Of Ale and History Festival at Belle Grove Saturday May 13th 2023 Kristen Laise and Paige Ulevitch

Once again, it's time to gather up your best friends and come to Belle Grove in Middletown for a full day of music, craft beer, ciders and FUN! Kristen Laise and Paige Ulevitch with Belle Grove fill us in on the details of this year's festival!

Episode Transcript

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And here on our community hotline.I've got two very special people. Kristen
Layze is with Historic bell Grove,she's the executive director there, and Paige
at Yulevich. Paige, can youtell us what your title is? My
title is the Festival's coordinator. IntoI'm the one who's doing all the organizing
for beer Fest. All right,great, So Kristen, let's start with

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you. It's back again, baby, the twenty eighth year of Ale and
History beer festell Grove twenty eight yearsnow, and this thing has been around
because it's so fun. I loveit. It's one of the ones that
I look forward to every year.You've you've made it a little different.
So the event this year is onSaturday, May thirteenth, and we have

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thirteen breweries coming serving craft beer andcider. And we've got some folks here
in Virginia right actually here in Middletownand Strasbourg and Winchester, but we also
got some other Virginia breweries and we'reeven going as far as Salisbury, Maryland
and Philadelphia this year to bring insome new faces. Never been to the
festival before. Oh you know me, I do love trying new beers.

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That's a fun part of the festivalpage you are re expecting this year.
So this year we have our localfavorites who have been coming for several years.
Back Room Brewery, Box Office Brewery, Vabrissa. Everybody around here probably
has known and visited them. Wealso have a couple of new breweries that
will be joining for the first time, Evil Genius and This. We also

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have Evolution Craft Brewing Company, whichis a great new brewer we have to
offer. Oh I love all ofthose. You know. The thing is
they bring different kinds of beers,so you can walk around and taste different
things. And there's more than justbeer, right, That's something you guys
have focused on over the years.There's something pretty much for everyone. We
do have a couple of ciders thisyear. Winchester Cider Works is going to

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be here as well as Bulldrock.Now, if we wanted to get our
tickets, can we get them inadvance or is it better to just wait
and get them at the gate.You're gonna want to get your tickets in
advance because it's you get a fivedollar discount, so it's thirty dollars if
you buy MinID Fans and You cando that four different ways. You can
go to our website at Bell Groveb elg r o V dot org and

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that is no charge to you.We say it's thirty dollars. You will
pay thirty dollars no fees for buyingonline through our PayPal. You can go
to area handymart locations around Winchester andthey are selling the tickets there. You
can stop into the Winchester Frederick CountyVisitors Center on the edge of the Shenandoah
University campus and they only take cashand check, but they're open every day

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where you can stop into our museumshop and pay there with that ticket in
hand, that gets us what So, the thirty dollars is going to get
you a souvenir glass, which oursponsor is Key Construction, and you're going
to get eight tastings and then youcan purchase additional tastings. Right right after
two o'clock, come to the redand white striped tent and you can buy
more tickets. You do have somemusic this year too, right page we

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do. We have Robbie Lyman who'sgoing to be doing the first set at
about eleven and then he'll play intil round two. After that, we
have Misha Herron coming for the firsttime and she's going to start around two
thirty and she'll play until the endof the festival. Great music, incredible
beer and all your friends. Whatmore could you ask for? Right now?
There is one more really exciting newthing this year, which is catching

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a ride. Thanks to a generoussponsor, Five Star Show Spurring is going
to be offering free shuttle rides fromthe Kernstown area at Skanks Parking Lot and
that will come down to Middletown andback and that'll run about once an hour.
You do need to sign up aheadof time though and make a reservation
and you can do that on Billgross website. Oh I like that,

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sign up in advance so you canget a little more crazy with your crazy
friends, Kristen. Anything else.Yeah, two more things. We're going
to have great food trucks, sothey'll be food available. We've got a
whole bunch of merchandise vendors because don'tforget Mother's Days the next day, but
we can hook you up with somegreat gift ideas from our vendors. And
if you're not feeling like you wantto drink that day, or you're under

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twenty one. You can get atadmission ticket to come and enjoy the vendors
and enjoy the music for fifteen dollarsand that's at the Gator. In advance
you get two complimentary non alcoholic beveragesfor that ticket price. Too. Well,
I cannot wait. It is reallyone that I look forward to every
single year. We've had some rain, we've had some sunshine, We've always
though, always had a great time. So ladies, I will see you

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this Saturday, Belle Groves of Aleand History Festival. Find out more at
our website Shanatoa Country q ONO twodot com or at b E L L
E g R o v E dotorg