Let the craziness begin. Brouwer’s Cafe is known for throwing great festivals, and Hard Liver Barleywine Festival (March 14 & 15) is the most popular of them all. Now in its 13th year, Hard Liver is a gauntlet of around 50 barleywines on tap all at once. The preliminary list of beers is below.

For those that have not attended the festival previously, the doors open Saturday at 11am, and there will be a line of people waiting to get in. Tables will be hard to come by all day. If you don’t want to fight crowds, I highly suggest skipping Saturday and just visiting on Sunday or next week. You will most definitely miss out on some of the popular selections, but there will be plenty of great barleywines left pouring after Saturday.

The list:
Alesmith Old Numbskull ’14
Almanac Heirloom Pumpkin Barleywine ’14
Anacortes Old Sebastes ’07
Amnesia 10th Anniversary BBL Barleyewine
Avery Hog Heaven ’14
Bainbridge Old Toe Jam ’13
Ballast Point Three Sheets BBl-Aged Barleywine
Big Sky Four Roses Old Bluehair ’12
Big Time Old Wooly ’14
Black Raven Old Birdbrain 2013
Deschutes Mirror Mirror ’09
Dogfish Head Olde School ’14
Double Mountain Off the Wagon Belgian Style ’14
Engine House #9 Barrel Aged Thunder Buddies ’13
Evil Twin Freudian Slip
Firestone-Walker §ucaba ’13
Gigantic Massive! ’14
Green Flash/Cigar City Candela Rye Barleywine
Heathen Reindeer Tears Barrel-Aged ‘14
High Water Old and in the Way ’14
Iron Fist Raisin’ a Fist ’14
Laguntias Olde GnarleyWine ’11
Laurelwood Santa’s Woody ’14
Lompoc Old Tavern Rat ’14
Lost Abbey Angel’s Share ’12
Mad Viking Pillage the Village
Midnight Sun Arctic Devil ’13
Midnight Sun Termination Dust Bourbon Barrel-Aged Belgian ‘14
Mikkeller Big Worster Barleywine
Old School House Barelywine ’14
Pelican Stormwatcher’s Winterfest Barleywine ‘14
Perennial Vermilion Barleywine ’14
Pike Old Bawdy ’11
Reel Ales 102
Reuben’s Brews Auld Heritage ’15
Seven Seas BBL Old Wheelchair ’13
Sierra Nevada Big Foot Barleywine ’14
Silver City Old Scrooge
Sound Brewery Westland Aged Old Scoundrel ’14
Southern Tier Back Burner ’13
Telegraph Rhinoceros Hoppy Red Wine BBL Aged
To Øl Mine is Bigger than Yours’14
Triplehorn BBL Aged BYGGVIN ’14
Uinta Anniversary Barleywine