Big Pour is almost Sold Out!

Well it took just about one week! The evening session is sold out and the afternoon session is very close to being sold out!

Latest Big Pour ticket update (Monday 8/3/09 2:45 pm)

The ProArts Ticket website to purchase tickets online is now up and running. There may continue to be intermittent problems however throughout the afternoon as this is a server related issue at the company hosting the ProArts website. We advise that you keep trying if you experience difficulty or call ProArts at 412-394-3353 to purchase tickets over the phone. We apologize for the inconvenience. -- the CJ Team

Temporary issue with online ticket purchasing

Please note... the system to purchase Steel City Big Pour Tickets thru ProArts Tickets is temporarily down but will be back up as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience and ask that you try their website at www.proartstickets.org at regular intervals through out the day so you can purchase tickets just as soon as the site is back up and running. We'll post another message as soon as the problem has been resolved. In the mean time, you can purchase tickets by calling ProArts at 412-394-3353.

-- Thank you for your patience

Construction Junction team

2009 Brewers Line-up

Hey everyone, we now have all the logos for the brewers posted. Check out the line up for this year. We are very excited about it and hope that you share our enthusiasm.

Dave- The Main Insitigator

When tickets go on sale...

Tickets for the Big Pour go on sale Monday, August 3rd, 2009 through Pro Arts Tickets. At that time (10 am) the "Buy Tickets" icon will become active.

-- Construction Junction

Inagural Post from the Main Instigator

Hello Big Pour fans! Dave here... the “Main Instigator” of the Steel City Big Pour. You'll be very happy to know that the Big Pour Committee has been diligently working on the 3rd annual Steel City Big Pour. To date, we've lined up 32 of the best craft brewers, 20 great local food establishments, and a host of local artists in an effort to create a seriously unforgettable event.

As you can see, the Big Pour artwork honors Woodstock and we truly aspire to live up to that original Woodstock tag line... “nobody attending will ever be the same.” That might seem like a lofty, or even ridiculous goal for a craft beer festival, but we disagree.

Our mission is to make the Steel City Big Pour one of America's best craft beer festivals. Notice that I did not say the biggest. Biggest is most definitely not our goal. Our goal is richness. We're striving to create the most interesting and engaging festival we can by combining the best brewers with the best food and the best live art for a Big Pour that's talked about across the country... maybe even across the world.

We think we're well on our way. I'm happy to report that we received a ton of amazingly positive feedback after the first two Big Pours in 2007 and 2008. It seems apparent that in the eyes of our patrons... the event did live up to our hopes. We also received a bunch of great suggestions on how to make the event even more successful in the future. We've taken all of them into consideration and appreciate folks taking the time to share them with us. So the Big Pour continues with the same great elements of the past along with some new tweaks for 2009 including five new breweries, a number of additional food partners and an array of artists who'll be sawing up logs, pouring molten glass and molding oozing concrete.

One common theme throughout the feedback we received, was a request for a permanent Big Pour web site available year round. Sometimes you get what you ask for and in this case we're happy to launch our Steel City Big Pour website with the launch of this Big Pour Blog. Thanks to our web designers at Lava New Media for helping make this possible.

We hope this Blog takes off... becoming an active communication vehicle for the Big Pour. We look forward to hearing from you so please... let us know what you think.

-- David Lagnese