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

Florida Beer Company Panorama

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.

Week 52, Stone Imperial Russian Stout

Very chocolately and roasted with a nice bitter finish.

German Bierfest 8-28 Atlanta

The beerfest down in Woodruff Park last Saturday was a ball. Lots of interesting people and some not so bad beer. I have to say that I generally don't really like German beer (bier) but the dunkels made it an OK day. Very early on I was taking some photos of one of the bands playing early and ended up wearing some of my beer, I can be a klutz at times.

I met up with Dan and Kathy about 3:30 and then promptly lost them when we went off for another refill of our cups. Tried to find them by going back to where I originally saw them but still couldn't find them. Got a text about 5:30 from them asking if I had "ditched" them. Certainly not.

It rained about that time as well, just started as a drizzle and got under some trees with everyone, then all of a sudden the bottom fell out and we all ran for the "tents". Hung out for about 10-15 minutes and it cleared right up. Many people didn't really get wet at all.

one slipped through my fingers

I didn't get to the Highland Beerfest this year, it may have even been the first year or it is what was once the Creative Loafing Beerfest. I'm thinking about the German Beerfest this weekend and then next month there is the Grayson Blues and Beerfest so...