This year, the last Saturday of the holiday will also be a holiday for all lovers of excellent boutique beer. On August 31st, the Pelicon Brewery will prepare the 6th Pivomania: Craft Beer Festival 2019 in Ajdovščina. This time, the festival will be held in the spirit of curiosity, research and delving into a rich range of different styles of beer, which will be introduced to visitors with a manual and a sommelier workshop.
With a delicious culinary offer and musical accompaniment, it will also experience its premiere at Pivomania a new drink in the Pelicon & Bratinov series, but of course its predecessor, the entirely Slovenian gin and tonic s Hoppy Tonic Pelicon breweries and Bratinov gin. Advance tickets are already available online and at all OMV gas stations and 3dva newsagents across Slovenia.
"At the beginning of the second five-year plan, we decided to connect the widest possible selection of different styles of beer to the taps of Pivomania. We want to be able to pamper connoisseurs with specials, while at the same time providing beginners who are just getting to know craft beer a really good springboard into the colorful world of boutique brewing." she said while preparing for the festival, which is also supported by the Municipality of Ajdovščina Anita Lozar, co-founder of Pivovarna Pelicon. Thus, at Pivomania, they will present classic world beer styles, their own classics (for example The 3rd Pill, Out of China or Yes Boss) and this year's innovations (for example the new low-alcohol beer Relax), beers from visiting domestic and foreign brewers, as well as boutique series that the young people of Ajdov brewers brew with colleagues all over Europe.
Legends, specialties and brewery candies
"At Pivomania, we will present the results of the so-called 'collabs' that we have had in the past few months. In Belgrade, we brewed a light summer beer with linden flowers with the Dogma brewery, in April we were in Berlin, where we worked with the Motel brewery, in July we brewed in Zagreb with The Garden Brewery, and in August we are going to London, where we will brew together with to our old friends and craft brewing legends Yeasty Boys," he listed Matej Pelicon, head brewer and co-founder of Pivovarna Pelicon. Of course, collaborations take place not only with foreign, but also with domestic brewing friends, this year, for example, with a brewery Human Fish and winemaking A storm. Most of these specialties will be available to try at Pivomania, as well as some brewery sweets, such as smoked (rauchbier) beer in the Märzen style from a traditional brewery Schlenkerl from Bamberg, Germany, or a rarely, if ever, sour beer (lambic) on tap with cherries from a Brussels brewery Cantillion.
One ticket, (almost) endless beers
For the bouncy atmosphere at Pivomania, the event will be accompanied by music throughout the day, which will now be the responsibility of the house musicians The Hish N'Band, and this year's special guests will be Slovenian "trumpeters" Give me another liter. This year, too, Pivomania will be preserved all-inclusive event concept, which allows visitors to taste all types of beer by purchasing a festival ticket. A ticket in advance costs 20 euros, but from August 18 it will cost 25 euros. "We wanted the visitors to Pivomania to feel really good and to be able to spend their time in pleasant company, but not standing in line at the cash registers," Anita Lozar explains the concept and adds that visitors can take home a festival glass as a souvenir. At the same time, she warned that because of Pivomania, the surrounding lodgings are quickly sold out during this period, "so don't wait until the last minute to book rooms and apartments, but you can, of course, choose a zero-zero driver among your friends and drive home safely after the event," Anita urged.
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