Tickets on sale for Main Street Hops for TECH

By JUDD WEIL 
Hutch Post

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Tickets are on sale for this year’s Main Street Hops for TECH, happening Friday, May 5 in Downtown Hutchinson. 

This annual opportunity will allow people to stroll through local  businesses and sample a variety of beers from local and regional brewers. 

These craft beers will all be carefully paired with hor d’oeuvres from local restaurants. 

“The Hops event is an event where we've got about 15 different local Downtown Hutch businesses that open up their doors to provide treats and food and it is all paired with a local beer all provided by a local or regional brewery,” Lacey Mills, TECH Director of Marketing and Foundation Development, said. “We have had a partnership with City Beverage, which is a local company here in town, for 17 years actually and they have sponsored both our Brewmasters dinner and our Main Street Hops event.”  

According to Mills, 15 different kinds of beer will be featured.  

“You’re going to see your IPAs, ambers, you’re also going to see sour beers, and beers that are new to the market as well,” Mills said. “We also tried to do a good job of featuring local breweries, so whether that's our Hutchinson breweries here with Salt City or Sandhills, but you will probably also see some of the breweries that are up in McPherson or in the Wichita market as well.” 

The Main Street HOPS for TECH event will raise funds for TECH, a 501(c)(3), and their activities.  

“It helps support the variety of programs and services that we provide to the people that we serve,” Mills. “We serve about 220 people here in Reno County who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. This helps provide that with our day service program that supports our art program, residential services, etcetera.”  

Tickets are $50 per person and can be purchased at the TECH website. Only 400 tickets are available. 

Only those age 21 and over are able to participate.  

“This is a really fun night for our community to get out, have a good time with friends, but also to support a great cause and it not only supports Tech and the services that we provide, but they're also getting out and supporting our local Downtown Hutch community as well,” Mills said.  

Event check-in will be at the TECH Art Gallery located at 10 E. First Ave.  

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