Be a VIP

While we already know how important you are, here's your chance to make sure everyone else knows it too...

For the first time ever we're offering a few lucky chili cook-off attendees the opportunity to reserve a special seat in our VIP area, along with all the other perks being a VIP brings.  For just $100 you will get the following: 

• One reserved seat at a table in our exclusive VIP Area

• Unlimited chili samples

• One vote for your favorite chili cook

• One beer ticket for each of the 5 Blind Beer Battles

• Special VIP-sized pours of each beer purchased from our Local Brewery Booths 

• a commemorative Downtown Chili Showdown pint glass

• a highly sought after, difficult to acquire Red Shoe Cville light-up beer boot mug 

C'mon - you know you've always wanted a light-up beer boot mug AND wouldn't you just LOVE having the best seat in the house reserved just for you?!?!

VIP Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis and are available on-line through April 16 only.  Visit the Downtown Chili Showdown website to purchase your VIP Seats today!

Hot 101.9: What's on Tap?

Check out RSC President Brooke Jenkins as she talks chili and beer with Three Notch'd Brewing Company Brewmaster Dave Warwick and Hot 101.9's PJ Styles in the first awesome "What's On Tap" segment!

Brew Ha Ha

Imagine a day filled with tasting incredible chili from amazing local cooks and restaurants accompanied by beer from Charlottesville's best local breweries...Well, that is exactly what we have in store for you on April 18!

In addition to our annual Chili Cook-Off this year, Red Shoe Cville will be hosting Cville's first ever blind beer battle - the Downtown Chili Showdown Brew Ha Ha! We're going to take away the logos from your favorite beers and let YOU decide - purely on taste - who brews your favorite beers!! Added bonus...it's for the kids and families of Ronald McDonald House of Charlottesville!

Categories will include IPA, Wheat, Malty/Brown/Stout, Lager and a Brewer's Choice. Tasting flights can be purchased for $5, entitling purchaser to vote for one beer per flight.  Additionally, each brewery will have a beer of their choice available for purchase at their booth for $5.

Participating breweries include: Three Notch'd Brewing Company , South Street Brewery, Blue Mountain Brewery, Devils Backbone Brewing Company, and Wild Wolf Brewing Company.


Stay tuned for more info....