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Beer Snob

a lifestyle magazine for beer lovers

A Special Event Edition

High Country
Beer Fest
High Country
Beer Fest
Sponsers

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equally fantastic beers. We had
paired cheese with wine before but
had never thought about pairing it
with beer. It was such a fantastic
experience, we drove the seventeen w w w. b e e r s n o b m a g a z i n e . c o m
miles from the Beer Fest to Banner T |336.736.8546
Elk, NC to visit Erick’s Cheese and F | 866.559.2920
Wine to buy some of the cheese we Content deadline for the Premiere
had just sampled to enjoy back at Issue (November 2010) of Beer Snob
home in Asheboro.
Magazine is October 20, 2010.
If you haven’t had the opportunity
to visit Erick’s in Banner Elk, it is an
awsome little shop and we would
strongly encourage you to pay them
a visit. They have over 100 gourmet PUBLISHER
cheeses, 68 different beers and over Dave Johnson
110 different wines in stock. They dave@beersnobmagazine.com
also have a variety of gourmet snacks
you can buy to go with the beer, wine ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
and cheese. Best of all, they are very Sherry B. Johnson
knowledgable and super nice. It’s not sherry@asheboromagazine.com
Dave Johnson like some of those hoity-toity places
Publisher you’ve probably stopped into where Editor
the owner made you feel stupid for Kirsten Gordon
not knowing what wine goes with editor@beersnobmagazine.com
Dear Readers, what cheese. In fact, Erick’s is just
the opposite. CREATIVE DIRECTOR

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But the best part of the day was
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eer Snob Magazine is meeting all the wonderful people that
a project that we are were at the Beer Fest for the same
working on here at reason we were. This special edition
Crown Harbor Markeing, of Beer Snob is a pictorial of the day’s
Inc. Currently we publish Asheboro fun and festivities. It is hard to single
Magazine, a publication for the out one beer that tasted better than
residents of the City of Asheboro. We another, or which band was the best, This month’s cover photo was
have been in the magazine business but my favorite “character” was the provided by Dave Johnson taken
for a long time (a little over 22 years) guy wearing a hat decorated with on location at the 2010 High
and we recently sold seven magazines hops. That being said, there were so Country Beer Fest in Boone, NC. If
we were publishing in the Southwest many fantastic people there you’d you would like to submit a photo
Charlotte and Raleigh areas. The sale have to try real hard not to have a or any other information to be
of these publications has given us the great time. And even then, I am featured in Beer Snob Magazine,
opportunity to pursue other projects. confident even the crankiest person please e-mail your files to photos@
In researching opportunities, we on the planet would have managed a
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a magazine that celebrates the local Finally, we want to extend a very
beer brewing industry. The idea of are 300 dpi and large enough to
special and heartfelt thanks to Brett
publishing a local magazine for craft Taubman and Jon Saken for the fill an 8 1/2 x 11 space.
beer lovers is an exciting prospect. tickets and hosting one of the best
As part of our research, we attended events we’ve ever attended. If you’ve
the 2010 High Country Beer Fest, in never been to the High Country Beer
Boone, North Carolina on September Fest, make sure it is on your calendar
4, 2010. for next year. This is an event not to Beer Snob Magazine is published monthly by
Crown Harbor Marketing, Inc. Any reproduction
Being beer lovers ourselves, we’ve be missed. or duplication of any part thereof must be done
been to other Beer Fests, but we found
this one to be especially fun. Not only with the written permission of the Publisher.
All information included herein is correct to the
did we taste some of the best local best of our knowledge as of the publication date.
Corrections should be forwarded to the Publisher

Dave
beers available, we aslo sampled
at the address above.
some sensational regional beers,
too. On top of the beer tastings, we Disclaimer: The paid advertisements contained
attended a seminar given by Erick’s within Beer Snob Magazine are not endorsed
Cheese & Wine where they paired Dave Johnson, Publisher or recommended by the Publisher. Therefore,
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some extraordinary cheeses with practices of these companies.

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Before
the Gates
Opened

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And
they’re
off...

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Let the
Festivities
Begin!

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“Beer is proof
that God loves us
and wants us to
be happy.”
-Benjamin Franklin

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