To let everybody interested know, The Great American beer fest starts in Denver tonight. It usually has 1200-1400+ beers to sample which makes it one of the largest beer fests in the world, all brewed in America. Anybody in the Colorado Area who doesn’t respect American beer should get their pimply ass downtown for one heck of a huge party.
They did change it so that it starts today, Thursday, and has no Sunday this year, so don’t expect to go then. They raised the prices, but rumor has it you can get cheaper tickets at Old Chicago.
P.S. it’s not a bad idea to have a travel plan home that doesn’t involve driving, It gets a little hard to tell what you’ve had to drink when your getting it one ounce at a time, and a lot of people over do it. and walk right into the arms of the swooping cops outside.
I’ll give this a little bump to remind people since were officially on the weekend.
(Plus I don’t want to be the only person in history to have created an MPSIMS thread with ‘beer’ in the title that’s stillborn.)
Once again I carefully kept notes so I would know which beers are the best. And once again after a 120 samples or so I lost track of all my notes.
the only thing I remeber is that a place called Upland that I think was in Indianapolis, had probably the best wheat beer I have ever tasted. Sam adams Also had an interesting drink called Utopia. Fairly like the tripple bock but much sweeter.
Quick general Grades: (ignoring mass produced stuff cause I wasn’t going to waste valuable stomach space on that stuff, which I know how it tastes anyway).
Pacific Northwest A+ damn you guys make some good beer. Very few disappointments, and a lot of great standouts. Especially the stouts and bitters.
Califonia A- Some Great beer, a lot of Good beer, a couplethat really suck. Pale Ales are very good
Rocky Mountains B+ We really have no amazing knockout beers here, but just a bunch of steady predictable good beer. Lots of creative and wierd beers, but usually drinkable.
Midwest B-. Some good beer, mostly average with a fair amount bad. I guess you people are too used to Mass-produced beer, cause even the Microbrews tend to be more watery than I like. Although good wheat beer in general.
Northwest C+. Pretty much the same as the midwest, a bit watery and some weird ass combination that just didn’t work. Good lagers though, but I’m mostly an ale guy.
South D. Sorry guys, but with the exception of Shiner I really didn’t find anything I liked. I was dumping out every other sample as undrinkable. Only spent a short time sampling the stuff cause I just wasn’t liking it.
Midwest gets a B- in Denver? There is a good reason for that, and it is not our bad taste.
We drink all the good stuff ourselves. Most of the good breweries in the midwest are still small. They sell all they can produce within a few states around home, so they do not bother learning the ins and outs of far away states’ beer laws just to sell a few cases.
Sure your beer festival is big, but it is INSIDE? What kind of festival is that? Great Taste of the Midwest every year for me! Sunshine, (only 400 kinds of) beer, Glass Nickel pizza, and wandering bands. A Saturday just doesn’t get any better.
