Baltimore home eventually led to a distribution deal with Twelve Percent Imports, but to this day, neither Strumke nor Stillwater has its own facility. Strumke instead uses excess capacity at existing breweries and travels to each of them to produce his batches. The method must work because Stillwater has ranked on RateBeer.com‘s Top 100 Brewers In The World list every year since its inception. It’ll be pouring Action Bronson’s 7000 Wild Ale, a dry hopped sour ale brewed with muscat grapes with notes of apricot, grapefruit and fresh grass.

Stone Brewing

Stone Brewing began as a small San Diego microbrewery in 1996, and it’s now been named “All-time Top Brewery on Planet Earth” by Beer Advocate not once, but twice. Stone Brewing has several locations in California, as well as “outposts” in Richmond, Va., Berlin and Shanghai. They’re bringing three brews to the festival: Fear.Movie.Lions., an unfiltered double IPA with tropical and citrus notes; Stone IPA, a crisp, extra hoppy brew with “tropical, citrusy, piney hop flavors and aromas” and a subtle malt character; and the citrusy Delicious IPA, with Lemondrop and El Dorado hops.

Wasatch Brewery

Greg Schirf, founder of Wasatch Brewery, opened the first brewpub in Utah in 1989, and now is part of the Utah Brewers Cooperative along with Squatters Craft Beers. Wasatch Brewery will be pouring Polygamy Nitro Porter, a nitrogenated version of its original Polygamy Porter (more nitrogen gives beer a creamier taste), along with Devastator Double Bock and Ghostrider White IPA.

50 years of fearless reporting and still going strong

Be a part of something bigger and join the fight for truth by subscribing or donating to the Arkansas Times. For 50 years, our progressive, alternative newspaper in Little Rock has been tackling powerful forces through our tough, determined, and feisty journalism. With over 63,000 Facebook followers, 58,000 Twitter followers, 35,000 Arkansas blog followers, and 70,000 email subscribers, it's clear that our readers value our commitment to great journalism. But we need your help to do even more. By subscribing or donating – as little as $1 –, you'll not only have access to all of our articles, but you'll also be supporting our efforts to hire more writers and expand our coverage. Take a stand with the Arkansas Times and make a difference with your subscription or donation today.

Previous article Police Chief Buckner finalist for Syracuse job Next article Tough choice for Little Rock mayor