Colorado Beer Adventure Giveaway (Issue 24)

Everybody likes free stuff. Whether it’s “33% more extra!” in your shampoo bottles or a bonus pack of Toast Chee crackers falling out of a vending machine, free stuff rules. With this fact of life in mind, we’re happy to announce the Colorado Beer Adventure Giveaway!

We’ve partnered with some of our favorite companies in order to bring you a one-of-a-kind beer getaway that culminates in a trip to the 2016 Great American Beer Festival, one of the largest beer festivals in the world.

The best part? It’s super easy to enter. In fact, if you’re reading this and you have a Beer Connoisseur Premium Membership, congratulations, you’re already entered to win! If you have yet to purchase a Premium Membership, what are you waiting for?! It couldn’t be simpler. Follow this link and choose your subscription length. Not only will you be entered to win this rad giveaway, but you’ll also be able to access tons of terrific content that only Premium Members can view such as: our lovingly-crafted beer review, featuring upwards of 100 beers in each issue, our Brewer Q & As, in which the makers of high-scoring beers discuss their tremendous creations, recipes, interviews, news and much more!

The drawing will be held on August 5, 2016. Winners will be selected by random number generator, and contacted via the phone number or email address provided upon creating a Premium Member account. Winners will have 5 days to claim their prize before another winner is chosen. Now that the nitty-gritty is out of the way, let’s outline exactly what the prizes are.

A giveaway is only as good as the prizes being offered and the team behind them. In this case Zephyr Adventures is the organizer of the GABF trip, and our first partner for this giveaway.

Founded in 1997, Zephyr Adventures specializes in creating and organizing adventure travel vacations around the world. Many specialty hobbies are included with trips separated into numerous categories: Hiking & Trekking, Biking, Multisport, Skating and (most importantly) Food, Wine & Beer Adventures. If none of these sound appealing (though the last one certainly merits some thought), a private or custom adventure can be worked out with Zephyr.

All of these adventures are customized, fun and action-packed but still relaxing. Despite being guided group affairs, the experience isn’t too linear and exploration is applauded – what would a vacation be without some memorable random occurrences? As Zephyr’s website eloquently states: “We love being active on vacation as it is such an intimate way to see the world. Your chance of striking up a conversation with a local or discovering that hidden treasure is so much greater when you are on foot, bike, or skates. So whether you want to hike the Inca Trail, combine a safari with hiking and visits to wineries in South Africa, or bike through Tuscany we have something for you.”

With Zephyr Adventures at the helm, this trip is sure to be a thrilling excursion, but while they certainly know how to organize an adventure, someone needs to provide the liquid bliss to imbibe during this great getaway. Enter Boulder Beer Company.

In a craft beer city rife with competition, experimentation and heady brews, Boulder Beer manages to stand above the pack. Whether it’s a sessionable tropical-leaning Pale Ale brewed in collaboration with a member of The String Cheese Incident, a winter warmer seasonal named after a homicidal flightless bird (Killer Penguin), or a new IPA brewed with blood oranges (Pulp Fusion), Boulder is ahead of trends and continues to make terrific beers that are popular wherever they’re available. Boulder Beer is sponsoring our Colorado Beer Adventure Giveaway as the provider of the airfare.

Boulder Beer Company is advertised as “Colorado’s oldest craft brewery,” with the first batches being brewed in 1979. While those beers aren’t quite the same today as they were 37 years ago, many new brands have been debuted over the years including Buffalo Gold, Shake Chocolate Porter and Hazed – an unfiltered, hopped-up Pale Ale – allowing Boulder to stay at the forefront of Colorado’s thriving craft beer scene.

While this once-in-a-lifetime trip is the Grand Prize in this giveaway, various smaller prizes are available and will once again be awarded via random number generator. These prizes are also provided by some of our favorite beer-themed businesses and programs.

BeerCapMaps.com has created one of the most finely-crafted ways to house those limitless amounts of bottle caps you have lying around in a beautiful and hand-crafted map. Check out our review of the company’s wooden Beer Cap Map of the contiguous United States here, but suffice it to say that you’ll want to keep those bottle caps in better shape if you win this beauty.

For our giveaway, BeerCapMaps.com is providing two large maps (each with a value of $75) to two lucky winners, and two coaster sets (each with a value of $24) to two other lucky winners. All of BeerCapMaps’ products are well-made and easy to display – turning old, dusty bottle caps into a colorful work of art on your wall.

Our final partner is The Original Craft Beer Club, who will be providing five 1-month shipments to five lucky winners. The Original Craft Beer Club is a classic “beer-of-the-month” club, touted as one of the first to ever exist. Winners will receive 12 beers in four different style (3 of each style), with themes varying by month. This beer mail is valued at $39, but five winners will take home a 1-month shipment for free!

Of course, we also have some swag to provide and will be giving away 10 free hats and shirts to other prize-winners.

All in all, this is a massive prize pool highlighted by the grand prize: An all-expenses-paid trip to America’s greatest beer festival, the GABF. Simply by becoming a Premium Member, you joined the sweepstakes.

This giveaway is our way of saying “thank you.” We appreciate your patronage and will continue to add value to your commitment with us by offering this impressive beercentric trip and others like it. 

Cheers, and thank you for being a Premium Member. Good luck!

(Check out all the rules and fine print here.)