The firkin beer is ready for Saturday’s Firkin Ale Fest at the Straight to Ale brewery. Firkin tickets are limited – buy online to make sure you have a firkin spot.

What the firk is a firkin? Unfiltered and unpasteurized beer that is served from the cask without force-carbonation. If you’ve never had a cask-conditioned ale, it’s quit the experience. Before pasteurization, filtering, and force-carbonation, cask-conditioned beer was simply called “beer.”

Saturday will feature cask-conditioned versions of:

• Dry-hopped Monkeynaut
• Dry-hopped Monkey’s Uncle
• Lily Flagg Milk Stout on Cocoa Nibs
• Wernher Von Brown Ale
• Twickenham Mild Ale
• Laika’s Russian Imperial Stout
• Olde Towne Pumpkin Ale
• And one “special surprise”

$20 for admission. There is no charge per sample. The Straight to Ale brewery has a 100+ inch television in the event area for some SEC game if you are able to focus on something besides the beer.