12th Annual Midwinter Brewfest

Join us on Sunday, February 22nd at the Milwaukee Ale House (233 North Water Street Milwaukee, WI 53202) as we help celebrate the 12th Annual Midwinter Brewfest!  We will be showing the film throughout the afternoon as part of the festivities. 

For more information, call the Milwaukee Ale House at 414-226-BEER!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

We hope that the season finds you well and warm!  Currently, we are in the midst of creating a new website, compiling your comments and suggestions from the screenings, and making a few editing changes to the film. 

If you want to obtain a copy of the current DVD, it is for sale at Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee and at Ale Asylum in Madison.

The Mad-town Madness

We will be showing 99 Bottles Documentary at the Orpheum Theatre on State Street this weekend! 

Each show will feature a pair of breweries who were in this film, and they will be hold a sampling for their products before hand!  That is right:

Free Beer!

Come early!  Check the SHOWS link for times.

Milwaukee Shows

We would like to send out a heartfelt thank you to the Times Cinema and our brewery sponsors for their part in making the first screenings of "99 Bottles Documentary" a rousing success!

If you have seen the movie and have not given us you thoughts yet, please do so by clicking the FEEDBACK link.  We need you thoughts to polish the film and get it ready for national release!

If you liked the show and would like a copy, there are only two ways to get one:

1)  They are being sold at shows.

2)  Go to Lakefront Brewery's Gift shop.

'Yes, there will be beer!'

All things considered, it seems to work out in the end!  Currently, we have set up two full weekends of shows in November for our official opening.  There will be two breweries doing tastings for each show, so 'Yes, there will be beer at the beer movie!'  Check the SHOW TIMES calendar for details on which breweries will be presenting each night.

Currently, the Milwaukee shows are official and the Madison shows are in the final stages of negotiation.

Tickets will be sold at the box office and online and if you were on the guest list for the last show, you are STILL on the guest list for this show.  You may redeem those tickets by calling or emailing the theatre in advance and they will set aside a ticket for you at will call.

Great Lakes Brew Fest

4,000 Beer Enthusiasts can't be wrong!  We will be crashing the party in Racine and we hope to run into you!  Our newly printed DVD can be found at the Lakefront tent and we will be present so that you can get your advanced copies!

Thank you!

The shows last week were a rousing success and we thank everyone who braved the roar of 100,000 Harley Riders to catch a show.  The last show at Cafe' Lulu and the show at Delafield were canceled due to logistic impossibilities.  If you showed up for either, we do apologize for your time.

There will be a premiere toward the end of the month, (consider the last week as preview shows.)  The details of this are pending.  Signup on our mailing list for details.

A special thanks to the following venues for hosting our shows:

• Cafe Lulu
• Comet Cafe'
• Delafield Brewhaus
• LIVE on North
• Milwaukee Ale House
• Paddy's Pub
• Romans' Pub
• Stonefly Brewery
• Sugar Maple
• Up and Under Pub
• Von Trier

A Million Tiny Shows!

For the week of Harleyfest, we have set up a large number of shows in various locations around the Milwaukee area. 

Check the schedule for times and locations, and sign up on the mailing list and we will send you the new locations and times as they are added.

Correction:  George.  Not Craig.

George Bluvas III is the brewmaster from Waterstreet Brewery.  He was shown as Craig at the showing last night, but in fact his name George!

Incorrect DVDs were aired and sold on WednesdayAugust 27 2008 with George's secret identity "Craig" being broadcast to the brewing community.  Having blown his witnesse protection cover name, we recalled all of the DVDs and have reprinted them! 

However...

... if you still have one, (you can tell because it does not bear the tiny "V2" on the left-hand side of the disk label), please contact us so that we may swap out the DVD.  Thank you!

The premiere...

Now that was not the performance that we had intended!  We are very sorry to let you down for the premiere, but let me address the most popular questions:

What happened?  The film is and was DONE!  We filmed it and edited it digitally, but when it came time to compress the final cut, it kept crashing halfway through the process.  By the time the premiere came about, it was simply too late come up with an alternative.

Did that ever happen before?  Nope!  We made many versions before this without incident.

When can we see it?  Next week during Harleyfest!  The list of locations will be up by Monday, and we will be adding to it periodically.

What about the Kiwanis?  Yeah,... half of nothing is a very small donation.  We will be working out something fantastic to help them out.  What exactly?  TBA.

99 Bottles invades the Great Taste of the Midwest

It was outstanding.  6000 people all trying to keep cool on a perfect Madison Saturday, and 99 Bottles Documentary was there to seize the opportunity to meet and great them all ... or a least as many as was humanly possible!  The experience was electrifing, with people from all over the states, even the world, all sampling the wares of some of the most talented breweries on the planet. 

Truly, a sight to behold!  For more information about event, visit the Great Taste's website.