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Events at Millstream Brewery for 2012
January 28 Winterfest in Amana
May 5, 6 Maifest in Amana
June 2 BrewBQ & The Blues
June 30 Beer & Brat Festival
July 14 Tour de Brew
July 28 Brew-au-Beach Party
August 18 BrewBQ & The Blues
September 2 Festival of Iowa Beers
September 28, 29, 30 Oktoberfest in Amana
November 23 Tannenbaum Forest Opens in Amana
November 30, December 1, 2 Prelude to Christmas in Amana
Winterfest January 28
Stop by the brewery for a Bonfire & Marshmallow Roast at 2:00 pm. What goes better with beer than roasted marshmallows! A day of fun winter events both outdoors and indoors all over Amana.
Click here for more information on Winterfest
Maifest in Amana May 5 & 6
May 5th 1-5 pm Barry Boyce Band - Put on your dancing shoes for some German Polka Music! Enjoy Amana brats on the grill while you listen.
May 6th Noon - 4 pm Kurt Boche will be entertaining us all with his songs, stories and yodeling. Watch out he may win you over with his charm!
A ton of activities are going on all over town this weekend.
Click here for more information on Maifest in Amana.
BrewBQ & The Blues June 2 4-8 pm
Bring your lawn chair and sit back and enjoy the blues as The Tornadoes play in our outdoor biergarten. Tantalizing BBQ right off the grill will finish off this perfect afternoon. Of course there will be plenty of beer flowing to keep the event going too!
Beer and Brat Festival June 30 4 - 8 pm
Join us for our second annual Beer and Brat Festival. What goes better in a German village than brats & beer so we are teaming up the Amana Smokehouse & Meat Market to bring out some of the best available. Mini brats of several different flavors will be unveiled. We'll pair each mini brat up with a mini Millstream beer for you to have a true beer/food pairing German style. Beer & brat games will be going on so be ready to participate and have fun. Live music too from our local band - Let It Ride!
Tour de Brew July 14 10:30 am - 6 pm
Join us for our 12th annual bike ride at Millstream. This is definitely a "tour of de brews" and a great warm up ride for RAGBRAI! The event is a poker run with stops to pick up your poker cards. Of course there is a great microbrewed beer waiting for you at each stop. Root beer too! At the end of the ride the best poker hands will receive door prizes. Live music will be provided by Hard Barney from 2 - 6 pm in the biergarten. Begin and end at Millstream Brewery. Registration the day of the event at Millstream.
Click here for more information go to bikeiowa.com
Millstream Brew-aua Beach Party July 28 4 - 8 pm
Our 3rd annual beach party is under way! No beach you say, no problem we say. Bring your favorite beach chair to relax in. We'll provide the water (not the Millrace), beach balls, beach games and food right off the grill and live beach music played by our own Dogs On Skis. Should be another fun event, come join us for the festivities!
BrewBQ & the Blues August 18 4- 8 pm
A usual this is such a popular event that we do it twice each year! (Plus it's one of Teresa's favorites) Bring your lawn chair to relax in and enjoy the band and BBQ right off the grill.
8th Annual Festival of Iowa Beers Sept 2 1 - 5 pm
Tickets go on sale July 1st
Last year we had 15 Iowa craft breweries, 10 Iowa home brew clubs and 1200 people that enjoyed it all. We hope to have just as much fun this year too. Come down to the brewery to taste the beer beer that Iowa has to offer and meet the brewers who make this magical stuff come to life as they serve you. Live music will be provided by our own local band Silver Wings. They are a Beatles Tribute band and they're the best! Proceeds go the Juvenile Arthritis Foundation and the Iowa Brewers Guild.
Again this year we will be limiting attendance to 1200 people. Tickets will not be available for sale the day of the event this year (unless we have not sold out so don't take any chances). Tickets will be available for sale in advance only. More information on how to purchase tickets will be available shortly.
Oktoberfest Sept 28-30
Sept 28th
1:45 pm
Tapping of the Oktoberfest Beer Keg. Join us as we "Roll out the Barrel" at 1:45 at Millstream Brewery and follow the 1st Oktoberfest keg by wagon to the Festhalle. Then at 2:00 at the Festhalle the Burgermeister will tap the first Oktoberfest beer keg to kick off our weekend celebrations!
4-8 pm Dogs On Skis
We are going to kick off Oktoberfest at Millstream with these Cedar Rapids rockers in our outdoor biergarten. Brats will be ho off the grill and the Oktoberfest beer will be flowing!
Sept 29th
Noon - 4 pm
Live music. Brats will be hot off the grill and once again the Oktoberfest beer will be flowing all day!
5 - 9 pm
Live music with our local classic rock and roll band Let It Ride. We love our local boys and are thrilled to have them play for us! Come and enjoy.
Sept 30th
Noon - 4 pm
Enjoy the relaxing sounds of our own strolling yodeler as Kurt Boche walks through our biergarten and entertains everyone with his fun ways.
For a full listing of Oktoberfest events click here: Oktoberfest in Amana
Prelude to Christmas in Amana November 30, December 1 & 2
A nostalgic holiday celebration with special museum events, candlelit streets, entertainment and good cheer. Come see the Tannenbaum Forest and get some of your Christmas shopping done early.