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QC Craft Beer Week 2022

QC Craft Beer Week - May 16-21

Posted On: April 19, 2022

The Quad Cities welcomes back QC Craft Beer Week on May 16-21, just in time for the third anniversary of the QC Ale Trail.  Throughout the past three years, hundreds of craft beer lovers from 23 different states have blazed the QC Ale Trail.  The QC Ale Trail invites beer lovers on a self-guided tour of the local craft breweries across the Quad Cities region. 

Each day during QC Craft Beer Week highlights breweries in different parts of the Quad Cities regional destination to visit and support. You can also follow the Facebook event to get updates about specials, tappings, or events from each brewery on their designated day.  We'll post info here too.

As an added bonus, you can do the Check-in Challenge.  People can enter to win a Grand Prize basket if they visit a brewery every day M-F.  You can also use these check-ins for the QC Ale Trail. Contest entries will only be accepted from May 20-27, 2022.

Everyone is encouraged to wear a brewery/beer shirt on Friday and share who you are repping on social media using #qccraftbeerweek.

Monday, May 16 – East Moline/Geneseo

  • Midwest Ale Works – Tapping of new collab beer with 5 Cities.  It's a raspberry, blackberry, and blueberry sour coming in at 5% ABV and touting the name “Fuster Cluck”.
  • Geneseo Brewing Co. – Tapping of new beer called “American Sombrero”, a light American lager made with fresh lime zest and juice and a little bit a salt to balance things out.  Check out their new patio.  Craft Beer Week Special - 1/2 price growler fill with purchase of a meal.
  • Great Revivalist Brew Lab – Tapping of a Cherry Sour.  Pair it with an entree and dessert.  Refill a 64 oz growler for half price on Monday* (excludes nitro and imperial beer)

Tuesday, May 17 – Davenport/Muscatine

  • Front Street Brewery – BOGO beers at the pub & eatery and $1 off Front Street pints at the taproom.
  • Stompbox Brewing
  • Contrary Brewing Co. - $2 off your first pour at Contrary on Tuesday

Wednesday, May 18 – Bettendorf/LeClaire

  • Adventurous Brewing
  • Crawford Brew Works - Try their new 5.27.22 BREW in honor of Bettendorf zip code day
  • Five Cities Brewing – Happy Hour all day with $1 off Five Cities beer pints and tulips
  • Nerdspeak Brewery – BOGO for a QC brewery shirt (to get everyone more traffic that week) and if they buy a shirt, BOGO beer.
  • Twin Span Brewing – BOGO beer purchase
  • Green Tree Brewery – Live music from 6-9 with Ky & Ty and the Other Guy. 

Thursday, May 19 – Moline

  • Bent River Brew Pub – Tapping a Tequila Barrel Aged Gose with Grapefruit and Agave Nectar. One keg Bourbon Barrel Aged S'mores Imperial Milk Stout released today.
  • Galena Brewing Co. Ale House - $3 pints on Thursday
  • Rebels & Lions Brewing at Rebellion Brew Haus – Tapping of a one-off variant of their rye pilsner—a blueberry rye pilsner.

Friday, May 20 – Rock Island

  • Bent River Brewery – Tapping a Tequila Barrel Aged Gose with Grapefruit and Agave Nectar.
  • Blue Cat Brewing Co. – Tapping a collab English Pub Ale with Twin Span Brewing and a Belgian Blonde with The Granary. QC guest beers on tap throughout the week. 
  • Radicle Effect – Tapping of “Corner of Knowledge” Belgian Tripel
  • Wake Brewing – Tapping of Coarse Grinder, a pastry stout with hazelnut, chocolate, vanilla, and sea salt. Floyd's Food Truck 4-8pm.

Saturday, May 21

  • QC Beer Battle on the Belle 12-3 pm; SOLD OUT
  • Shops with Hops 3-6 pm in LeClaire; Tickets are $25

QC Beer Week began in 2011 by the local home brewing club, MUGZ.  It was created to highlight the great places in the Quad Cities that celebrated craft beer, with different tapping events at both bars and breweries.  As the local brewing landscape changed so has the event itself to focus on Quad Cities crafted brews.