The times they are a-changin’.
This post seems to be older than 15 years—a long time on the internet. It might be outdated.
The Great American Beer Festival (10/11/2007) was pretty awesome.
I’ve never seen so many different beers before in my life, and therein lies the problem. Being of the analytical sort, I was completely overwhelmed with my choices of beer. I knew I couldn’t taste them all, but I was unprepared for a coming with a methodology to taste what I could.
In short, I was frozen with the overwhelming task of trying to sample beer.
I basically decided that the best course of action was to follow those I knew. I followed Trevor around for a while before breaking off to go find some food.
The floor is ordered by region, which is makes it nice and easy to find the beers I knew I wanted: Alaskan Amber, Full Sail, and Buttface.
For whatever reason, The Ram didn’t have Buttface on tap! So I had to settle for the Blonde (yea, I know…poor me). Nick introduced me to the strongest commercial beer in the world: Samuel Adam’s Utopias. Holy crap. I’m not quite sure what it is, but I can assure that it does not go down like beer, and at 25% ABV1 I wouldn’t expect it to go down like a normal beer either. Oh, and at $100 a bottle, it ain’t cheap either.
I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do for next time. I’ll definitely need a better plan.
Other notes:
There is a purposely sour beer floating around the GABF. I don’t remember it’s name. I think it’s out of Nevada, but I’m not sure.
There was a free caricature artist there, Alan J. Lewis, he drew a picture of me and we chatted for a while. He’s not like most caricature artists who draw really fast. He took his time and we chatted for a while. We eventually got to talking about the Northwest and how I was from Seattle and he wanted to move to Portland. It was pretty cool and he even drew the Space Needle in the background of my caricature.
Do not drop your sampling glass on the floor. It makes a “tink tink tink” sound and everybody turns and boos you.
There are few things more amazing then a bunch of drunk people watching the Rockies play post-season baseball.
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