Thanks for not telling me about this YESTERDAY!

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

FTFM

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.