Sidetrack gathers a few of its finest friends for a classy Cask Festival

Cask beer is dead. Long live cask beer.

If you still believe in the latter rather than the former, then we sure hope you snagged a ticket to this Saturday’s Alley Cask Festival at Sidetrack Brewing. As I sat down with co-owner Anne O’Neill and head brewer David Kimbell to talk all things cask, a text popped up to let us all know that the last tickets to this event had sold out.

So if you did not get a ticket, reading on will probably just make you sad. Then again, it might also inspire you to grab a ticket earlier next year.

“We’re planning on it being an annual (event),” Kimbell said.

Be brave and read on if you are without a ticket, or if you do have one, here is everything you need to know to best enjoy the festivities.

First off, I wanted to know just how long this event has been in planning.

“We’ve been talking about it for a couple years, and then COVID hit,” O

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