Want Big Ass Beer Fest tix?

Got our hands on a pair of tickets to this weekend's Big Ass Beer Fest, which'll bring together 50+ high-ABV beers (think imperial, think barleywines, thing doubletriplequadruple IPAs) this Saturday at Starlight Ballroom.

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Want Big Ass Beer Fest tix?

POSTED: Monday, January 16, 2012, 2:10 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Contests | Food Events

Got our hands on a pair of tickets to this weekend's Big Ass Beer Fest, which'll bring together 50+ high-ABV beers (think imperial, think barleywines, think doubletriplequadruple IPAs) this Saturday at Starlight Ballroom (460 N. Ninth St.). You want? All you need to do: Between right now and noon tomorrow, January 17, leave a ONE-SENTENCE COMMENT on this post convincing us why we should give these tix to you. We'll select our fave response and toss the tix — $45 in advance, $55 day-of — your way. Best of luck.

UPDATE [3:45 p.m.]: Congrats to Meal Ticket commenter emilyk, who pulls the tix with this response: "Desperately chasing BrewDog Sink the Bismarck dragon, stuck in agonizing black hole of ABV-quest-fruitlessness — please send help ASAP (aka two tickets to this weekend's Big Ass Beer Fest)." You got it chief. Happy dragon-chasing!

Posted by Drew Lazor @ 2:10 PM Permalink | 24 comments

Comments (24)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:43 PM, 01/17/2012

Nothing better than getting day drunk on high-ABV brews.

— ddeblasi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:55 PM, 01/17/2012

Because I'm a broke law student with no job prospects who, therefore, needs a beer more than anyone else.

— nicolemarie03

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:50 PM, 01/17/2012

I'm a national volunteer with AmeriCorps, and while I like serving my fellow man, I also enjoy drinking beer; incidentally, there is an implicit incongruency because I'm living on "welfare" and unable to afford the beverage I love to drink.

— alex1989L

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:48 PM, 01/17/2012

pity me: my wonderful boyfriend doesn't drink at ALL (not a sip of booze), so I will take my best gal friend to drink many big ass beers!

— jenbichvy

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:44 PM, 01/17/2012

A little late but I figured I'd try anyways:

-I just moved from sunny FL to cold, murderous Killadelphia (20 murders, 15 days) and am in DIRE need of a drunken rampage, as I fear my alcohol tolerance is quickly diminishing (since I don't get to go out every night of the week anymore), and my small internship stipend barely covers my train pass.

— AleaZ

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:22 AM, 01/17/2012

I have a small ass but beer will make it bigger.

— jarmstr

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:48 AM, 01/17/2012

I really want to take my dad for his birthday! He's a big ass beer buff but has never been to a festival; this would mean the world to him. Daddy-daughter debauchery at it's finest.

— jmd9013

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:38 AM, 01/17/2012

Desperately chasing BrewDog Sink the Bismarck dragon, stuck in agonizing black hole of ABV-quest-fruitlessness -- please send help ASAP (aka two tickets to this weekend's Big Ass Beer Fest).

— emilyk

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:01 AM, 01/17/2012

This transplant from New York needs those tickets so I can finally prove once and for all - via photographic evidence - to my fellow New Yorkers that their town is NOT a beer town, Philly is indeed, and that they better take heed.

— phishyeel

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:35 AM, 01/17/2012

I don't get paid enough.

— klinton2

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:21 PM, 01/16/2012

I am gluten intolerant and haven't had a beer in almost a decade but would break the fast (and ail) for those tickets.

— redsonya75

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:49 PM, 01/16/2012

With these big ass tickets in hand, my big ass will drink like a big ass without acting like a big ass.

— mwhensley1

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:00 PM, 01/16/2012

Please choose me because I'm a beer worshiper/collector who is always broke as hell and has never been able to go to one of these shin-digs.

— misslilacs

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:51 PM, 01/16/2012

Because I am an urbane, refined gentleman who can appreciate the sort of high-society event whose sophistication and dignity can only be conveyed by the cartoon image of an intoxicated jackass.

— IReadABookOnce

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:49 PM, 01/16/2012

My big ass loves beer!!

— rmileto

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:54 PM, 01/16/2012

My brother brews beer in the carpeted guest bedroom of his home in Pennsauken.

— ahaeg

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:48 PM, 01/16/2012

i'd probably come up with a better/funnier response after an afternoon of high gravity drinking...

— alyssalea

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:29 PM, 01/16/2012

studying for pre-boards and exams. in major need to make my liver a bit happier !

— kho

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:00 PM, 01/16/2012

I'd love to give these tickets to my beer-loving boyfriend as a late Christmas present, because I was a little cheap this year :/ And because we both love you guys at City Paper!

— tanyah

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:59 PM, 01/16/2012

For sale. Two brews. Never open.

— AndrePacheco

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:44 PM, 01/16/2012

I'm a happy drunk.

— daner92

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:27 PM, 01/16/2012

Nevermind what I previously posted, give the tickets to mason714, their reason is better and I didn't get the first post after all.

— ECdOc

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:25 PM, 01/16/2012

Give the tickets to me because I am a homebrewer and beer enthusiast that got the first post! :)

— ECdOc

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:23 PM, 01/16/2012

My wife wants to take her older brother who loves beer as a rememberance to there father who passed away a year ago on 1/21 as he was a beer lover and would love to see them together celebrating his life at a beer fest.

— mason714

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