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4/28/2007 4:26:17 PM

Anyone want 2 vip tickets?????

4/28/2007 5:10:24 PM

what do you get extra with the VIP tickets?

4/28/2007 5:59:07 PM

supposedly no line, more beers, and own seating area



IM GOING TO BEER FEST!!!

4/28/2007 6:08:02 PM

nice...how much is a vip ticket

4/28/2007 6:09:30 PM

how do you go from not getting a ticket to selling two VIPs? or maybe i missed something.

4/28/2007 6:13:46 PM

i found tickets like 2 hours ago but the girl who originally said she would go couldn't. So then i thought mabey i could sell them cuz i couldn't find anyone who could go and then my friend ended up getting out of her shift so now i get to go

4/28/2007 6:29:51 PM

im not dead or in jail.... +1 in the win column

4/28/2007 6:30:33 PM

ah, well then have fun. my roommate went to the one last october. he offered me a ticket for free if i would go with him but i declined because some of the guys he was going with were real assholes. he said the lines were not as long as he thought, but that he still never ended up getting that much beer.

sounds like VIP's the way to go.

4/28/2007 6:34:58 PM

damn...i just heard its like 50 bucks for all you can drink drinks...i wish i woulda went

[Edited on April 28, 2007 at 6:52 PM. Reason : my roomates ex hit me up]

4/28/2007 6:52:28 PM

mmm it was yummy i really liked that cherry beer mmm

4/28/2007 8:17:17 PM

i liked newcastle

4/28/2007 8:39:53 PM

that cherry ale was the bomb

4/28/2007 8:43:04 PM

Cherry beer won

4/28/2007 8:47:02 PM

i smell beer idiots!!

4/28/2007 9:44:11 PM

I was the one of the people pouring at the Chimay booth for the night session

4/29/2007 12:37:40 AM

Quote :

"but that he still never ended up getting that much beer."

then he's a fucking retard

4/29/2007 2:15:09 AM

yes new glarus belgian red is an awesome beer.

but the highlight of the day for me was getting to sample dfh black and blue. as well as getting to speak with ron from jolly pumpkin.

4/29/2007 2:29:11 AM

the pabst blue ribbon was excellent, as was the yuengling lager.

4/29/2007 2:32:30 AM

I agree with all the people who said the cherry was the best.

4/29/2007 3:07:59 AM

cherry was good.

but having your own bathroom was totally worth the xtra $ for vip tickets

4/29/2007 10:17:19 AM

rasberry and blueberry ales were good.

VIP i think is over-rated...everyone told me how they were so worth it b/c you get a private bathroom and private sitting area.

my only problem was i was drinking the entire time so i never sat down and how clean does a porta potty have to be to go piss in it? i think they were well maintained between sessions and were clean (except 1 grody one). i thought that the beer festival was awesome and i enjoyed trying all of the different beers

4/29/2007 11:13:24 AM

yeah, i was there for the beer. i was walking around the whole time. a private sitting area would have been worthless.

and i went to pee twice. 30 bucks for a cleaner port-a-potty to use twice is definitely not worth it.

4/29/2007 1:57:38 PM

^i feel the same as you do

4/29/2007 2:36:16 PM

Quote :

"I agree with all the people who said the cherry was the best."

who made the cherry ale? b/c it was awesome and i want some more

the blueberry was good except it had a bad aftertaste

and what's up getting regular beer at the beer fest?

4/29/2007 4:11:04 PM

Quote :

"the blueberry was good except it had a bad aftertaste"

agreed--at first i was like yum, then i was like blecch.

4/29/2007 4:13:37 PM

^^the cherry ale, at least the one I assume everyone is talking about, is New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red, and has always been a fave of mine...have some of that and their Raspberry Tart in the fridge. You'll either have to go to Wisco or get somebody to ship it to you.

biggest surprise was Capital City from Arlington, VA...found out I like Hideaway bbq, too

was really nice being able to take my time over the course of the day (56 beers in all with numerous refills of the great ones, though a few of those samples met the trash can)

pouring beer for an hour in the afternoon was pretty fun

[Edited on April 29, 2007 at 4:45 PM. Reason : ;]

4/29/2007 4:40:49 PM

I can't remember which ones I liked and didn't like. I drank to much. I do remember trying the 14% one and remember thinking it tasted like cough syrup

4/29/2007 5:27:51 PM

Belgian Red...coming to a supermarket near you!!!

(if you live in wisconsin)

4/29/2007 5:44:52 PM

^^^ I seem to remember trying two cherry ales, unless I am confusing the first one with something else I tried. That one was the second of the two, and the one I liked less (though I still really liked it). I haven't been able to figure out what the other one was yet, though. It'll just take some time going through the list, I guess.

4/29/2007 6:27:40 PM

on a maybe 25% related note, the red oak brewery on 40 said they have plans to start bottling that shit. hope it doesn't change the taste too much

4/29/2007 8:15:24 PM

I volunteered for both sessions... in all spent 13+ hours there yesterday. I was pouring Woodchuck Cider for the second session. Second session people were D-RUNK... lol.

P.S. Belgium Style Cherry Sour Ale FTW!

4/29/2007 8:29:14 PM

Beer Fest was great! The Chocolate Stout was one of my favorites, and I liked one of the blueberries, and some of the honey porters. Unfortunately I missed the cherry one---will have to try that one next year.

4/29/2007 8:52:06 PM

such a damn shame they did this, the beach music festival, the unc state baseball game, the hank williams and skynard concert all on the same day....wish each could have had its own day.

4/30/2007 1:10:34 AM

ok i got way too drunk....maybe the afternoon session wasn't a good idea cause i passed out early saturday night

that belgian cherry might be the kriek. they had both a sour and sweet.

[Edited on April 30, 2007 at 8:18 AM. Reason : .]

4/30/2007 8:16:04 AM

All the fruity beers were a bit too much for me, esp. after I had gone through every booth in the other tent before visiting there.

As usual, loved the brooklyn brewery's belgian style, as well as a franziskanner on a warm day. The band out there (guta) was real good too.

4/30/2007 9:38:55 AM

i had a lot of good beers, but the one that stood out was actually the worst beer i tried that night.

Everything I've ever had from dogfish head has been golden, but their immort tasted like chloraseptic. it was fucking nasty. i poured that shit out.

4/30/2007 9:50:04 AM

I was working the Chimay stand in the afternoon session. That's a damn good beer.

[Edited on April 30, 2007 at 10:13 AM. Reason : all three of em]

4/30/2007 10:12:51 AM

Grande Reserve ftw

4/30/2007 10:14:18 AM

DRINK SPARKS!


Hahaha

4/30/2007 10:16:50 AM

the sunshine nectar was eek

4/30/2007 10:52:34 AM

Quote :

"The Chocolate Stout was one of my favorites, and I liked one of the blueberries, and some of the honey porters. "

chocolate beers taste too much like coffee to me

the sam adams honey porter tasted like cereal

4/30/2007 11:19:52 PM

So how would you go about getting ahold of the Cherry beer? I know they dont sell it around here, only in Wisconsin; but is there a company somewhere out there that will buy beer for you and ship it to you? A friend of mine found one such company out of the UK... but shipping for just one beer would be $178.

Anyone know of a continental US company that will ship that beer? I've looked but no luck so far..

[Edited on May 1, 2007 at 12:07 AM. Reason : look]

5/1/2007 12:06:27 AM

do they not have it at Total Wine?

5/1/2007 12:18:31 AM

if it really is the wisconsin belgian red you are talking about, the one in the wine-size bottle dipped in red wax, you're gonna have to go to wisco or make a friend up there

some people might be talking about the boon kriek, or maybe another kriek there I didn't try, which is available locally...the wisco beer is sweeter and tastes kinda like cherry pie filling, except better



[Edited on May 1, 2007 at 12:54 AM. Reason : ']

5/1/2007 12:36:48 AM

PLEASE RALEIGH AREA DISTRIBUTORS

GET SWEETWATER!!!

5/1/2007 11:13:04 AM

twisted tea peach. mmmm.

5/1/2007 11:28:17 AM

Wisconsin is far away

someone needs to increase that brewery's capacity

5/1/2007 11:26:01 PM

Lot's of great beer there that night. Here are some of my favorites:

Randallized Dogfish Head 90 min IPA
Dogfish Head Immort Ale
Boon Oude Kriek
Rodenbach Redbach
Brooklyn Local 1
Capitol City Fuel
Mash House Baltic Porter
Witkap Tripel
St. Bernardus Grotten Flemish Ale

5/2/2007 3:28:25 AM

^ The Rodenbach Redbach was my favorite one. I remembered what the bottle looked like, but not the name, so thanks for helping me figure it out

5/2/2007 9:00:36 AM