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We will be tweeting live from the High Country Beer fest on September 4th from 3pm until 7pm.

If you prefer to drink fine craft beers rather then read about them, then come on up next weekend and enjoy yourselves.

Tickets are on sale on-line at http://www.hcbeerfest.com . Pre-sale tickets are at a reduced price from the gate price so click on over and buy them today!  Admission price includes a logo’d tasting glass and access to the educational sessions that will be held throughout the afternoon.  Additionally, we will offer various “Safe Ride Home” options during and following the event.

The tweeting will be done throughout the event… with 56 Breweries..  this should get interesting and potentially entertaining..    Hope to see you at the High Country Beer Fest in Boone over Labor Day weekend!

So follow both the Broyhill Inn’s twitter page @Broyhill_Inn and the the beer fest’s page @HCBeerFest or better yet, come join us!

The Boone Brewing Companies Blowing Rock Ale has signed on again to be our main sponsor of our local beer festival…. The High Country Beer Fest will be held on Saturday September 4th, 2010 at the Broyhill Inn & Conference Center from 3pm to 7pm. This will be our 3rd year and we are delighted to have these guys partner up with us again to make this great craft beer event possible. Tickets are on sale now on-line at http://www.hcbeerfest.com

For information on Blowing Rock Ale, you can check out their site here http://www.boonebrewing.com/

I have found the first series of these sessions to be extremely informative and would suggest them to any business that is looking for sound advice and training on the uses of Social Media as a marketing tool.  Great folks teaching the class and you will have some fun at the same time.

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We are proud to be the host of the High Country Beer Fest each year and this year looks to be a terrific event.  Last year was a sell out so please be proactive and get your tickets in advance.  We will limit the event to 1000 participants so that all can have an enjoyable afternoon without having to wait too long in lines.  This years event is on Saturday, September 4th, 2010 at the Broyhill Inn.

The official web site for the High Country Beer Fest is www.hcbeerfest.com.

Our new Facebook Fan page and Twitter pages are:  http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Boone-NC/High-Country-Beer-Fest/340444690128?ref=ts & @HCBeerFest

Give us a follow and mark the date for Labor Day weekend in beautiful High Country of North Carolina.

Cheers!

Talk of the Town

Come attend our next Talk of the Town social marketing session at the Broyhill Inn.  The sessions are extremely informative and you will learn some great ideas to take back to your place of business.  I can honestly say that just about all I have learned regarding the use social media for the Broyhill Inn, I have learned from this talented team.  For more information, registration, etc. check out the link.  http://broyhillinn.com/blog/108

Talk of the Town

If you have not checked out our Social Media series “Talk Of The Town” which is put on by Sarah Pinnix you need to check it out.  Take advantage of having numerous folks that are in the know available to you to help answer your questions.  How can social media help my business?  What do I need to do?  Join us for this ongoing series so that you can be “the talk of the town”..    Date and cost information can be found at this link:  http://us1.campaign-archive.com:80/?u=dc849cb306bf2fce0319962e4&id=eacad858d5&e=ccc86a2af4

Sound like a weird title for a note from the Broyhill? Well then, you need to come out to our Wine 101 class! We don’t call it “Getting Schooled on Wine” for nothing! Tonight the theme for the wine tasting was on wines from Germany and Austria. A few fun facts from the evening include:

Germany is most known for it’s white wines. 85% of the wines produced there are white.

Germany’s noted wine region is in the South-West along the Rhine and Mosel rivers near France. It is too cold in the northern areas of Germany to support wine production.

Austrian Wine Classification is based off of the German system. This is not a bad thing since Austrian grape varietals and characteristics are very similar to Germany’s anyway.

Those may be a couple of fun facts from tonight’s wine tasting, but the most interesting things that I learned include scandal and fungus. There’s nothing quite like a scandal to throw some intrigue into a class! Austria had a wine scandal in 1985 when wine brokers decided to add sweetness and body to wine by adding antifreeze. Startling? It certainly was when the public found out, even though this little addition was not necessarily harmful. The good that came out of this scandal is that new regulations pushed the wine industry toward higher quality production. And who’s against higher quality? Now, you may still be wondering where on earth the fungus statement came from. Well, when grapes get the Botrytis fungus it does not mean the end of the season for those vines. This honey-like fungus actually has a positive effect on the grapes by reducing the water content and concentrating the sugars in the grape. Grapes effected by this are used in some of the higher quality wines made in Germany. So next time you think about fungus, don’t write it off completely, you never know when it could be a good thing! If you think this information is pretty interesting then try pairing it with wine! Our next Wine 101 class is December 2 from 6:30 to 8:30 and is on the white and red wines from Spain and Portugal. You can find more information at http://www.broyhillinn.com/events/wineseries/. Come join us! You never know what you might learn!

We are very excited about our new partnership with Appalachian State University in the development of an Educational Brewery on site at the Brohill Inn and Conference Center.  The honors level course will cover the actual beer making techniques and also the business development of a small business, production costs, operations, marketing and communications.  Now this is a class that I would be happy to go back to school for…  More information will be coming out in the following weeks.

Join us Wednesday, November 18th for a Taste of German and Austrian wines- $15 at the door, begins at 6:30 PM. Learning about wine has never tasted so good!

The Broyhill Inn & Peabody’s are pleased to continue the educational Wine 101 series of wine tastings at the Broyhill Inn. As with the Wine 101 tastings we have done previously, this tasting will be educational, with a specific focus on an element of wine, or in this case a country, yet relaxed and fun!  Come join us for the best tasting education.