Drawing: Tickets for Drink Albany 2016

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The Capital Craft Beverage Trail is bringing back the Drink Albany event October 15 at Quackenbush Square in Albany. It's a celebration of the growing local craft beverage scene, with drinks, food, entertainment, and games.

We have a pair of VIP tickets for the event and we're giving them away. To enter the drawing, please answer this question in the comments:

If you could make up your own Capital Region-theme beer/cider/spirt, what it would and what would you name it?

It could be something that's actually possible -- like, say, cider from the tree in your backyard -- or something more fanciful and out there. We'll draw one winner a random. That person gets the pair of tickets.

Drink Albany is Saturday October 15 from 2-6 pm at Quackenbush Square. Tickets are available online. General admission tickets are currently $15 until September 30, after that they're $20. There's also a $5 designated driver ticket.

VIP tickets are $50 each. And they include a special cocktail session with open bar from noon-2 pm that day in the Albany Visitors Center courtyard.

Important: All comments must be submitted by 5 pm on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 to be entered in the drawing. 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 noon am on Thursday and must respond by noon on Friday, September 30.

Comments

Corruption Ale - a pale ale with a kick back

The Ziti Wagon - red sauce bloody mary type thing

The Drunk Donut - A mix of hard cider and some kind of cinnamon sugar vodka.

The 838: C.H. Evans Capital Light layered over Druthers Winter Warmer.

Nipper Ale!

Actual was able to make some great mojitos this summer from the mint in my backyard. Might as well name it after one of my favorite places in the area: The Buckingham Pond Mojito.

I'm actually planning on making a Graf (http://darktower.wikia.com/wiki/Graf) using local cider, Valley Malts grain, and probably some homegrown hops. Not sure what to call it, but seems to just about sum up a Fall Capital Region beverage.

Cascade Hop and Porter Ales

Applecart - Apple Cider (regular, not hard/carbonated) with cinnamon whiskey, apple brandy, cinnamon stick garnish. Served warm.

Beaver Tail Ale

Leaf Peeper Porter - a rich, malty dark beer nicely balanced by a touch of local apple cider (pre-fermentation for nice dry cider notes), ginger, cinnamon, and locally grown hops to brighten everything up. Basically, a rich dark beer finished with a nice apple-y fall crispness, perfect for fall in the Capital Region!

State Street Cider® - A Capitol idea™

Capital City Cider- It would be a hard cider made with a variety of apples from several local orchards.

Five One Beet: 1 part locally-grown beet juice from the co-op with fresh herbs mixed with 1 part Nine Pin Ginger Cider

Stephentown Stout - a robust, comforting dark beer in honor of the small town that hosts some of the best events of the summer

Nip o' Nipper. Ironweed bourbon + Nine Pin cider. A wedge of apple as a garnish.

Cuomo Corruption Cider- made with the Apples Adam and Eve ate to corrupt society

An unfiltered sour apple wheat beer. None of that artificial sweet apple garbage. Call it Capital Pucker.

I don't know what style it would be, but it would be small in stature, quirky, and absolutely delicious. And everyone would complain about it. I would call it "The Smallbany Paradox".

I would name my new brew "Ungovernable Ale" the STate of New York's Mind

How about The 518 giant bloody mary, with juice from local August tomatoes and locally-made vodka, garnished with a Jack Burger, cider donut, Mike's hot dog, and bread from Perecca's Bakery.

It would be called "sugar snatch". A nice refreshing hard cider with an organic sugar rim.

Robert Burns - a scotch ale with an image of the statue on the label

we need more perry! So I suggest Hudson Perry.

How about a Thatcher pale ale made with wild flowers from the park and hops from Indian ladder to raise money for Thatcher park.

Politician's Gose To Jail

Albany Apple Cider Sangria - White wine, apple brandy, apple cider, club soda with chopped up crisp apples

Chestnuts in the Park- a chestnut and clove flavored cider. I remember picking them in Washington Park when I was small.

Riverwater IPA-
A rusty, cloudy, unflitered, pungent IPA. Indescribable mouthfeel.

Knickerbocker beer and ale. Since we no longer have the Knick Arena...there actually was a Knickerbocker Brewery long ago, it sold out to Rheingold.

Albany Pisco Sour, in honor of the Egg.

Death Before Breakfast - A rich coffee stout made from Deathwish Coffee with hints of cinnamon and apple

Able-ny Ale - the ale you're only able to get in the summer when the bars have breathing room.

New York's Capit-Ale, a classic American Pale Ale

I'd make a multicolored martini from all local spirits with a dash of cider and call it the Lark-tini, celebrating the diversity of Lark Street and the Center Square neighborhood.

It would be great to revive the Hedrick's or Beverwyck brand names for a local beer. Not sure of the legality of that...

Pineapple ale

Indian Ladder Ale

APA: Ale-bany Pale Ale!

Capital-tini: a chilled cocktail to sip on while ginning up support for new legislation.

albany is eggcelent:
capitol ale

I actually really enjoyed the Pear Hard Cider I tried at Indian Ladder Farms last weekend, so yeah more of that.

Pine Hills Porter...made with coco nibs and chiles

Hudson River Float---For everyone dairy free---Coconut Ice cream and Malibu

The Trojan Horse

Rum, ginger beer, mint, simple syrup, in a liter mug.

Tastes great, goes down easy, and surprises with you with how awful the result is.

Much like an evening in Downtown Troy.

Upstate Hard Cider - made from all different types of apples picked in the upstate area!

Egg-Nog!

A robust death wish coffee stout called NippertownNightlife

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