We just wanted to let everyone know that tonight, Wednesday April 14th is your last chance to buy Hickory Hops beer festival tickets online at www.hickoryhops.com. We've actually extended the deadline by a few hours, but at midnight Eastern time it'll be over.

If you want to buy your tickets in person, you can still do that at either the Olde Hickory Tap Room (222 Union Square, Hickory, NC 828.322.1965) or Amos Howards (2828 US Hwy 70 SW, Hickory, NC 828.323.8753) through Thurs. April 15th. But that is the end of advance sales.

Right now it looks like we'll have a few tickets available for purchase on the day of the event (that could change), but why wait and pay $5 more?!? The weather forecast is close to perfect, 45 brewers have confirmed participation, there will be over 200 beers available, many restaurants on the Square will be offering specials and we have Mountain Still and Baby Black orchestra playing live!

By the way, did we mention which Olde Hickory beers we'll be serving?

We'll have a few classics - Table Rock Pale Ale, Hickory Stick Stout and Hefe-Weizen. We're also serving our current seasonal Poor Richard's Ale. For something a little extra special, you'll find Bardstown Brand barley wine. Then we decided to go all out with the cask conditioned beers! We have our ESB, which should be very interesting out of the cask. And we also casked some Table Rock, so you'll be able to compare cask vs. modern keg. And then, our cask pièce de résistance-Irish Walker! Irish Walker just won a silver medal at the World Beer Cup 2010 in Chicago. This is an extra special treat for our fans.

Hope to see everyone on Saturday!

Cheers!