It’s become an annual San Diego Comicon tradition: HopCon, at Stone Brewing’s Liberty Station. We release W00tstout, have a big old party, and tap a bunch of rare kegs and interesting casks for fans of great beer to enjoy … and the whole thing is a fundraiser for The Hero Initiative!
This year, something special is happening, and I’m turning it over to Mike Palmer to tell you exactly what that is:
Among the über-cool upgrades we have in store for Hop-Con 3.0, we’re taking the giant plot behind building 12 (aka the garden bar) and turning it into the HOP-CADE! Our dream of creating an outdoor arcade and beer garden from last year has been realized. We’ll have only IPAs on tap, our oversized lawn games (Jenga, Connect Four, etc), two pinball machines (Twilight Zone and Theater of Magic), Donkey Kong, Miss Pac-Man and a Skeeball machine. Not enough? How about an arcade game with a 25 foot screen driven from a used beer barrel converted into a vintage arcade console? This last feat will be created by our friend Hunter Bond, Troll Slayer and resident Pinball Mechanic at J!NX, with custom metal routing by San Diego’s ReproHaus. This is all in addition to the five vintages/variations of Stone Farking-Wheaton w00tstout, exclusive beers we brewed with Aisha Tyler and Kevin Eastman, epic food and all-around geeky good times. See you on July 8th!
Tickets and more deets can be found here…
hopcon.stonebrewing.com
I think this is pretty great. This year, HopCon is not just for people who love great beer, it’s also for people who love great beer and classic arcade games, which is basically a Venn Diagram describing me.
Tickets are going fast, so if you want in, go get yours today!
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Bummer, can’t get to San Diego, just have to buy the w00tstout brew kit.
I read this as HopeCon and thought “Finally a convention to remove the stigma of suffering with mental illness”
Sounds excellent!
Bought my ticket–can’t wait!
What is the obsession with IPAs? Do people really love sucking down the dregs from old bottles of cough medicine? Oh well, who am I to deny people their fads?
Despite the restriction of “IPA only”, it sounds like a good event. Get a better beer selection and it might even be great. 😉
Sweet Zombie Jesus! If only I could muster the funds to fly to San Diego…
Hope the event is a success for a third year in a row! Since Diana won’t be in San Diego until the weekend (as she is now doing hospital rotations), the event is a bit out of my price range for me as the sole beer drinker this time around.
Damn. I really wish I liked beer because this sounds awesome.
The HopCade is such a wonderful idea! What a stage.The idea of the pop-up arcade as time machine was immediate. Well, the event sounds like a lot of fun. As I won’t be able to attend, I will instead add to the conversation from my distant east-coast edge with this:
“The rapid evolution of technology and the enormous cultural reach of video games have set the stage for a new genre in media art. Video games offer a compelling avant-garde performance space, activated by artists and players alike. These media art practices are distinct from film, video and theater and mark a critical development in the history of art. The museum is acquiring works that explore and articulate the unique boundaries of video games as an art form and plans to acquire additional video games in the future, working with artists, developers and programmers to represent this new creative practice.”
http://americanart.si.edu/pr/library/2013/video_games_acquisition.pdf