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Inland Bays benefit from brewfest

Gary's Dewey Beach Grill holds sixth annual brewfest
J. Burke Morrison of Twin Lakes Brewery from Greenville sips on the Pennsylvania-based Weyerbacher Brewing Company’s Wit beer. BY CHRIS FLOOD
Chris Flood
April 29, 2015
Annapolis-based Pressing Strings plays laid-back beach sounds on the deck at Gary’s. BY CHRIS FLOOD
Robert Slaughter, left, and Danny Shea were all smiles representing the Milford-based Mispillion River Brewing. BY CHRIS FLOOD
The brewfest was a benefit for the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays. Center volunteers Peggy Hepburn and Charlie Taylor manned the table. BY CHRIS FLOOD
Enjoying the event are (l-r) Mike Lee and Rich Lawrence of the Ocean City Brewing Company, talking shop with Brian Privor of Washington, D.C. BY CHRIS FLOOD
Rich Gustafson of Millsboro watches over a number of different iced beers. BY CHRIS FLOOD
Dover’s Fordham Brewing Company attracted testers with this hopstacular display. BY CHRIS FLOOD
Shane Feldman of Swedesboro, N.J., reads off a winning raffle ticket. Raffle winners had their choice of prizes including posters, T-shirts and mugs. BY CHRIS FLOOD

Gary's Dewey Beach Grill held its sixth annual Dewey Beach Brewfest April 18. More than 30 breweries were represented at the event.

Money raised by this year's event is going to the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays.

Gary Cannon, Gary's owner, said he expected to donate $3,000 to $4,000 to the center.

Cannon said the brewfest is a great way for the restaurant to work with different organizations. In the past, the event has benefited Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk Buddy Walk and Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition.

It's a great way to drink some beers during the day and to help good organizations, he said.

Sally Boswell, education and outreach coordinator for the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, said the organization was pleased Gary's had chosen it to support this year. She was surprised by the event's turnout.

"By all appearances it was highly successful," she said.

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Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.

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