Ohio Brew Week

Jon Sparhawk Memorial Scholarship & Community Fund

Ohio Brew Week celebrates Ohio's diverse microbrews during the weeklong festival. You can enjoy more than 76 craft beers from 23 Ohio microbreweries, all in one easy-to-get around city, relaxing Athens.

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This year's Ohio Brew Week Homebrew Competition will be sanctioned by the AHA-BJCP sanctioned competition program. For more information on the competition, judge and steward opportunities click here. For a list of styles and guidelines, visit the BJCP site. The competition will include around 60 styles in 20 categories.

Bring out your best BBQ sauce and slather it on your favorite meat or vegetables, incorporate an Ohio microbrew, and you're in the game for the Ohio Brew Week BBQ Champ. More details...

Pull out your apron and prepare your favorite recipe with an Ohio microbrew and enter the 2nd OBW Cooking Competition. Great prizes! Get your tickets to this sell-out event of fabulous beer-flavored foods. Limited seating. Tuesday, July 15, 6 p.m., Toscano's. More details...

The OBW Brew Choo Choo

All Aboard for the train ride of your life! Ride the historic Hocking Valley Scenic Railway while sampling select microbrews. Homebrewers, this is the Homebrew Choo Choo just for you--appetizers, homebrews & music. More details...

Bob Skilnik is an alumnus of Chicago’s Siebel Institute of Technology, the oldest brewing school in the U.S.; author of nine food and drink-related books, including Beer & Food: An American History, and a contributor to trade journals, magazines, and newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune's "Good Eating" section. He has appeared on ABC’s The View, FOX News and ESPN2. While at Ohio Brew Week July 17, 18 and part of the 19th, Bob will talk about: “Why There Might Be A Beer In Your Refrigerator Today---How Beer Left The Saloon And Became A Household Guest,” “American Beer History---Urban Legends That Just Won't Go Away.”

Ray Daniels, author of Designing Great Beers, and Director of the Cicerone Certification Program in Chicago, will be the 2008 Ohio Brew Week keynote speaker. A brewing industry veteran, Daniels will entertain with talks of beer & food, beer styles, the business of beer during his two-day visit. He will be speaking on the theme of “Beer Around the World: We’re not in Kansas anymore, are we bartender?” More details...

"Since the 2006 OBW, Brew fests everywhere have a new standard of excellence. The standard four hour tasting session with large crowds standing in line for samples just can not stand up to the relaxed, socially engaging, and entertaining presentation by the City of Athens."

— Jim Leverentz, owner of Leeners "You Make It Kits"