Green Flash Brewing Treasure Chest Beer + Food Fest 2017
Green Flash Brewing Co is hosting Treasure Chest Beer + Food Fest 2017 on Sunday, August 27th 2016 from 12pm – 5pm. This event is the brewery’s largest and most anticipated rare beer and food-pairing event of the year. For the 7th year in a row, Treasure Chest Fest benefits local breast cancer charity: Susan G Komen San Diego, and all proceeds from ticket sales are donated to the charity. The ‘fest is now a San Diego tradition – an exceptional celebration of craft beer and food including hands-on culinary demos.
This year, the ‘fest will be taking over the entire parking lot, tasting room, and production facility of Cellar 3 in Poway – allowing attendees the opportunity to sample from an exceptional lineup of their rare, specialty, one-off, and barrel aged beers from Green Flash, Cellar 3, and Alpine Beer Company. Green Flash has hand-selected some of their favorite local restaurants to develop (and donate) thoughtful food pairings to go with each beer.
Treasure Chest 2017 | IPA with Passion Fruit
The event also marks the national release of the brewery’s popular Treasure Chest beer –an IPA with passion fruit. Every year since 2011, Green Flash introduces a new Treasure Chest beer to benefit breast cancer charities. This year’s offering is a bright and tropical IPA featuring: Green Bullet, Warrior, Citra, Cascade, and Simcoe hops. This year’s participating restaurants will offer up one dish, which they have developed to perfectly pair with a select rare beer.
- Bottega Americana
- Carnitas Snack Shack
- Urge American Gastro Pub
- Tom Ham’s Lighthouse
- Brothers Provisions
- The Crab Hut
- Decoy Dockside Dining
- Alpine Beer Company Pub
- Nomad Donuts
- Green Flash Gastro
Rare beer list:
Ideal Sauvage – Belgian-style dark ale aged in red wine barrels with brettanomyces- Natura Morta with Blood Orange – Wild ale brewed with apices aged in red wine barrels with blood orange
- Brett Coast IPA – India Pale Ale brewed with brettanomyces
- Dry-hopped Fresco Sauvage with Nelson – Dry-hopped brett fermented saison ale with Nelson hops
- Lustrous Frumento with Luxardo Cherries – Black ale aged in bourbon barrels with Luxardo Cherries
- Natura Morta Peach with Thyme and Basil – Wild ale brewed with spices aged in red wine barrels with peach, thyme, and basil
- Neapolitan Willy Vanilly – Wheat ale with vanilla, cocoa & Strawberry
- Spanish Trampoline – Hop-bursted IPA
- Flashionably Late – Dry-hopped saison-style ale
- Tropical DNA – Hazy, NEIPA
- Baja Tart – Sour Wheat Ale
- Fruity Beach – Saison-style Ale brewed with mango and plum
- California Export – Export Lager with American hops
- The Albino – Ale with coffee and cocoa
- Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA – Double IPA
- Double Stout with Oak and Vanilla – Imperial Stout with oak spirals and vanilla beans
- Dry-hopped Sea to Sea – Dry-hopped Zwickel lager
- GFB with Blackberry and Ginger – Blonde Ale with blackberry and ginger
- Sea to Sea with Watermelon – Zwickel Lager with watermelon
- Treasure Chest with Guava – IPA with guava and passion fruit
- West Coast IPA with Habaneros – Double IPA with habaneros
- Willy with Lemons – Lemonade-style wheat ale
- Jibe with Mango and Tangelos – Session IPA with mango and tangelos
Behind the Craft Educational Presentations
Green Flash has enlisted local craft purveyors to join the event and each will host an educational 30-minute demo throughout the day, to touch on the art of their culinary specialties. Demos are slated as follows:
- Ironside Fish & Oyster
- Venissimo Cheese
These demos will take place throughout the day of the event, with space for 50 guests per session (first-come basis).
New This Year
Meet the Brewers hosted by SD Beer Talk
Brewmaster, Erik Jensen and the crew will be on site for an interactive Q & A session, hosted by SD Beer Talk Radio. The popular craft beer podcast will be broadcasting live from the fest.
Live Music
This year’s event will feature local bands, Brawley and the The Sleepwalkers who will entertain the crowd on the outdoor stage, presented by DoSD.
Treasure Chest Homebrew Contest
Green Flash hosting their first-ever Treasure Chest Homebrew Contest, and has over 30 entrants. Local homebrewers are invited to enter their best IPA brew to be reviewed by an expert panel of judges. The contest winner will get the chance to brew with the Green Flash team on the pilot system, and have their winning IPA served in the Mira Mesa tasting room. The winners will be announced at the festival.
Games and Activities
This year’s fest will feature lots of cool-down space as well as a variety of fun activities and games options including a dunk tank (where you can dunk a brewer), caricature illustrations by Jorge Pacheco Caricature and more.
Festival Marketplace
Green Flash is hand-selecting some of the best in local San Diego craft vendors to join the party this year! Fest goers can shop at the Treasures Chest marketplace while they enjoy fest food and drink. By participating, all vendors will donate to Komen for the Cure San Diego.
Dress Up!
This year’s ‘fest brings back the tropical Hawaiian Luau theme. So, grab your best Tiki attire. Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts and retro-inspired Hawaiian kitsch attire is encouraged.
Tickets
PRE-SALE: $45 until the day-of the festival
- Access to festival
- Unlimited beer
- 10 food pairing tasters
- Commemorative tasting glass
Designated Driver (food-only) ticket: $25
- Access to festival
- No beer, but beer tokens can be purchased for $3-$5 each
- 10 food pairing tasters
- Commemorative tasting glass
AT THE DOOR (if available as space is limited): $55
*All photos provided by Green Flash Brewing
About The Treasure Chest Program:
Established in 2011 by Green Flash Co-Founder and breast cancer survivor Lisa Hinkley, Treasure Chest is an annual fundraising program to raise money for breast cancer charities. Each year, the brewery releases a limited-edition beer and hosts events from coast to coast. The program has raised over $330,000 for Prevent Cancer at the national level as well as regionally for Susan G Komen San Diego and Susan G Komen Tidewater (Virginia Beach, VA).
For more information on Susan G. Komen San Diego, please visit their:
WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM
For more info on Green Flash Brewing Co.:I remember reading somewhere that cigarette and candy automats were in place by the 1930’s, and by the time World War II rolled around, vending machines were raking in $600 million, an vardenafil cost astronomical amount considering that most of the candy they stocked sold for a penny. They get respitecaresa.org order cheap levitra aroused and start the foreplay to get into the real play in the bedroom. If we talked about the United Kingdom, and many other European countries because both the cialis cipla sexes face issues in keeping every one of the variables said above as a result of the hectic working hours, high pace movement of life schedules, excessive depression and the continuous follow up of unhealthy and boredom period of time. This touch viagra online helps you relieve pain and along with it produces a relaxation response.
Be sure to follow us on our social media and join the conversation with great people around great beers. 
