There are so much beer to taste and know about in McKinley Hill Beer Festival

For the whole stretch this month of October 2014, the Venice Piazza of McKinley Hill in BGC is the place for Beer Festival where grand revelry is overflowing with fun and excitement for beer connoisseurs and enthusiasts. 

Over 100 craft and imported beers, beer-infused dishes and non-stop entertainment will surely gratify the thirst and food desire of partygoers. 

October 1 to 25, 2014 - Experience and enjoy the McKinley Hill Beer Festival with more fun and exciting beer promos.  From 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M., beer-lovers can enjoy unlimited beers for only PHP299.00 for local beers and PHP499 for imported beers at participating establishments. 

Take advantage and enjoy the month long limited-edition mouthwatering beer-infused dishes prepared by Wursty Wursty Beer Garden, Tratorria Poggio Antico, Marciano's, Main Street and Little Asia.

The kick-off of McKinley Hill Beer Festival formally commenced with a cheer and gulping  down pitchers of beer.  Karen Bordador (center), who serves as master of the ceremony, joins the initiation rite of unlimited beer drinking.

October 10 & 11, 2014 - you can regale in the German Octoberfest by Wursty Wursty Beer Garden, where you can enjoy great selection of imported German beers and popular German cuisine, along with live performance from KSM Jean and Joey, Kilda, and Xpresso.

Among the beers I've tried, I find this Pivo Praha excellent in taste. This microbrewed beer is crisp and getting more manly when chilled.

October 17, 2014 - Watch the best indie musicians and artists in town performing at the Indie Supreme. Performers would include Angelo, Mom's Cake, Engkanto Reggae, Megan Aguilar, Yosha, Lougee Basabas, and Wolfgang.

October 24, 2014 - Imago and Chicosci will perform on stage.

October 25, 2014 - The rock band, Urbandub, will close the Beer Tent with rock music.

Small players in beer industry, the craft breweries, like the Xavierbier, the  Pivo Praha (above), the Hand Craft (below) and the Great Island Craft Brewery (also below) are gaining exposure by participating in the Beer Festival.

Beer products now being manufactured in a local brewery in Bakekang, Baguio City.

Soon-to-be marketed are bottled versions of Xavierbier beer products. These four bottled craft beers represent Ifugao legendary complicated belief of the universe and system of deities. Their flat universe is composed of six worlds: Kabunyan (Skyworld), Pugaw (Earthworld), Dalom (Underworld), Lagud (Eastern World), Daya (Western World), and Kadungayan (Spiritual world).

Master brewer, Rose (with bull cap), bartending a tap in Venice Piazza on the kick-off of McKinley Hill Beer Festival  

Those who will avail of the promos will have the chance to win McKinley's giveaways of round-trip tickets for two courtesy of Air Asia to Seoul, South Korea and Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.  

To get the chance of winning the raffle, guests can presents their receipts at the designated redemtion booth at the Venice Piazza.   Raffle draw is on October 25, during the McKinley Hill Beer Festival's closing revelry.

Mr. Earl Palma's Sauceria offers not only good beers but also mouth-watering beer-infused dishes. Even if the beer festival is over, you can always have the best of Sauceria at the Tuscany, McKinley Hill.

For more information on McKinley Hill Beer Festival, you can call the Megaworld Lifestyle Malls Concierge at 709-9888, 709-088, and 0917-838-0111. The area code for landline phones in Metro Manila is 02  for national calls and +63 for international calls.

A bunch of stand-up comedians from Comedy Manila with Karen Bordador (2nd left). The funny guys won the beer quiz and Cesar Cruz of the Daily Tribune holds a plane ticket he just won for a trip to Puerto Prinsesa City, Palawan.

The Bicol Express Wild Chili Ale is a chili-flavored craft beer, while the (+63) Single Hop IPA represents Philippines using the international telephone country code +63 of the country, and the Poto Pale Ale, are the craft beer manufactured by the Great Island Craft Brewery in aranaque City, Metro Manila.    

Filipino version of chili-flavored beer. It is manufactured in a  mini brewery in Paranaque City, Metro Manila by Allan Baldis Agala (I think, he is the guy peeping in the 10th photo, above) .

This can be your real tear jerker. Now, you cannot just pretend crying when you are broke.

A FRIENDLY REMINDER :  Be aware of RA 10586, or the  "Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act of 2013," a new law that took effect recently. It penalizes drunk driving in the Philippines. Don't drink and drive, otherwise you will loss lots of things in your life. Your license to drive might be cancelled and banned you to drive for life. Isn't it worse when its too late to realize that your life insurance and car insurance will not cover you and your losses due to alcohol. If drinking is socially unavoidable, just drink moderately and responsibly. (Check this for your reference: The Official Gazette)

The chocolate world of Café Maxims - Newport Mall, Resorts World Manila

A galore of Cafe Maxims' heavenly chocolate cakes sampler we tried at the Chocolate Festival in Newport Mall, Resorts World Manila

Café Maxims named this luscious piece a Mary Jane (PHP230.00).  Yes, like you, I wonder why the name. Is it made of weed? Go to the Newport Mall right now and find the answer or visit any of the Café Maxims branches in Metro Manila. The taste is so mesmerizing and I'm sure you will not bother to ask anymore why the name.    

The flourless chocolate (PHP230.00) of Cafe Maxims. After my first bite, I fell in love with it almost instantly.   It's so smooth and melts right away in my mouth that it went straight to my heart.  What a love at first bite.

The white chocolate macadamia mousse (PHP230.00) in chocolate polka dots

The chocolate layers of el ferrero cake (PHP190.00) of Café Maxims is perfect for coffee break.

The Valhrona double chocolate tart (PHP230.00) of Café Maxims

This dark caraibe (PHP190.00) of Café Maxims is another piece to feel in love with.

The chocolate carrot cake (PHP90.00) & coconut cake (PHP90.00) disguising as muffins .

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Chocolate carving exhibit at Newport Mall this September 2014

A batch of chocolate artists from Marriot Cafe (Manila) presents their precast sculptures of The Walking Dead TV series characters, which they put on the finishing touches on stage during the chocolate festival in Newport Mall in Resorts World Manila. The chocolate carvings of  gun-totting sheriff and the grisly-looking zombie carvings is their anticipated presentation for upcoming Halloween season inspired by the awaited Season 7 episodes of that favorite zombie TV series.   

Seriously, I wanna bite first these zombies. That was when I saw and shot them in the Newport Mall last week.

Then I heard somebody  saying he wanted to kiss the chocolate artist who created them. 

These chocolate zombies are in real danger of getting devoured by human onlookers. I expect the inevitable story of "The Walking Dead Eaten by Those Alive" to unfold soon. 

Jae Louise Cortiñas is the patissier and chocolatier of Marriott Hotels & Resorts Manila. She helps mold the chocolate carvings of The Walking Dead characters. Well, if you can find Andrew Lincoln, can you guess where am I in the picture.

Jae does the manicure while Jayvee does the make-up on the canvass.

Jae Louise Cortiñas shaving off chocolate from the nape of  Norman Reedus.

Jae polishes her finishing touch.

The gun-totting sheriff and the living dead sculpted and painted creations of Marriot Cafe chocolate artists.

The team leader of Marriot Cafe chocolate artists is too busy and focused on doing the finishing touches and installing their sculptures to the point that he could no longer answer to some of our questions.

Jayvee Socrates of Marriot Manila with his chocolate rendetion of The Walking Dead - a chocolate painting featuring Lauren Cohan's zombie mode.

Margette poses with the chocolate carving busts of the late comedian actor Dolphy Quizon, the erstwhile 1950's and 1960's  American famous pin-up girl Marilyn Monroe, and James Dean of the 1955 famous American film The Rebel Without a Cause. The chef-con-artist probably ran out of time to complete carving the chocolate busts of local actress and TV host, Cris Aquino; the former U.S. president, John F. Kennedy; and the "King of rock and roll, Elvis Presley or were sold out before the exhibit.

In this photo, guess who would really give the grisly bite. My wife or the Gargoyle?

The Gargoyle - A gargoyle is a grotesque statue that is carved out of stone, usually granite, and is used to get rainwater away from a building.  As ornaments, gargoyles are called chimera or boss.  These pieces are believed to protect those that they guard from evil or harmful spirits.

 

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