Note: We are happy to announce the show is on. We are well aware of the obstacles before us but we are confident in our ability to move forward.

PinBrew staff is working closely with the Metroplex to ensure all procedures recommended by the CDC and state of Ohio are followed. We wish to keep everyone safe as the pandemic will still be an issue in some form. Closing times of the show as well as masks, social distancing, and any other recommendations shall be updated as changes occur.

I am pleased to announce a partnership and reveal of A wonderful new show coming to N.E. Ohio in 2021. Marvin Ortscheid (Formerly of the Ohio Pinball Show) and Myself (Owner of Pirates Life Pinball Co) have joined together to bring the pinball community in our region a new show, PinBrew.
Our Website splash www.Pinbrewfest.com is up. The Venue is booked April 10 2021. The Hotels are being reviewed the vendors are being invited and the Breweries are lining up. Support from the community has been overwhelming. There is still so much to do but we have hit the ground running.
Much more detail to follow.
Thank you all,

https://www.pinbrewfest.com/

Keith and Marvin
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http://www.pinbrewfest.com/

http://ohiopinballshow.com/

I’m sorry too Would have loved to make the trek to your show. We were very limited with availability at our Venue and had to work with what we have. I will reach out to you in the future to see if we can move things around a bit so as to not land on the same dates.

Sorry John,
Just this year hopefully. We had no intention on stacking our new show on the dates of Pinball at the zoo
But be assured we will fix that for 2021

Yes ,The Metroplex is a very nice venue with room to grow. The Hotels are within walking distance for all you beer lovers.
I really feel your going to enjoy the setup

I'm sorry that you are unhappy with our choice and location.The Venue was attached to a hotel at one time. The new owners decided not to keep the hotel but have invested heavily into this beautiful 30,000 sq ft facility. The hotel we are concidering as home base is one block away and was totally remodeled in the last year.There are four additional hotels in the area which gives us room to grow. The location of our show although on the wrong side of the state in your opinion allows us to welcome Western NY and PA along with Ohio. Also considering that Marvin and Myself will be transporting no less than Fifty games to start the show we thought it best to keep it in our traveling distance.Hope to see you make it in the future.

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Yes sir. We are in the beginning stages of picking our breweries. We will keep you up to date without final list.

Wishing everyone a happy Father’s Day. We are continuing to work on the show.We are thrilled to announce some of the things we have planned. But we will wait until all our ducks are in a row.

Thank You. We appreciate all the support the community is giving us. There are alot of great people in pinball.

No John,

The event is Kid /Family friendly. The fact that we will have craft beer there does not mean its intended to be a drunken free for all. People have been drinking alcohol at these shows for years whether sold by the venue/promoter or sneaking it in. This is just like taking your kids to a ball game.

Well the website is getting closer to completion but I'm getting to excited to wait, so I've added the Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/pinbrewfest/
Jump in and we can talk about the upcoming show.There is a lot of great things coming together.Beer league competition.The return of great vendors,Possible concert to end the show and start Craft Beer Week!!! much more.

We are thrilled to announce the website has been launched. We will be continually updating it in the next few week. We will be adding a game page, Vendors ,Breweries,Hotels and food.Thank you to all of our friends who have helped us to make this happen!

https://www.pinbrewfest.com/

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We are working on completing the "Bring a game"page on the website. We hope to have it complete next week.Yes you can bring a game. We have 75 games already commited before the vendors and the public (you our supporters)are counted.Not to mention arcades.

Add another amazing vendor to our food network of the show. A Moveable Feast signed up to do PinBrew!!

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"Pay attention Morty,were going to Ohio"

Welcoming another Brewery to the show!

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"Mechanical Marvels Multicades" added to the vendor list.

Thanks Kevin and Nick.

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First year commemorative poster. Thoughts ?

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LMT

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How does your Avatar feel about that?

As promised. Restored,CCC added and ready to but on the floor at PinBrew.

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Add another great food vendor to the list details coming tomorrow.

Anyone for Pierogi's? Lets welcome Babcia's to the show!

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So I met with the State Line Brewers council last night and we are tiding up the details. I can tell you that on Friday and Saturday you should have at least 12-15 types of beer to choose from.

https://sternpinball.com/events/

Thank you Zach.

My apologies .There were two event pages made.I tried to fix that and failed miserably. Please search Events for Pinbrew. Like and share Please.

The first Hotel is filling up we will be adding other hotels, but the nice thing about the Hampton is you can walk there.

Two more shopped and ready for the show.

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If you plan to attend and have more than a few Craft beers, You can walk safely to the Hampton through the parking lot without crossing the road. Once the Hampton fills up (63 rooms) we will have a show special at Comfort suites.

Thats funny I was thinking the same thing when I screen shot the pic.

The Vendor page is up! Considering being a vendor at PinBrew? Click on the link.

https://www.pinbrewfest.com/VendorRegistration/Index

Cheers

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https://www.pinbrewfest.com/Hardtop-Homecoming-pinbrew

More coming

The official dog of PinBrew 2020

I want to thank Charlie and everyone at Spooky Pinball. The HOTTEST game in pinball today,Rick and Morty will be present at inaugural show.

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https://www.pinbrewfest.com/The-Charity-at-PinBrew
Cheers to a great cause.

Thanks for the kind words, Gabe. We are really hoping to put PinBrew on the map as a great spring show in Ohio. The support from wonderful show producers like yourself is so appreciated.

The Hampton is almost sold out. We have added two more hotels. Book now!

As your Co-Producer I'll add:

Rick and Morty
Cactus Canyon Continued (Restored)
Addams Family (Restored)
Fish Tales (Restored)
Pirates of the Caribbean LE
The Hobbit
Deadpool
STTNG
Black Knight SOR LE
Johnny Mnemonic
Junkyard
Aerosmith LE
Walking Dead Premium
Game of Thrones LE
Indiana Jones, Stern
Circus Voltaire
TOTAN
Godzilla
Creature from the Black Lagoon
High Speed
Mata Hari
Firepower

For now

Limited quantity now officially available!

https://www.pinbrewfest.com/Tickets/Index

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Joining the ranks on Friday!

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Special call out and thanks to Eric at retro arcade in Sharon PA. Thanks for the gifts,appreciated and truly thrilled with the support you’re giving us at the show. Eric has promised us some really phenomenal games that most of you may not have played including Lexi lightspeed

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Things are heating up at our show!

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We do have a youth tournament director appointed. I will see if she is ready to post the details this weekend.

Look forward to seeing you!

This is not only the obligatory selfie we need. This is a picture of captain Salas flying in from Maryland with my Xenon that he kindly sold me. It will be joining us at PinBrew. Thank you captain have a safe flight.

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One more ready for the show

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BTW this pin is F*%$ng awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its hard but you keep coming back. The call outs are fantastic. I originally did not want to get this game. My 24 year old son insisted and I’m glad I listened to him.

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*Notice*
Due to the onset and increasing health concerns involving Covid -19 ( Coronavirus), along with the mandates recently placed on the state of Ohio by our Governor ,our PinBrew event has been rescheduled. The new dates are scheduled for Thursday August 20 to Saturday August 22, 2020. We wish to give the community a great show but understand the safety concerns to the public. We have worked tirelessly to give you a great event, and have planned to do so, at a time when health concerns will hopefully not be an issue. We will issue full refunds to any vendors and guest that have already purchased tickets upon their request. God Bless you all. We will come together as a nation/world to get pass this crisis, and come August we will play some Pinball ,raise a pint to humanity, and celebrate the greatness it holds!
To your health and wellbeing,
Keith and Marvin

Keith Campanelli
Co-Director,Ohio PinBrew Fest.
https://www.pinbrewfest.com/

Metroplex Expo Center
Girard,Ohio

Pinball + Beer = Life

Aug 20-22, 2020

Marvin is my partner in PinBrew and half owner of ClePin. It was left to him to decide if we should move the show so close to the other. He believes the two will compliment each other. They are totally different shows for the general public. The date we took was the only one available this year. The other option would have been to just wait until 2021. We have a lot of people in this region that wish to see this show happen.

Marvin and I have worked pretty hard to launch the show and it was tough to hang out at home working on games instead of running the show this week. Lets hope that life has enough normalcy to have the show this fall. None the less we have already booked the venue for 2021. The current issues we face have begun to make me realize how important it is to have this show eventually. Spending time enjoying the friendships at these shows is so needed and missed. Hope your all well and we will see you soon.

We will have a decision on July 1st

With much frustration Marvin and I have decided to call the pinball on 2020.The obstacles facing all of us with Covid -19 are to much to successfully launch the areas newest show. We have worked very hard to make this show great but feel we need to do a reboot. See you next year hopefully without worry.

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You are correct. April 7-9 2022 FYI

Never going to happen.

Marvin and I will make a determination in the beginning of February.

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What are you bringing?

https://www.pinbrewfest.com/Forms/MachineRegistration

Register them

So I’m not gonna get into any of the politics of which state is doing what and how good or bad they are doing. My partner and I have discussed various options. We considered trying to move the show back a month or two but there are no other weeks available for the rest of 2021 at the Metroplex. They’ve been having events since November with success. We’ve been offered the entire 30,000 ft.² as opposed to the original 15,000 ft.² so we can still practice some social distancing and not keeping the machines tight together. We are not delusional, we realize there is still COVID-19, we also know the 12% of the state of Ohio has already received their first dose and by the time the show is here we strongly believe that anyone vulnerable will have received their vaccine if they choose. Marvin and I would not even consider having a show if this was not the case. We are also willing to take the financial risk because we worked very hard last year to get the show off the ground and had to cancel it twice, if we decided to cancel the show again I’ll be honest I would have no desire to try a 3rd year. someone has to go first and we’re OK being the first show. If anyone is uncomfortable ,we understand, stay home,we most certainly are not judging you. For the rest of you that are comfortable with wearing a mask and following guidelines come,enjoy the show. I was just texting a new Pinball friend and asked him how he felt about the show. His comment was “I know how to wear a mask responsibly can’t wait to come”.

By the way we have also reached out to almost every vendor that signed on for the original show and everyone of them is comfortable coming and setting up. That says a lot right there. I don’t think that would’ve been the case six months ago. But we’re better educated than we were then.

No matter what your opinions are or your views on the pandemic, Marvin and I wish you all good health. We will start adding updates in the coming weeks as to our charity that were using the vendors the food trucks etc.

www.pinbrewfest.com

Updates this week

No worries we will be doing this show for years to come.

Then don’t! You don’t agree with our show or our opinion than don’t come .I’m not going to get into a debate on you. Stay home.you have expressed your opinion.much appreciated.move on.We will do all that is expected of us as show promoters. We will follow all the CDC guidelines.
Oh BTW
https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards/covid-19-vaccine/covid-19-vaccination-dashboard
Again, If you are not comfortable we do not want you to come.

Smokeworx has signed on again. I’m not gonna tell you how amazing the brisket is. You’re just going to need to experience it personally.

Awesome,getting my second tomorrow. See you at the show

Stopped in to visit one of our breweries today to discuss what beers they’ll be bringing to the show.

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Another day another amazing brewery. Birdfish Beer Companies selection for the show is my favorite, Scripted and Night at the Roxberries.

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Any interest in playfield glass?

Is that standard glass? There’s standard, wide , extra wide( stellar wars) And safecracker. There might be a few others but those are the basics

We are still pricing it but it looks to be around $30per

Looking forward to seeing you there!

I just spent the afternoon walking the 30000sq ft at the Expo center. Our event coordinator has been putting on shows since November and has some wonderful ideas on how to have a successful show safely. Marvin and I cant wait!

Just added to the show for Saturday.

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Wow ,Check out the list of games already registered We are still 6 weeks away!

https://www.pinbrewfest.com/Games/Index

I will reach out to everyone in the coming week that is already submitted. Busy this week finishing up with the beer vendors and lining up the food trucks.

Star Trek the next herniation

All good. We have plenty of space

Less than a city block ,both Hampton and comfort.

So happy to have another great selection of amazing food at the show! A Movable Feast joins us on Thursday April 8th.

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Thank you Dave and George I enjoyed talking with you today. Looking forward to the Podcast.

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Hampton 95/
Comfort 85/

Prepping another,well kind of Pinball

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Are you hungry yet? We are happy to welcome Roxbury Pizza Co to the show on Friday April 9th.

Real wood fired pizza......... mmmmm....

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Can't thank you gents enough. I was a lot of fun too.

So lets finish out the Fantastic Food Lineup with Smoke Worx.
AAHH, Beer and Brisket! I can taste it now.

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The Vendor list is growing!!! I will update it early next week.

Thanks to Josh and Scott at LoserKid Pinball Podcast.

https://soundcloud.com/loserkidpinballpodcast/ep-56-pinbrew-with-keith-campanelli?fbclid=IwAR28nRez5ZZJSGBb74wjdDz3tnvcEwgD-XFlxCqCpDsObIn7vK_wDvs2aek

Bring a game

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22 titles available. Bring your beauty to the show and receive a Hardtop T and be entered in the School of Hard Knocks Tournament. The winner will receive a Hardtop of their choice. 16 titles still available for entry into the tourney.

https://www.pinbrewfest.com/Hardtop-Homecoming-pinbrew

Vendors can start setting up at 10 AM on Thursday