Ales West

03/25/2026

06/10/2025

🎉🍻 **Ales West 2025 Home Brew Competition – Winners Announced!** 🍻🎉

Huge thanks to everyone who came out, sampled, voted, and celebrated the art of home brewing with us this year! We had some *seriously tasty* entries, and the results are in...

🏆 **People’s Choice (Sponsored by Spike Brewing):**
🥇 1st – Witness Brewing
🥈 2nd – Fustercluck Brewfarm
🥉 3rd – Wacked Out Brewing
👏 Y’all clearly know good beer when you taste it!

🎯 **Brewers' Choice (Sponsored by Bacchus & Barleycorn, Ltd.):**
🥇 1st – Drunken Sherpa with “Currant Affair Stout"
🥈 2nd – 8 Degree Brewing with “Hot Honey Wiess Hefe”
🥉 3rd – Paperback with their classic “Helles Lager”

🏅 **Overall Best Beer (Voted by Brewers):**
🌟 **8 Degree Brewing** and their mind-blowing **Peanut Milk Stout** – absolutely crushed it!

To all our brewers, tasters, sponsors, and beer lovers: thank you for making Ales West 2025 a hop-tastic success. 🍺💥 Can’t wait to see what’s brewing for next year!

05/29/2025

🐐🍻 BIG NEWS, ST. JOE! 🍻🐐
We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership between the St. Joseph Goats Football Team and the Ales West Craft Beer Festival! 🎉

Join us Saturday, June 7th, 2025 at Coleman Hawkins Park in Beautiful Downtown St. Joseph as we kick things off with Ales West starting at 11:00 AM! Come meet our incredible brewers, sample some of the finest craft beers around, and soak in the festival vibes. 🍺🎶 Tickets available www.aleswest.com

Be sure to stop by the St. Joseph Goats table to catch all the latest football news, get hyped for the season, and grab some team swag! Also, sign up for a chance to win an autographed Neil Smith Goats Football! 🏈💚 Tickets for the game are still available and can be purchased at https://stjgoatsfootball.com/

Then cap off the day with a short stroll to the Civic Arena for the Goats’ Opening Day Game! 🐐🏟️

🎟️ Great beer. Exciting football. One unforgettable day.
Let’s go Goats!

05/27/2025

🐐🍻 BIG NEWS, ST. JOE! 🍻🐐

We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership between the St. Joseph Goats Football Team and the Ales West Craft Beer Festival! 🎉

Join us Saturday, June 7th, 2025 at Coleman Hawkins Park in Beautiful Downtown St. Joseph as we kick things off with Ales West starting at 11:00 AM! Come meet our incredible brewers, sample some of the finest craft beers around, and soak in the festival vibes. 🍺🎶 Tickets available www.aleswest.com

Be sure to stop by the St. Joseph Goats table to catch all the latest football news, get hyped for the season, and grab some team swag! Also, sign up for a chance to win an autographed Neil Smith Goats Football! 🏈💚 Tickets for the game are still available and can be purchased at https://stjgoatsfootball.com/

Then cap off the day with a short stroll to the Civic Arena for the Goats’ Opening Day Game! 🐐🏟️

🎟️ Great beer. Exciting football. One unforgettable day.
Let’s go Goats!

05/27/2025

Revisiting some of our Brewers Spotlight: Here are a few more of the brewers that will be pouring their brews next month.

Tickets available at www.aleswest.com or on the main event page. Everyone is Included-All People, All Places, All Ways

05/26/2025

Revisiting some of our Brewers Spotlight: Here are a few more of the brewers that will be pouring their brews next month.

Tickets available at www.aleswest.com or on the main event page.

05/24/2025

Brewers Spotlight: Here are a few more of the brewers that will be pouring their brews next month.

Tickets available at www.aleswest.com or on the main event page.

05/23/2025

Brewers Spotlight: Here are a few more of the brewers that will be pouring their brews next month.
Tickets available at www.aleswest.com or on the main event page.