Meh. I'll take Pizza Port Strong Ale any day...

Thanks for not telling me about this YESTERDAY!

Enigmamf: Meh. I'll take Pizza Port Strong Dead Guy Ale any day...

FTFM

Will they be serving DREWBREW?

Says people that have never been to Munich, or even smaller events in Germany.

Day old news is a boner.

Trance750: Thanks for not telling me about this YESTERDAY!

That's an awful lot of macrobrews. Now THIS is a beerfest!

/not a beer snob, just a craft beer enthusiast.

A beer fest in San Francisco? Won't everyone run screaming because they can't find a gluten-free beer made solely by Fair Trade brown people in a repressed Asian government?

Yeah, I'll still stick with the Great Taste of the Midwest.

Still no cure for jackasses who think a metric assload of hops is a substitute for making good beer.

Swing by Portland at the end of July. Then we'll talk.

RedPhoenix122: Trance750: Thanks for not telling me about this YESTERDAY!

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I wasen't even thinking that, but very well played

/golf clap

Trance750: RedPhoenix122: Trance750: Thanks for not telling me about this YESTERDAY!

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I wasen't even thinking that, but very well played

/golf clap

To be fair, when I saw the date, that's what popped into my head as well.

GQueue: Yeah, I'll still stick with the Great Taste of the Midwest.

Came to say this. I stopped going for the past few years, when they shortened the time of the event and raised prices. We use to know local bar owners that would hook us up with free tickets, but when that hookup dried out we kinda stopped going.

Link

i'll throw this out there.

The Liverpool CAMRA beerfest is held in the crypt of the cathedral.

Here's the list from this year's festival: Link

One of these days, before I croak, I am going to Munich for Octoberfest

Trance750

Thanks for not telling me about this YESTERDAY!

The first rule of Beerfest is you don't talk about Beerfest.

Smeggy Smurf: Still no cure for jackasses who think a metric assload of hops is a substitute for making good beer.

The hops gives you a microbuzz.

I can't feel my legs!

Let's hope there's more beer snobs.

StoPPeRmobile: Smeggy Smurf: Still no cure for jackasses who think a metric assload of hops is a substitute for making good beer.

The hops gives you a microbuzz.

I prefer the macrobuzz from rum and whiskey

I wonder what the line for the pisser is like at these things?

And since this is San Fran, can we get the obligatory "everybody's going to be drinking everybody else under the table" joke out of the way?

Lone Stranger: I wonder what the line for the pisser is like at these things?

It depends how well run they are. Long lines would be a sign of bad planning.

pueblonative: And since this is San Fran, can we get the obligatory "everybody's going to be drinking everybody else under the table" joke out of the way?

Are "tapping a lot of bungholes" jokes still okay?

non-stop dub step music and a gut full of mixed, over-yeasted sludge brews - yay !!! where do I sign up?

Ed Finnerty: pueblonative: And since this is San Fran, can we get the obligatory "everybody's going to be drinking everybody else under the table" joke out of the way?

Are "tapping a lot of bungholes" jokes still okay?

RedPhoenix122: Enigmamf: Meh. I'll take Pizza Port Strong Dead Guy Ale any day...

FTFM

Um... mine is actually a strong ale FESTIVAL, not just some beer....

Not a beer snob per se, but I WILL say this: Real beer does not come from a can.

Trance750: Not a beer snob per se, but I WILL say this: Real beer does not come from a can.

Surly says WUT.

Trance750: Not a beer snob per se, but I WILL say this: Real beer does not come from a can.

For sure. The beer I buy is ONLY available in vessels carved out of moon rocks.

/don't even bring up how long the line was to get it

nah, go to Europe - Belgrade Serbia in particular for a huge beer/music fest...

http://www.belgradebeerfest.com/activ e/en/home.html
August 15-19, 2012

Over 5 days in 2011, over 500,00 people attended. FREE admission too!

Trance750: Not a beer snob per se, but I WILL say this: Real beer does not come from a can.

You are a fool and a tool.

I've never met a beer festival I didn't like. Okay, maybe Altamont was kind of a drag.

Trance750: Not a beer snob per se, but I WILL say this: Real beer does not come from a can.

Heady Topper renders your argument null.

Meh..... Amateur at best..... Everyone knows the Oregon Brewers Fest kicks that wussy Californian brewfest arse.... There is a reason Portland is called BEERVANA!

When you have to have four brew fests a year, then come talk to us junior.....

Also the Oregon Brewers Festival was the only one to have Widmer Bro. Bourbon Bock. Yes a Bock stored in bourbon barrels that was 11.9% alc by vol.......


http://www.oregonbrewfest.com/

Oh and that brewery that brought the sour-beers, please don't come back, your Brewer-fest card has been revoked.... ..... The rams pee was better.....

That's not a beerfest:

This is a beer fest.

Props to my home town :-P

Come to Vancouver Island for some tasty tasty brews. Phillip's Brewery Hop Circle, Hoperation Tripel Cross, Amnesiac Dopplebock, Vancouver Island Brewery Double Decker IPA, heck even Race Rocks Ale is good.

On a side note, any Fark parties to happen in Minnesota late next month? I'm coming down to conquer the U.S., or at least that state. St. Paul be the city.

dholway: Lone Stranger: I wonder what the line for the pisser is like at these things?

It depends how well run they are. Long lines would be a sign of bad planning.

I went to one last spring that appeared to have plenty of restrooms, but the way they did the fest opening the crowd rushed in and drank all the same time so everyone had to pee at the same time. The lines were horrible. The ladies got the worst of it.

$65 for all the beer you can drink - in a 3 hour window, standing in this crowd...


to get a "sample" sized beer in one of these glasses.


Uh, no thanks.

Has anyone been to the Philly beer fest? It's coming up in June and I've never been before. Should I get my hopes up?

CitizenTed: A beer fest in San Francisco? Won't everyone run screaming because they can't find a gluten-free beer made solely by Fair Trade brown people in a repressed Asian government?

There's always at least a couple organic, fair-trade brewers, and at least one guy claiming to use hemp in his brewing process at any brewfest. Why should SF be any different?

Saturn5: $65 for all the beer you can drink - in a 3 hour window, standing in this crowd...
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to get a "sample" sized beer in one of these glasses.
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Uh, no thanks.

THE MUG OF SHAME!!!

Yeah... that looks like a PITA to me.

Being the weekend guy at the brewery, I don't get to go out very often to the festivals. I'm down in the mines and giving the Saturday tours. A nice captive audience.

and once you get down to it, I don't much care for crowds nor do I care for obnoxiously drunk people, so Maybe its a good thing.

however, I think I'm going to the BOD (Brewer On Duty) for a festival in Northern Virginia in June.

Jclark666: CitizenTed: A beer fest in San Francisco? Won't everyone run screaming because they can't find a gluten-free beer made solely by Fair Trade brown people in a repressed Asian government?

There's always at least a couple organic, fair-trade brewers, and at least one guy claiming to use hemp in his brewing process at any brewfest. Why should SF be any different?

And if they actually do, its a handful of malted hemp seeds tossed in the mash just for the claim.

thing is, Federal Law doesn't allow them to advertise if you do throw hemp in there. so there isn't much of a point.

This is an awesome beer and cheese festival. So many brews. Goose Island showed up last year with a beer they made special just for that event. No crowds, lots of beers, all the cheese you could eat, and $30.00.

naughtyrev: This is an awesome beer and cheese festival. So many brews. Goose Island showed up last year with a beer they made special just for that event. No crowds, lots of beers, all the cheese you could eat, and $30.00.

Once again...you could have posted this YESTERDAY!

The problem with any good beer festival is that once they become popular, they become a huge tourist trap and a pain in the ass because of the crowds. For as awesome of an experience as Munich was, you wouldn't get me back there for Oktoberfest if the trip was paid for. The best beer fests you'll ever attend are the ones held by smaller towns in Germany. Nothing more that a beer tent, a few carnival rides, some food stands and a band playing traditional German songs.