Brewery Vivant to introduce rare, limited brews at 3rd annual Wood-Aged Beer Festival

The third annual Wood-Aged Beer Festival will take place Saturday, October 5 from 1-9 p.m. Brewery Vivant will feature 20 of their own wood-aged brews. The event is 21+, and $10 will get you admission, a collector's glass and two beer or food tokens. 

Aging beer in barrels allows brewers to add flavor into their beers. The variety of styles available at the Wood-Aged Beer Festival will allow local beer aficionados and newcomers to expand their palates. 

The selection will include Bourbon Barrel Ales, Wine Barrel Aged Brews, Belgian Style Sours and others. Brewery Vivant will also be supplying festival-style food from their kitchen.

This year the festival takes place in the Brewery Vivant parking lot, allowing for more space than previous years. Individuals at the festival will be able to walk around and sample the different wood-aged varieties and pick their favorites while munching on portable fare.

The Rapidian is setting up a story fort at the festival this year. As a part of the Story Matters project, The Rapidian is building a fort much like the dining-chair bed-sheet ones of your childhood in which attendants of the festival can share a memory or experience had in Grand Rapids, how they've seen the local brew culture grow or simply why this city is great. Stories told in the story fort will be recorded on video and then shared on The Rapidian Story Matters page and GRTV. 

Families are welcome at the festival, but all children must be accompanied by an adult.