One of Pennsylvania’s top-rated breweries has announced the details of this year’s “Haze it Forward” charity beer festival, with all proceeds going to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Imprint Beer Company, located at 1500 Industry Road Suite R in Hatfield Township, will begin the two-day event on Friday, May 19 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. with a brewer’s beer share for VIP registrants. The following day, the primary charity beer festival will be held from noon to 5 p.m., followed by an afterparty in the evening at a location to be determined.
Tickets are available for purchase here.
“This year, we extended the beer fest an extra hour, and we included food from our sister company, Cantina Rabo,” said Imprint co-owner Ryan Diehl. “Rabo will be serving a bunch of food items throughout the five hours in our new “Gnarcadium,” using both the onsite kitchen and our new Rabo food trailer to make each scratch item.”
Each year, the Haze it Forward event draws hundreds of attendees to Imprint’s brewery, with the event itself spanning throughout their brewery space as well as the exterior of their building. Select breweries from across the country donate their beers for the event, allowing guests to sample a variety of beers they otherwise may not be exposed to.
Imprint then covers the expenses for the event, and all gross proceeds from ticket sales and raffle baskets are donated to CHOP.
“I’ve been fortunate to start a business in an awesome industry that’s built around social connections,” said Ryan Diehl, co-owner of Imprint, during an interview in 2022. “We’ve always been thankful for the responses our efforts and our beers have received, so it has always seemed natural to reflect those concepts into giving back to our community.”
The inaugural “Haze it Forward” event was successfully held in 2019, however the 2020 event was scrapped due to the coronavirus pandemic, which also caused the 2021 event to be modified and scaled down. Last year, the event came roaring back to full speed, with more than 70 craft breweries being represented from across the nation and more than 500 people attending the event, generating more than $26,000 in donations.
“CHOP does tremendous work, and seems to bring out a wide outpouring of support amongst the community,” Diehl said.
A list of participating breweries can be found below:
For more information on this year’s Haze it Forward event, click here. To view images from last year’s event, click here.
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