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Ohio Brew Week is a festival held annually in Athens, Ohio. The week-long festival showcases craft beers from over 26 different breweries located in Ohio. During this week, the different types of beer from those breweries is served to customers at 35 different venues in the local Athens area. Throughout the week there are events and competitions centered on the craft beers that festival goers can participate in. Events are daily and consist of concerts, barbecue cook-outs, multiple happy hours, dinners, "meet the brewer", pool tournaments, tastings, golf outings, karaoke, corn hole tournaments, trivia, a haunted tour, and other activities.
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Ohio brew week 2015
Dates
Ohio Brew Week begins the second week in July and goes for a full week with the last day showcasing a festival called "Boogie on the Bricks". This past 2013 year, OBW's seventh annual festival began on Friday, July 12, 2013 and ended on Saturday, July 20, 2013.
This coming years OBW dates start on July 10 an ends on July 18, 2015.
Locations
The Ohio Brew Week is always held in Athens, Ohio. Within the community there are over 35 businesses/facilities that take part in serving and making the craft brews available to the public. Places that serve the week's advertised beers are:
• The Ohio University Inn & Conference Center
History
The first annual Ohio Brew Week was held in Athens, Ohio in July 2006. Since then the week has been celebrated every year with this past 2014 Brew Week being the ninth annual.
Ohio Brew Week Homebrew Competition
Each year goers of Ohio Brew Week are invited to enter the OBW Homebrew Competition where participants may enter their own home-brewed beer to be judged and ranked among other participant's brew entries. The winners of this competition are announced at the Boogie on the Bricks celebration on the final day of OBW.
Athens Cuisine Showcase
The Athens Cuisine Showcase is an event during Ohio Brew Week, held at Abrio's Brick Oven, where people come to sample other people's cuisine entries. The entries must be made with or served with one of the week's craft beers. Entries are sampled in five different categories, and all proceeds from the event go to benefit the Jon Sparhawk. Memorial Scholarship & Community Fund
Brew BQ Cook-Off
The Brew BQ Cook-Off is an event of OBW held at the Athens Train Depot Area. This is event is one that invites participants to compete in multiple different competitions involving barbecue and craft beers. Some examples of the contests held this past 2011 OBW are "Best Ohio Craft Beer Based Bar-B-Q Sauce", "Best Sauce 'In Show'", "Best Use of Budweiser Genuine BBQ Sauce", "Best Vegetarian BBQ", "Best BBQ Chicken", and "Best BBQ Pork".