Beer festivals; am I getting old?

Just to clean this part up:

"The 1960s case of Emmett E. Fisher shows that the tort of battery can include offensive contacts that are not necessarily physically harmful. Fisher, an African-American man, worked as a mathematician at an agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA). An electronics company had invited Fisher to attend a meeting held at the Carrousel Motor Hotel. The hotel contained a restaurant called the Brass Ring, which served the luncheon for the meeting Fisher attended.

Fisher entered the Brass Ring and grabbed a plate for lunch. The manager of the Brass Ring snatched the plate from Fisher and shouted that negroes could not be served in the club. Fisher sued the hotel for battery, seeking compensatory and punitive damages for the humiliation he suffered as a result of the manager’s conduct. A jury awarded Fisher $400 in compensatory damages and $500 in punitive damages. However, a Texas appeals court reversed, finding that there was no battery because there was no direct physical contact.

On appeal, the Texas Supreme Court reversed in Fisher v. Carrousel Motor Hotel, 424 S.W.2d 627 (Tex. 1967). The Texas high court reasoned that the tort of battery consisted of offensive contacts, as well as physically harmful contacts."

 

The few I've been to was about the beer and not geeting drunk. It was the bonus. But there are always going to be that certain few.

 

Thanks, that was the case I was saying was so famous, yet could not remember. Ticking giveth, and taketh away to the ol' noggin' memory dept.

 

My last GABF was in 2008, I believe. I'm done with it.

Now, I just go to a select few "locals"; Lander Brewfest is outdoors and always a blast. One in Casper that's pretty small but I meet up with friends at it so it's a worthy one to attend. The other I "usually" go to is the CO one in Ft Collins that is in, of course, a college town but I've never seen anything that I could say was upsetting there.

 

1) the michigan brewers guild stuff i have been to has been great
2) i am dubious of the groupon ones in NYC that don't list beers
3) the douchey law student stuff is awful

 

The douchey layperson armchair attorney stuff is even worse.

 

You're on the money. And speaking of money, maybe that's what breeds the bad behavior. There's little value in a beer fest unless you drink a lot, and drinking a lot leads to silly nonsense, or worse. At $50 or more per person to sample some beers that we might then buy, for what? I'll save my $$$ and we'll meet you at the bar.

 

I really dislike hearing the negative feedback on GABF. 2011 was my first and as a 31yo beer geek I thoroughly enjoyed both sessions I attended. Yeah, there was a lot of silly "oh!"s as some people got sloppy through the night, but I didnt witness anything but a lot of chill people who were having a good time. Having spent, what, 8 hours there, I didnt see one person making a douche out of themselves (there were a few nonthreatening asses though). Thursday was definitely very geekish, but as a beer geek, I enjoyed the notoriously frat partyish Saturday night session as my friends and I enjoyed Jolly Pumpkin, Russian River and other regional brews while the kids swarmed New Belgium, Dogfish and the others with national distro. I would recommend it to any beer lover.

 

The guys at Brewforia and from the Barley Bros. Traveling Beer show put on the best beer festivals in the PNW imo. The Boise Beer fest last summer blew Portland's Oregon Beer fest out of the water. Boise had better music, more beer, better beer, shorter lines, more food options, and was about 10 dollars cheaper.

 

Sorry but some of us have been 10+ times and recent years are nothing like it was in the past. Not to sound nostalgic and grumpy old man... it's just the way it is/was.

 

Gawd I'm not sure which is worse. Posting the elements of torts is unacceptable in any event.

 

I hear you on that. My wife and i actually left the ACBF in Boston last year because we were tired of the douchers. I'm 32 and I'd hate to think that I'm too old, but it may be true. Here in Boston we have the priveledge of hosting 10 million college students. I've never seen so much makeup and pretzel necklaces. When dudes started wrestling on the floor, we started for the door. Hoping the NERAX in Somerville MA is a bit more chill.

 

Um, that's what both of those are. Russian River Beer Revival isn't directly affiliated with Russian River Brewing, it's a big outdoor beer festival by the river. It's technically hosted by Stumptown Brewing.
http://www.stumptown.com/revival/

The Firestone Invitational is also a huge beer festival. This is the first year of it, though, so it's hard to gauge what the vibe will be. Given the sheer volume of world-class breweries there, we can only hope it will be great.
http://www.firestonebeer.com/mingle/fw-invitational-beer-fest-breweries.php

 

yes your getting old. you can always stay home and read about it on these fancy computer things on the inter web.

 

what festivals are you referring too? No bro's Ik are all hyped up about a craft beer fest. In fact, they hate any craft beer I offer them and think Budlight is good beer. I think they're way more likely to want to go to pcb than some craft beer fest. Brah

 

I don't know about the self-defense part, but the original statement was actually "people will try and knock your glass from your hand so that the crowd can yell "oohhhhhhh",", so that's intentional, not inadvertent. That was the basis of bringing up this case.

I got my first, and last, taste of a beer festival last weekend at the Austin Beer Fest. If you care to read about it, head over to the Southwest page, but it was full of people who knew nothing about beer (lots of comments about "so many beers I'd never even heard of" despite EVERY beer there being available at Specs about 5 miles away) and there were plenty of pretzel necklaces and beer pong to go around. I know this event is not emblematic of what a good event can be, but in the future, I'll do a lot more research before I commit to a festival. Live and learn.