Swayze Dayze is our response to the international event Zwanze Day. Zwanze, is the cult beer-o-philes dream event, where Belgian brewery Can’tillion releases a once a year, lambic-esque styled beer (which is probably infected with horse blankets or sumptin) to be consumed at select bars throughout the world. Having been "fortunate" enough to sample these beers and attend an event, we feel it necessary to, in American fashion, do it better, faster, and harder and longer and with hungry eyes. So an event the day before, paying tribute to America’s greatest hero, Patrick Swayze, makes perfect sense. On second thought, it makes no sense other than Swayze sounds kinda like Zwanze, but I digress. It is our mission to literally roundhouse kickstart the excitement of a beer nerds event a day early and potentially rip their throat out with a beer that is actually brewed a short distance from them. This event will take place at an as of yet undetermined number of at least average or better craft beer centric bars east of the Mississippi River. The event will feature a very special beer titled Dalton’s Kriek that the participating breweries conspired to produce. You’ll have the time of your life...and you’ll owe it all to uhhh-ussss!

The following breweries have created a very limited amount of their local iteration of Dalton’s Kriek:

1 Against The Grain Brewery (Louisvlle, KY)
2 18th Street Brewery (Gary, IN)
3 Carton Brewery (Atlantic Highlands, NJ)
4 Central State Brewery (Indianapolis, IN)
5 Marz Brewery (Chicago, IL)
6 Edmunds Oast (Charleston, SC)
7 Trophy Brewing (Raleigh, NC)
8 Ethereal Brewing (Lexington, KY)
9 Ei8ht Ball Brewing (Newport, KY)

Each brewery has committed to producing a limited amount of its own Dalton’s Kriek and will send small amounts out to select bars of their choosing to feature the beer, along with Swayze-centric celebrations (pottery, martial arts, dancing, bow-hunting, working on cars and general awesomeness), all of which to occur on Sept 18th. in your area. For more specific information about each release, please follow up with each brewery on the list for its specific event info.