August 7, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 1:00 am Cask & Ale
One brewery? That’s too easy.
This Great Taste Eve, we’re bringing together some of the Midwest’s best breweries for one massive draft showcase featuring 24 taps loaded with rare releases, festival exclusives, barrel-aged beers, crowd favorites, and plenty of surprises.
📍 Cask & Ale – Madison
🗓️ Friday, August 7
⏰ 4:00 PM – Close
Representing some of the region’s finest breweries, including:
🍺 3 Sheeps Brewing
🍺 Third Space Brewing
🍺 Lion’s Tail Brewing
🍺 Half Acre Beer Co.
🍺 Surly Brewing
🍺 Founders Brewing
…and more!
🔥 Don’t miss some of our featured specialty pours:
• Surly Double Barrel Darkness – one of Surly’s legendary barrel-aged imperial stouts
• Half Acre Fresh Frost – Great Taste exclusive American IPA
• Lion’s Tail All Along the Watchtower – Double Dry-Hopped IPA
• Lion’s Tail Kula Wheat – Pineapple American Wheat Ale
• Third Space It Was All a Dream – Limited specialty release
• Lion’s Tail Decades – Cellared barrel-aged release
Plus, an incredible mix of fresh IPAs, crisp lagers, classic amber ales, fruited sours, ciders, wheat beers, hazy favorites, and more spread across 24 draft lines.
😁 Brewery representatives from several featured breweries will be hanging out throughout the evening, pouring beers, talking all things craft, handing out swag, and helping kick off Great Taste weekend the right way.
Whether you’re in town for Great Taste of the Midwest or just looking for one of the best tap lists you’ll see all year, this is the place to be.
Cheers to Great Taste weekend—we’ll see you at Cask & Ale! 🍻
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