BC Craft Beer Tasting
wow, wish i could remember even half the beers i tried last saturday night at Just Here for the Beer's BC Craft Beer Tasting at the edgewater casino.
but i'm sure i can only recall about a quarter of them. "free for all beer swill" might have been a more appropriate name for this event.
and before you think i'm besmirching the good name of just here for the beer or vancouver craft beer week, let me just say that this review is fueled by incomplete memory, prompted by already having pub crawled for seven hours prior to arrival at this event. to say that i had my beer goggles on would be being most generous to me. so take it all in with however much salt you find necessary.
pros: the little taster glasses were more than adorable, the lighting, while a bit harsh for such an event lead to really great photos of my friends and i making asses of ourselves, there were more beers available to try than i could possibly get to, everyone was happy, the pourers were friendly and liberal with their measures, fun to be in the casino when the beer ran out, with cafeteria available for any mopping up necessary, theatre seating so if you needed a breather you could still watch all the crazy action.
cons: very few actual beer reps there, most pourers were just there to pour whichever beer you pointed at, there was no rhyme or reason to a lot of the beer tables (i.e. several breweries at each and then the rest of that brewery at a table elsewhere in the room), some lecherous men in the crowd, felt more like a frat party than a beer tasting.
it was fun though! i had a great time and so did all of my friends. and $40 was a very reasonable price for as much beer as you can drink.
would i go again next year? i don't think so.
breweries i recall being there: phillips, russel, dead frog, howe sound
good thing this wasn't a test. i so would have failed and had to repeat the course. which would not have been such a bad thing i guess!
but i'm sure i can only recall about a quarter of them. "free for all beer swill" might have been a more appropriate name for this event.
and before you think i'm besmirching the good name of just here for the beer or vancouver craft beer week, let me just say that this review is fueled by incomplete memory, prompted by already having pub crawled for seven hours prior to arrival at this event. to say that i had my beer goggles on would be being most generous to me. so take it all in with however much salt you find necessary.
pros: the little taster glasses were more than adorable, the lighting, while a bit harsh for such an event lead to really great photos of my friends and i making asses of ourselves, there were more beers available to try than i could possibly get to, everyone was happy, the pourers were friendly and liberal with their measures, fun to be in the casino when the beer ran out, with cafeteria available for any mopping up necessary, theatre seating so if you needed a breather you could still watch all the crazy action.
cons: very few actual beer reps there, most pourers were just there to pour whichever beer you pointed at, there was no rhyme or reason to a lot of the beer tables (i.e. several breweries at each and then the rest of that brewery at a table elsewhere in the room), some lecherous men in the crowd, felt more like a frat party than a beer tasting.
it was fun though! i had a great time and so did all of my friends. and $40 was a very reasonable price for as much beer as you can drink.
would i go again next year? i don't think so.
breweries i recall being there: phillips, russel, dead frog, howe sound
good thing this wasn't a test. i so would have failed and had to repeat the course. which would not have been such a bad thing i guess!
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