Smyrna Beerfest 2010

As usual
I met up with my friends from Beer Connoisseur Magazine, Lisa and a buddy here. Ended up buying a hat this time, got to help my friends. Heard they are going to be at the Hoptoberfest next week on Oct 2nd. The Smyrna fest is generally always a small one, the beer selection was OK, lots of the regular stuff and I tried to mainly try new beers over just having all the beer I could. I needed to get back to my neck-in-the-woods for the Gator game about 7pm so I wasn't going to over do it.

I've only had one of the four beers here before the beerfest, The HIPA was OK but the one on the far left was a "berry" beer and the Hex was just too light for my tastes. Budweiser has now commercialized and dumbed down the craft beer market as well.

ie. nice labels but the beer is just sub-standard.

These girls were having the most fun you can have at a beerfest with your clothes on. They danced whatever dance the person who finished a bottle wanted and I'll bet they even made up a few that afternoon.

Florida Beer Company

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Florida Beer Company

Went here during my visit to Melbourne, FL to see my parents over Labor Day, (for the week).

They have a pretty big place and had just finished a High Gravity IPA called Swamp Ape that had released into several local pubs but was not yet in bottles. They implied that stuff should be at stores in about 3 weeks.

The rest of there beer selection was just the regular lagers and pilsners with the occational American wheat.