I believe it is almost that time of year,
the 10th anniversary of the Tailspin
ALE Fest, winter warmer Beer fest.
Over 75 local and national American craft
breweries will be on tap for the event,
along with ten local food trucks.
Joining me now with more is cofounder
Trevor Craven's Brittany Donahue with
New Belgium Bells and Troy King with Six
Forks Burger Company. Congratulations,
10th anniversary guys, right?
Right, right. Like, I mean,
my goodness. I mean, talk about the
success of this through the years,
right? So we started in 2014 as year one.
We had about 1500 people out
that year and that was a sellout
for where we were at the time.
This year, we're going to expect
just under 5000 people and it'll
be sold out again this year.
Oh, my goodness.
What do you think is behind like
the popularity year after year
that people want to go to it?
And we look for a good excuse
in the winter for our festival.
There's not a lot going on right there.
There was some thought behind why would
we have an outdoor festival in winter?
But also we bring you know,
so many different things
to the to the festival.
So obviously beer is the center point.
It's the focus of the event.
We 85 breweries over 300 beers to sample.
But look at all this,
this the Drake, silent disco,
the food trucks, the flying axes,
the Green River Bourbon barrel beer bar.
Like there's so many other things.
It's more of a it's a social event.
Like this is a place where you want to go.
And be seen and have see your friends
and hang out and have fun for the day.
Well Brittany, you're one of the
most popular people here this
morning you brought the beer.
You didn't speak to the beer element of it.
You know like give us a sample
of what we can expect there.
What did you bring?
Well I always bring the party
with you and that's just I think
my favorite thing about tailspin.
And I've been to every year
of tailspin for this will be
the 10th year which is wild.
You can have you know your favorite
everyday standard and drink a fat
tire or you can try something kind
of new and wild and we have a a beer
that's made with lime and ginger.
That's aged in a bourbon barrel.
So you can try all sorts of.
We think of Kentucky bourbons, right?
But I feel like there's this growing feel
for it. Let's try this beer and this.
We're in that whole craft brewery scene
is growing and huge and everything.
And yeah, she's pouring drinks here.
And what are you pouring here?
So this is a new beer for us.
It's called fruit force. Fruit force.
Smell this beer. Smell. Smell it.
That's amazing. Ohh wow. Ohh.
Wow. It doesn't smell like it.
Doesn't smell like Hawaiian.
Punch it, smell it,
smell it, smell it, smell.
Try smell it.
Ohh might have some of that.
It's just, you know,
that yeah, absolutely
is not just, you know, kind of what you
think in your everyday logger drink.
There's so many different flavors and
a festival like this is a great way to
come out and try all these different
creative beers to get outside your space.
Try something different of course,
finding the perfect beer with the perfect,
perfect food. Of course,
we love having you on the show
before and we know you can cook
up a really great burger.
So what are you going to prepare
though for this festival?
Cheeseburger, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle.
We always do whatever,
how many patties we have,
it's always the double amount of cheese.
So it's got two slices of cheese,
one on the bottom, on the top.
This is a Maxwell St. Polish.
I'm from Chicago, so that's really popular.
Then we got a fried chicken
wings with Tai chili.
And then real quick we're going to
make the adult only breakfast burger.
And the reason why we call,
we call it adult only because
it's got chocolate bourbon on it.
So we're going to put some
special cheese on the top.
Feel so fancy. More cheese and egg?
Some bacon.
And then chocolate bourbon Ohio.
Chocolate bourbon. Who knew?
Who knew? Putting those two together.
And we don't cook the alcohol off,
so it's not for kids. Ohh.
Now I get it. Yes, yes.
Looks delicious. All right.
But are there tickets still
available for the people want to.
So you can get tickets at
tailspin.com or Evergreen liquors
locations will have tickets.
You can buy them there and
actually save some online fees.
Alright guys, thanks so much
for taking the time to come in.
I'm ready to eat.
We're ready to drink and you're going to
try that beer before you leave Detroit.
All right. So to get.
Your tickets now just head on
over to tailspinalefest.com.