Tag: Beer Festivals
Since we last wrote, it’d an understatement to suggest that only a lot has happened. It’s been 3 years since we added a new story here, lol, so while our startup storytelling has been ultra light, our remarkable founders continue building on all fronts. As we curate the story of FliteBrite, Sinclair has also fired up a cool community initiative (Frontier Coworking). McDougal hosts a 100+ episode podcast, keeps making a ruckus within his wild museum, and now has a second book—Brewed From Within: Energy for the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle—on bookshelves nationwide. Davidson still builds ideas into reality through manufacturing and the co-founding team remains disciplined in always having fun.
FliteBrite is now a 12+ year old quest. Can you believe that?! After the pandemic put tasting rooms and beer festivals on ice, we’ve spent the past few years wrinkling back out around North America. Our beer festival app remains fresh and activate in cool places like Iowa, Maine, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Minnesota, Washington, and we’re back in California this weekend!
We’re going, going… back, back… to Cali, Cali 🎶
To peek under our hood, the California Brewers Festival is a cool example of how our partnerships can thrive. The FliteBrite brewfest app is back on tap this Saturday, so let’s use this hoppy client story to support this friendly company update. Ok, so we’ve enjoyed collaborating with the California Brewers Festival since 2023. Each year, they bring their Brewfest together and we curate a digital companion for their long-standing beer festival in Sacramento, California. Our simple system makes everything a breeze, so now we just have fun going with green lights, catching up as friends, activating the efficient tech stack, and making it easy to showcase the tasty art that everyone will be pouring at their annual brewfest. Their craft beer community, likes so many fantastic events, unites 50-75 breweries for a good causes and in this case, they have done so the past 30 years! Wanna see our brewfest app in action? Poke around http://FliteBrite.com/CalBrewfest to taste the #CalBrewfest app and as you can imagine, over time, the real-time attendee data reveals cool insights for endless storytelling.
We’ve crafted a cold tool for smart event organizers and brewers sharing their delicious creations within a community that cares. If you’re hosting beer festivals and want a cool twist to save time, we are open for growth and always enjoy meeting a new friend—let’s chat.
Along with a handful of events nationwide, our electronic serving system remains in the wings and will never stop refilling wonder. We build sophisticated with long-term IP strategies and healthy cash flow. We’re three friends with complimenting superpowers and a clean cap table. We get to build first in line, the front & center of craft beer, but also wine, cheese, and all that is fine dining. As we often joke, our customer discovery has sure been tasty. Cheers to all who have been a part of this long-term quest! Let’s keep playing to see what happens next.
Caaalifornia Looooove 🎶
Our beer festival app was back on tap at another awesome brewfest last weekend. This was our first event in California, which is a tasty addition to other events we support in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, and Maine. We collaborated with event organizers who were looking for something fresh for the 29th annual California Brewers Festival.
Brewers from throughout California were introduced to our slick vendor portal for the first time. Feedback was fantastic, as we heard many of them share how easy it was to craft their menu in minutes. Breweries, cideries, wineries, and distilleries all looked sharp, while attendees got to see all that was being poured. After gates opened, beer lovers had fun tracking a few favorites and organizers appreciated the creative support our team provided every step of the way.
“This new thing seems cool!” -Touchstone Brewing, Sacramento
Hit http://FliteBrite.com/CalBrewfest to taste the #CalBrewfest app in action. Our team had fun showcasing this beer festival through @FliteBrite on Instagram and we hope you enjoy sipping on our data-driven festival summary that celebrates all our new friends brewing magic in California.
Hosting a beer festival? Let’s chat.
We deliver good vibes.
Yes, our friendly team serves up the best beer festival app in the market, a data-driven way to understand the taste profiles of customers in taprooms, and a patented electronic serving system, but the crafted dedication our customers FEEL, is what makes FliteBrite remarkable.
Your team will be delighted in the time you save, new profit channels unlocked, and savvy support delivered to those you seek to serve. The peace of mind that comes with collaborating with our fun, creative, and experienced team makes a partnership with FliteBrite a key ingredient that ignites more freedom of expression for professionals thirsty for what’s next. Let’s chat.
The inaugural TAP 2022 Brewfest celebrated innovation as 44 Minnesota breweries poured close to 200 different craft beers and hard seltzers.
Hosted in Shakopee, this community-driven event started something special. 750+ thirsty attendees enjoyed perfect weather and this well organized beer festival. Everyone had fun and as you can see in our festival summary, attendees used the TAP 2022 app to track more than a few favorites in our beer festival app. As a tasty bonus, Otso Cycles gave away a sick gravel bike to our Best of Fest winners, Kinney Creek Brewery from Rochester! Special thanks to the City of Shakopee and all our new friends brewing innovation throughout Minnesota. Cheers to our latest Best of Fest winner, enjoy #TAP2022 highlights below, and we’ll see everyone back in Minnesota soon!
RUN A BEER FESTIVAL? LET’S CHAT.
We’ve added a fresh feature to our beer festival app!
Sponsor spotlights allow event organizers to highlight partners who understand the value of endless eyeballs that our brewfest app attracts before, during, and after an event. This dynamic feature gives our clients full control of how many sponsors to showcase and where they land within the app. Knowing how valuable this placement is, we’ve literally given event organizers a fast way to cover the cost of our technology and we’re thrilled to see how progressive event organizers are using the sponsor spotlights to create all-new revenue channels!
Click over to the beer festival app page to see how this slick feature pairs with all the other things that make our dedicated beer festival app the most powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use solution for events of any size. When your team is ready to unlock what’s next for your brewfest, let’s chat.
350+ winter beers, ciders, and spirits were celebrated at the 10th annual Coralville BrrrFest!
60 Iowa breweries, cideries, and distilleries poured their creative concoctions for over 2,000 thirsty attendees. Whether it’s feeling the VIP gold rims, smelling casks being tapped, seeing friends having fun together, or hearing the roar of broken glass, brewfests are back and we’ve got the best beer festival app that saves time while bringing everything together.
This was the third consecutive time our beer festival app brought #BrrrFest to life before, during, and after this Iowa beer festival. As you can see below, thousands of people plugged into the BrrrFest app and our exclusive tap handle trophy was earned by yet another new Best of Fest Award winner. Alright, enough chatter! Let’s get to some intoxicating event highlights.
PLANNING A BEER FESTIVAL? LET’S CHAT.
62 breweries, 307 craft beers, and 3,000+ beer lovers emerged from hibernation to enjoy the 2021 Iowa Craft Brew Festival.
We’ve been waiting a looong time for in-person beer festivals to return. This made the 2021 Iowa Craft Brew Festival special. Our beer festival app was in full effect (with a few new features!) and the Best of Fest Award was up for grabs. It was great to catch up with so many friends from all around Iowa, while making a bunch of new ones as well.
The Iowa Brewers Guild has traditionally hosted #ICBF in the heart of downtown Des Moines and while the urban vibe was always cool, this year’s shift to a more spacious, natural environment was well-received. The live music was fun too! Below is our festival summary and a few photos to highlight this triumphant return to brewfests.
PLANNING A BREWFEST? LET’S CHAT.
With social gatherings on pause, we’ve been talking about virtual beer festivals with a lot of event organizers. These online experiences can be a great way to support local craft breweries while keeping a tribe of beer lovers connected. Many aspects of a normal brewfest still exist within an online experience, so let’s look at what make these virtual beer festivals special and how you can host more great events.
This is the story of how we collaborated with the Iowa Brewers Guild to build our beer festival app. If you’re a brewfest organizer looking for a fresh way to save serious time while unlocking a more engaging beer festival experience, let’s chat!
#BrrrFest was a blast.
We returned to Coralville, Iowa for their 9th annual winter beer festival. Our beer festival app was back in action and easier to manage than ever. Event organizers spent no time herding tigers, yet 100% of the 61 vendors had their BrrFest beer lists looking sharp! This allowed 3,000+ attendees to rate any of the 300 craft beers being poured. In fact, before the doors even opened, 3,323 beers were added to wish lists, which continues to prove our platform builds hype, sells tickets and is appreciated by hop heads planning their own brewfest experience.
Once the doors opened, our team enjoyed sharing stories of our good friend Dan from Firetrucker and celebrating endless good beer with a community of beer lovers and the artists who brew them. Attendees rated more beers than last year’s event and after a tight race that saw beers going up and down the leaderboard, the Iowa Brewers Guild was proud to deliver our Best of Fest Award to Big Grove Brewery. Here’s the milestone moment and a few words from our winners on video, as well as, our full 2020 festival summary and highlight photos. Cheers!
HOSTING A BREWFEST? LET’S CHAT.
