Winter Beer Festival

I have always believed that one goal of Payette Brewing is to be the purveyor of everything beer in Boise and with that comes festivals. While other ones will come out of the woodwork as we move forward, I want to get some recent thoughts about a winter fest down. **Other ideas include a St. Patrick's Day Festival, a Summer Festival and Rocktoberfest (rock and beer, two of my favorite things). I am all for trying to combine these festivals with the IYF as charity events. The most important thing that these festivals provide for the brewery is exposure not income, so making them charity events just adds to the appeal.

In the spirit of the pop can tree, PBC could host a contest for the best post-consumer waste holiday thing. I dont want to restrict it to just Christmas trees because I would give special points to anyone who comes with a Festivus pole, even if it would be the easiest thing to make with empty beer cans. So basically anything winter holiday related made out of post-consumer waste would be accepted. There would also have to be rules mandating the use of some amount of beer products (preferably PBC) and there would have to be proof (pics/video) that those beer products were consumed by the entrants.

This contest could be tied in with a winter beer festival where people could come and enjoy seasonal beers from any breweries willing to come to Boise, local brewpubs included. While enjoying the beers, it would work like the festival of trees where attendees can check out and vote on all of the entries. Winners get a keg or something like that, minor details that can be figured out some other time. To me this would be a fun and unique addition to the standard winter beer festivals that go on all over the place. Doesn't need to compete with the festival of trees, more so another option.

These were just some of my initial thoughts, be sure to add any of you own ideas in the comments.