Drawing: Capital Region Craft Brewers Fest 2014
Drawing's closed!
The annual Capital Region Craft Brewers Festival returns July 12 to The Joe, and we've got a pair of "Grand Slam" passes to give away. The passes include: admission, souvenir sampling glass, 10 tasting tickets, a t-shirt, admission to the VIP area with a catered buffet, and a ticket to a future Tri-City ValleyCats baseball game.
To enter the drawing, please answer this question in the comments:
What's something local on your must-do list for before the end of this summer?
Could be some activity, a place to visit, whatever. We'll draw winner at random. That person will get the pair of passes.
The Capital Region Craft Brewers Festival is July 12 from 2:30-6:30 pm at Joe Bruno Stadium. It brings together about two dozen breweries from the Capital Region and beyond.
Tickets for the event start at $25 / $32 at the gate. (There's also a $10 designated driver ticket.) The "Grand Slam" passes that are part of this drawing are $40 ahead ($47 at the gate). Proceeds benefit the New York-Penn League Charitable Foundation, which helps maintain youth baseball fields.
Important: All comments must be submitted by 5 pm on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 to be entered in the drawing. You must be 21 to enter. You must answer the question to be part of the drawing. (Normal commenting guidelines apply.) One entry per person, please. You must enter a valid email address (that you check regularly) with your comment. The winner will be notified via email by midnight Tuesday and must respond by 5 pm on Wednesday, July 2.
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Visiting Jumpin Jacks!
... said Kelly on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:16 AM | link
Thatcher Park!
... said Kelly on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:19 AM | link
Grafton Park for swimming!
... said Jim on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:20 AM | link
Jack's Drive Inn in Wynantskill!
... said BenK. on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:23 AM | link
My summer to-do list includes eating (let's not exclude drinking) leisurely dinners outside at as many local restaurants as possible, followed up sampling the goods at as many soft-serve ice cream vendors as I can!
... said Nicole on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:23 AM | link
Swim in Sacandaga and Lake George
... said John on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:24 AM | link
Having a milk shake in every variety of vanilla from Moxie's
... said CAOD on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:24 AM | link
jacks drive in Wynantskil
... said Tom on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:25 AM | link
It's maybe debatable how "local," but there's this great marble quarry up in Vermont for swimming--I've been meaning to get back up there for years!
... said Laura on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:28 AM | link
top of the list: go to a drive-in movie.
... said sara on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:28 AM | link
Visit Lake George village and beach.
... said Joe on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:28 AM | link
Saratoga Race Track!
... said Tyler W on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:29 AM | link
Climbing Mount Greylock
... said Alisa on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:31 AM | link
Checking out the Opus 40 sculpture park with a stop at Crossroads Brewing on the way back home.
... said Vitameatavegameg on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:31 AM | link
Definitly want to make it out to Cape Cod this summer!
... said amber on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:35 AM | link
Must get to a Valley Cats game (already checked that one off the list chaperoning on my son's school field trip so perhaps we'll make it 2 this summer)! And also must get to Jumping Jacks as well!
... said Graceful J on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:39 AM | link
I have to go berry picking at Samascott. And we always stop for soft serve on the way home.
... said Trish on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:45 AM | link
Soft serve ice cream, SPAC/the track, Alive at Five, and being outside as much as possible. Soak up the sunshine while you still can!
... said kk on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:46 AM | link
Berry picking!
... said Sarah on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:48 AM | link
a trip to the troy farmer's market!
... said Jen on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:51 AM | link
To go kayaking and/or swimming at every possible body of water in the Capitol Region this summer.
... said Tim Raab on Jun 30, 2014 at 11:56 AM | link
Have to head to the track at least once every summer
... said Shawn on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:02 PM | link
Catch a Valley Cats home game @ The Joe!
... said Matt P on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:09 PM | link
Snowman Ice Cream!!
... said Chris H. on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:13 PM | link
Go to Nine Pin Cider Works!
... said boya3706 on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:14 PM | link
Kayak on the Hudson.
... said Jason on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:21 PM | link
Camping and kayaking
... said Liz on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:24 PM | link
The Capital Region Craft Brewers Festival is on my must do list!!!!
... said Ron on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:25 PM | link
Peebles Island and Log Bay in Lake George
... said Greg on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:25 PM | link
Jumping Jacks!
... said Kim on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:32 PM | link
La Mexicana. Preferably by bike.
... said Ed on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM | link
Fish frys at Gene's
... said mo on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM | link
the drive ins!
... said JF on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM | link
We refer to it as triple B (Browns, Beers, Baseball)! I get together with my friends every summer for dinner at Brown's, and then we head over to the Joe for a Valley Cats game. Looking forward to another great night this summer.
... said bb on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:41 PM | link
I'd like to check out the dig deep in Woodstock!
... said Candace McHugh on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:52 PM | link
Definitely the race track at Saratoga!!
... said Beth on Jun 30, 2014 at 12:56 PM | link
Working on my house, relaxing on the deck with friends.
... said Abe on Jun 30, 2014 at 1:05 PM | link
Hike in the Adirondacks
... said Jbird on Jun 30, 2014 at 1:09 PM | link
Skipping dinner and enjoying a hot fudge sundae from Snowman's in Troy!
And of course checking out every patio in the tri-county area.
... said Melissa on Jun 30, 2014 at 1:12 PM | link
Definitely the annual trek to Thacher State Park.
... said Nick on Jun 30, 2014 at 1:37 PM | link
Go to the top of the Corning tower
... said Joe on Jun 30, 2014 at 1:44 PM | link
I have to head up to Lake George and get some Martha's
... said Sita on Jun 30, 2014 at 1:44 PM | link
Winning big at the track (or just breaking even!)
... said Erin on Jun 30, 2014 at 1:51 PM | link
Replace my leaky old shed !!
... said -R. on Jun 30, 2014 at 2:08 PM | link
Hearing Tom Durkin say "Annnnnd they're off!" over the PA at Saratoga Race Track for the last time this summer.
... said KGB on Jun 30, 2014 at 2:16 PM | link
many, many trips to Moxie's ice cream!
... said susie on Jun 30, 2014 at 2:19 PM | link
Bring my 4 year old to Moxie's. We meant to go last year and it just got away from us!
... said Margie C on Jun 30, 2014 at 2:21 PM | link
Eating a big Ice Cream cone with my daughter!
... said Rita on Jun 30, 2014 at 2:45 PM | link
Spend a day in Lake George!
... said Cherly on Jun 30, 2014 at 2:58 PM | link
As many soft serve ice cream runs as possible!
... said Colleen on Jun 30, 2014 at 3:06 PM | link
Water slide world!
... said Albany MD on Jun 30, 2014 at 3:28 PM | link
Thacher Park and Tollgate ice cream.
... said Evan on Jun 30, 2014 at 3:30 PM | link
LOUD NOISES!
... said Doug Bartow on Jun 30, 2014 at 3:49 PM | link
Baseball Hall of Fame and Ommegang tour & tasting. I've been promising my son since he was five we'd go to Cooperstown. Now he's old enough to do a beer tasting too.
... said Uncle Zamboni on Jun 30, 2014 at 3:56 PM | link
Betting the ponies in 'toga
... said Kevin on Jun 30, 2014 at 4:01 PM | link
Getting ice cream at Kurver Kreme!
... said KTT on Jun 30, 2014 at 4:12 PM | link
Attend ciders n sliders
... said Brian on Jun 30, 2014 at 4:33 PM | link
visit and/or camp in our local parks.
... said JoeA on Jun 30, 2014 at 4:53 PM | link
It's not summer until we've skipped lunch and replaced it with soft serve from a Corner Ice Cream.
... said abby on Jun 30, 2014 at 6:04 PM | link
Tubing near lake Luzurne!
... said Dave on Jun 30, 2014 at 6:51 PM | link
Going to Grafton Lake to swim after I hit the trails.
... said Brian on Jun 30, 2014 at 7:16 PM | link
Every summer about now, I pick up a few growlers at Brown's and head over to the Troy docks to meet Zipper Saunders. Old Zip (not to be confused with Young Zip, who looks just like Old Zip, but is dead) is going up the Hudson on the Miss Kiev, a houseboat converted into a tugboat and then back to a houseboat. Old Zip makes the trip every year, starting in Florida, fleeing the heat all the way up north. Together we go up the Champlain canal to Lake Champlain, where Old Zip spends the summer floating around without paying dock fees. Old Zip gets a little check each month from the government. He claims to have been injured in the invasion of Grenada, slipping on a Daiquiri at the airport. He has a note from a V.A. doctor--laminated--that says he can't work, pick up heavy objects, or be around sudden or loud noises. Nutmeg can make him psychotic. The little check money pays for Miss Kiev’s diesel. She drinks quite a bit. Old Zip peddles bootlegged Indian reservation cigarettes, ice-cold beers, and blue thermoses of rum punch to boaters out on the lake who have run out of such things. He makes a tidy profit. The cops turn a blind eye, he says, because the Miss Kiev is on submarine patrol for DHS. Old Zip says the Canadians have an Oberon class vessel somewhere on the bottom. “We’ll get ‘em!†At night we sit out in the cool darkness and Old Zip tells one tall tale after another while a bug zappers sparks and spits. He once picked a fight with Ernest Hemingway. Papa beat him to a pulp. “Didn’t think he’d fight a nine year old in a back brace!†laughed Old Zip. Last July an Edie Brickell impersonator threw a scotch glass at him in some dive in Burlington. He deflected it with the plastic plate in his skull and fell in love. We spent the rest of the summer skulking around seedy bars with a big Whitman’s Samplers box, hoping to ask her to move onto the Miss Kiev and teach us cross harp harmonica on the way back down south. We never found her. The chocolate finally melted all together. At a petting zoo outside Ticonderoga we pulled out all the Cashew Clusters and ate them with tall boys of Bud. “Doesn’t get much better than this, sonny-boy!†said Old Zip. We fed the rest of the Whitman's box to a Llama and then sailed home. This year will be even better. I can hardly wait.
... said Big 'Vic' Proton on Jun 30, 2014 at 7:32 PM | link
Hike a high peak...or 2.
... said Dylan on Jun 30, 2014 at 8:19 PM | link
Picnic, wine, and the Philadelphia Orchestra at SPAC
... said Greg on Jun 30, 2014 at 8:39 PM | link
Looking forward to hitting the drive in this summer!
... said Laura on Jun 30, 2014 at 9:24 PM | link
go to the drive in!
... said Lauren on Jun 30, 2014 at 9:54 PM | link
I want to see at least one Valleycats home game this summer.
... said Tom Murnane on Jun 30, 2014 at 10:31 PM | link
Visit Saratoga Spa and the Gideon Putnam.
... said Josh on Jun 30, 2014 at 10:42 PM | link
PARTY ON THECAPTAIN J.P. WITH A LIVE BAND
PREFERABLY THE REFRIGERATORS !!
... said tony on Jun 30, 2014 at 10:55 PM | link
Baseball Hall of Fame
... said Brett on Jul 1, 2014 at 12:04 AM | link
Make it out to one of the Poets in the Park readings in Washington Park this July.
... said Shaun on Jul 1, 2014 at 6:46 AM | link
Climb buck mountain!
... said sam cuddeback on Jul 1, 2014 at 7:06 AM | link
Take a ride through the Adirondacks!
... said kaitlyn bessey on Jul 1, 2014 at 7:08 AM | link
NYC ballet at SPAC
... said Colleen on Jul 1, 2014 at 7:19 AM | link
Paintball at Capital Combat Zone!
... said Mike B on Jul 1, 2014 at 7:54 AM | link
Berkshire Botanical Gardens
... said Julie Maynes on Jul 1, 2014 at 7:56 AM | link
A day at the track!
... said Jim on Jul 1, 2014 at 8:10 AM | link
A day at Victoria Pool in Saratoga.
... said Emily Griffin on Jul 1, 2014 at 8:47 AM | link
Go to a drive-in movie + hit my favorite swimming spots.
@Julie Maynes: The Albany Public Library main branch has a Berkshire Botanical Gardens pass you can borrow. It covers two people.
... said Spencer on Jul 1, 2014 at 8:57 AM | link
I need to go lazy river tubing at Tubby Tubes!
... said Tara on Jul 1, 2014 at 8:59 AM | link
Seeing the FREE plays in the Park at the Park Playhouse
... said Rich R on Jul 1, 2014 at 9:36 AM | link
Winning BIG at the Saratoga Race Track
... said Michelle on Jul 1, 2014 at 9:37 AM | link
Drive to Berlin for their 4th of July parade of floats, patriotism and music on a flatbed truck parked at the fire department following the parade. Visiting this very welcoming town is like stepping into Mayberry - and it has become a must-do summer activity.
... said sharmon on Jul 1, 2014 at 10:09 AM | link
Tubing in the Adirondacks!
... said Jenna on Jul 1, 2014 at 10:48 AM | link
Hike the Indian Ladder Trail at Thacher State Park.
... said Joanna on Jul 1, 2014 at 10:52 AM | link
Take a dip in the Lincoln Park pool
... said Caitlin on Jul 1, 2014 at 11:31 AM | link
Train myself to not hate running and be ready for the 5k I signed up for.
... said ilana on Jul 1, 2014 at 12:46 PM | link
Swim in the Victoria Pool!
... said Serge on Jul 1, 2014 at 12:52 PM | link
Do the unthinkable and pull off the Capital District free city community musical festival trifecta all in the same week - Rockin' on the River, Summer at the Plaza and Alive @ 5. Bonus points awarded for seeing Eastbound Jesus twice.
... said Casey on Jul 1, 2014 at 3:06 PM | link
go paddle boarding on saratoga lake
... said mark L. on Jul 1, 2014 at 4:50 PM | link
taking the Giddy Up Bus to 'toga!
... said Rae on Jul 1, 2014 at 8:43 PM | link
Trip to the Beer Diviner!
... said Joe on Jul 2, 2014 at 10:51 AM | link