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When Anchor Brewing Co. calls you and asks to take part in your brewers festival it’s a sure bet your little beer bash has taken on enough mystique to create that ever elusive buzz. And such is the case with the fourth annual Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival, on tap this weekend in its new home, Roger Dean Stadium.

About 3,300-plus beer lovers are expected to attend two different events, starting with Friday’s “Field of Beers,” where 15 beers will be paired with an equal number of “bites” in an attempt to create culinary harmony between food and drink.

Saturday’s fest will include lots of great beer, plus such popular sideshows as the Silent Disco and the Best Dressed Monk contest.

When all is said and done, more than 40 different breweries from across the country will have poured samples of more than 150 distinctly unique beers. That’s a lot to choose from, I know. So, may The Beer Guy suggest a “top 10″ list of brews that should not be missed?

10. Bourbon Barrel-aged Milk Stout-Corner Café and Brewery-Smooth. With chocolate and roasted flavors, along with bourbon, of course, locally brewed in Tequesta by Matt Webster.

9. Double Diablo Imperial Amber Ale-Big Bear Brewing. Matthew Cox has created a bear of a beer, dry-hopped twice, unfiltered, with full body and plenty of drinkability, even at 8.7 percent alcohol.

8. Belgian Pale Ale-Inlet Brewing. The makers of Monk in the Trunk have come up with a special recipe just for fest season. Belgian Ale spiked with five different whole cone American hops.

7. Imperial Coffee Porter-Brewzzi. A 9 percent alcohol, dark, rich beer flavored with locally roasted Ethiopian and Panamanian coffee beans. Starbucks, eat your heart out!

6. Festivus IPA-Palm Beach Draughtsmen-Homebrew. Made with Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale in mind and dry-hopped for the rest of us.

5. Gold Clipper Ale-Kelly’s Caribbean Bar and Grill. Mike Silvernale’s golden America Pale Ale is loaded with hops and is smooth as the Key West sunset it was brewed under.

4. Glissade Golden Bock-Sierra Nevada Brewing. A new seasonal billed as a mellow take on a traditional spring Bock which helps one “slide into the sunny days of spring.”

3. Orange Honey Wheat-Jefferson Street Brewing. Made by Wesley Chastain (the former brewer of Stuart’s former Monkey King) in the hills of Lynchburg, Va. You have to try it — he’s driving all this way.

2. Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout-Cigar City Brewing. The god Hunahpu gave chocolate to the Mayans. Florida’s hottest new brewery gives it back to you in a limited-release brew flavored with Mayan chocolate and peppers.

1. Humming Ale-Anchor Brewing. A commemorative beer, made with the unusual Nelson Sauvin hop, makes its Florida debut at the JCBF. There’s huge buzz surrounding this new brew.

So there you have it, 10 down — only 140 or so to go.

Kidding.

With so many great beers on hand at the Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival, it would be nearly impossible, and inadvisable to attempt to sample them all. Better to target a manageable list of your favorites and keep your buzz at a safe and legal level.

Dan Oliver is a member of the Palm Beach Draughtsmen homebrewing club. He can be contacted at doliver@pbpost.com.

A brewer’s weekend:

Schedule of events

FRIDAY

What: Field of Beers

Where: Roger Dean Stadium, Abacoa, Jupiter

When: 6-9 p.m.

Tickets: $77, online only

Web site: jupitercraftbrewersfestival.com

SATURDAY

What: Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival

Where: Roger Dean Stadium, Abacoa, Jupiter

When: 1-5:30 p.m.

Tickets: $30.50 online, $30 at the door (cash only)