BEER!
May 19, 2008 at 8:14 amDC
Because Saturday was such a beautiful day we decided our mid-day time would be best spent indoors at a beer festival. This was no ordinary beer fest though, oh no, this was Savor: an American Craft Beer and Food Experience. Savor hosted 48 craft/micro breweries from all around the good ol’ US of A as well as a great sampling of food that was meant to complement the various styles of beer. Held in the very impressive gala space at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at 13th and Constitution Savor made for a somewhat “high brow” festival, I suspect that was their goal anyway. The crowd was about 95% male and many from the brewing industry were present. And yes, the guys (or at least one guy who is burnt into my memory) who write for the beer magazines/websites are exactly what you would picture: about 90 lbs over weight, wearing a food stained polo shirt that is trying its damnedest to cover the gut but is only maintaining a half tuck, some scraggly unruly facial hair, and a beer belly that even Homer Simpson would be envious of.
Throughout the weekend Savor held 3 sessions and hosted over 2,100 people. Despite the large crowds it was not hard to work your way up to the various booths to get a sample. Patrons were provided with a dainty 2 oz glass for tasting and many of the representatives from the breweries had pretty liberal pouring policies. Each brewery had 2 beers to sample, so 48 breweries at 2 beers and 2 oz’s equals 192 oz of beer for sampling. This works out to 16 twelve ounce beers and at $85 per ticket we have an approximate per beer cost of $5.31……so it would have been just as costly to belly up to a bar for a few hours.
I’ve always said “the sign of a good beer festival is when you take a nap (read: pass out) afterwards and when you wake up have no idea if it is AM or PM”. Using that as the rubric I would consider Savor a smashing success because I hadn’t the faintest idea if it was morning or night when I woke up at 8 (PM).
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May 19th, 2008 at 11:30 am
this story makes you sound like shambles. also, if you did this on saturday, and went to the wine festival with mom and dad yesterday, that DEFINITELY makes you shambles. hahaha