Once again, the New Times Beerfest was a success. 

I arrived early for VIP with my group SFLHops.  The VIP is always the best way to do a festival as you can try any beer anywhere without any waiting in line.  Once those general admissions come stampeding in there you’ll be waiting in long lines the rest of the evening.

Rather than go to VIP for the first hour, we enjoyed the general area and tried to drink from as many brewers as possible before the masses entered.  As always, brewers like Legacy, Descarga, 26 Degrees, Funky Buddha, Banging’ Banjo did a fantastic job with delicious beers.  

The only downside was that some tables were not represented by anyone that knew anything about their beer.  When I was tasting beer from Saint Arnold, I had to be the one to tell them that their beer is from Texas.  Someone asked them if it was an IPA and the girls said “no, they have the ipa” as she pointed to a different table thinking that an IPA is a beer rather than a type of beer that could be on her table and many, many other tables at the festival.  It was embarrassing for some of those beers to be represented so poorly.

img_0267
img_0284
img_0305
img_0332
img_0350
img_0351
img_0354

Click here to change this text