{"id":9977,"date":"2023-11-22T19:29:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=9977"},"modified":"2023-11-22T19:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:29:42","slug":"dekegger-has-taken-last-drink-new-fest-eyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/dekegger-has-taken-last-drink-new-fest-eyed\/","title":{"rendered":"DeKegger has taken last drink; new fest eyed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Decatur&#8217;s most popular summer events, the DeKegger Homebrew &amp; BBQ Fest, has taken its last drink. But have no fear, a replacement is being planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Riverside Brewfest will be held in 2024, with the DeKegger going by the wayside after seven years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, several members of the Decatur Main Street bunch which first launched the DeKegger have moved on, leaving the planning and operation to a new group of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have decided to make some changes in the event, including a new name and a new date: the Riverside Brewfest on May 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100088668095813\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"76\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/CaseQuart.jpg?resize=640%2C76&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/CaseQuart-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C121&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/CaseQuart-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C35&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/CaseQuart-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C91&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/CaseQuart-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C182&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/CaseQuart-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C242&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/CaseQuart-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/CaseQuart-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The brewfest will be held at Riverside Center, as it was for the first time last year, in September<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA new committee with wonderful ideas and thoughts are now taking over and we encourage you to go check their brewfest out,\u201d said several members of the original committee in a Facebook post. \u201cPlease share the same love you did with us to them. Check out Riverside Brewfest. Thanks for the love and support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The earlier date was chosen, a city official said, to, in part, avoid the crowded summer events schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com One of Decatur&#8217;s most popular summer events, the DeKegger Homebrew &amp; BBQ Fest, has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14,15],"class_list":["post-9977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/D80A7045BAA44EDFB8D9D8839637389D-1.jpg?fit=310%2C384&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}