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Reverse Keg Ride 2011 Includes Costume Contest for Best PGH Costume!

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For those of you looking for a way to celebrate Halloween while getting some exercise – think of it as canceling out the candy – or you really love bicycles and beer – this is the event for you. Its time for the annual Reverse Keg Ride.

What is a Reverse Keg Ride?

A few years ago, End End Brewing decided that the best way to get the first keg of Pedal Pale Ale to the bar was by bike.  And thus the keg ride was born. And each year a few more people decided to come along for the ride.  This spring over 400 people joined the ride to deliver the first keg AND raise money for some local charities.

Since the keg rides have been so popular, in 2009 it was decided that the way to end the pedaling season was with a reverse keg ride back to the brewery – another chance to raise some money, drink some beer and take a bike ride through Pittsburgh with a few hundred people.

Keg Ride, but its Halloween Weekend?

Yes, it is! So the bicycle beer loving folks are holding a costumer contest – and it is a good one. Prizes will be awarded for Best Beer-themed Costume, Best Pittsburgh-themed Costume and Best Overall Costume,

How does this work?

Well, talk about another great example of a Pittsburgh collaboration.  East End Brewing is working with the folks at Venture Outdoors to make sure this is a well organized and safe event.  East End Brewing knows beer.  And Venture Outdoors are experts in organizing large groups of people to do fun things outside.

Reverse Keg Ride Details

  • Saturday, October 29th. Rain or shine.
  • Breakfast and Check-in at 9:00am
  • Depart at 10:00, arrive at 11:00-11:30am
  • Cost: $15 for pre-registration (on-line), $20 for Day-of-ride registration. This is a charitable contribution that goes to support “Advisory Board on Autism and Related Disorders” (aka ABOARD), a non-profit agency, providing a lifeline of support for families and individuals with autism.
  • What you get:  a continental breakfast, morning coffee, a fun day of riding your bike in a big group… and this year’s very first SNOW MELT WINTER ALE fresh from the brewery.
  • Get all the details and warnings about hills here.  Ready to register – you can do that here.
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Bike the Beer

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Speaking of bikes, it is time for another favoirte annual bike ride – Friday, May 15 is the East End Brewing’s Annual Pedal Pale Ale Keg Ride.

THE RIDE: To help spread the word about what it means to operate an environmentally sustainable brewery (more on that here), for the past few years, we’ve been delivering the the very first PEDAL PALE ALE kegs of the season to a local tap-spot in a very unique way….BY BICYCLE.

Check out our post on last years ride with links to pictures from past rides.  Last year over 220 people joined the ride!  Join in and help them top that number again this year.

I did a little blog searching and found some other cool blogs that posted about the Pedal Pale Ale Keg Ride

  • Bike PGH – also note that May 15, 2009 in Bike to Work Day – check out some of the biker breakfast stations.
  • Columbus Rides – our bike friendly friends to the West are excited about bikes and beer in Pittsburgh too.
  • FoodBurgh – has a post on the ride – check out some of their other great reviews of local watering holes too.  This blog is a great new addition to the PGH blogging scene.
  • The Brew Lounge – a great extensive blog about beer – has a nice post about East End Brewing and the Keg Ride
  • FixedGear – another Philadelphia cyclist who is a fan of beer and bikes
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Bikes and Beer

Yes, That is a keg in that child carried.  Scott from East End Brewing is very serious about the Pedal Pale Ale.  For the third year in a row they will bike the beer to the tap spot and all bikers get a free beer from the first keg.

If you’re just joining us, here’s how this works: You show up here at the brewery on Friday, May 23rd at 6:30pm (Yes, we’re still open for Growler Hours that day, but I’ll warn you that car parking might be
tight with all the bicycles… nice!), get signed in with someone who looks like they’re in charge, collect your token – a very important step, and be ready to follow the bouncing keg(s) that I’ll be pulling,BY BICYCLE to this year’s mystery tap spot.  We’ll take a low-speed, family friendly, meandering, human-powered, beer delivering, two wheeled tour of Pittsburgh’s greater East End.  Upon our arrival, we’ll get the keg(s) into position, and for everyone who made the trip, the first round of Pedal Pale Ale, from the very first keg of the year, is on me!

Yes, the pace will be gentle.  And no, there won’t be very many hills….need I remind you that I expect to be pulling at least one 160 pound keg of beer behind me.   Besides, I spend all my waking hours brewing these days, which leaves very little time to train for a ride like this. We’ll also be using a much nicer trailer than the  poor thing I dragged along last year – or so the guys at Bike Pittsburgh (www.Bike-Pgh.org) tell me.  Less roadside bungee cord wrangling should be involved this year, and all that time can be better spent with a pint of fresh beer in hand!

Check out the pictures from previous years here:
2006 http://www.eastendbrewing.com/image/tid/18
2007 http://picasaweb.google.com/mike.vindler/PedalPaleAleRide61507 and http://mtnbiker.smugmug.com/gallery/3009403