Is anyone going to this? Or ever gone & know if it rocks? My first time going & hoping its pretty sweet.
I've gone the last 2 years and going again this year. It is a good time, but different than a lot of the typical beer festivals. The festival is mixed into the normal overall day of the bar so it is good mix of people. The lines don't get crazy which is cool, and the releases are staged over time. There isn't hundreds being released so you can usually get everything you want. Cask Ale is different and a lot of people are not into that, so that keeps it from being crazy busy. I think there was only one time I wanted something and it ran out before I was able to get there. Enjoy!
Be Nice if they had the actual breweries and what beers were going to be there before I spend the $30 they want per ticket
Trying to create a running list of what I've heard will be there so far: Kuhnhenn- Fluffer Kuhnhenn- Conundrum Lagunitas- Undercover Investigation Shutdown w/ Mosaic Hops Blue Point- yet to be announced Blue Point- yet to be announced Short's- 30th Anniversary (English Imperial IPA) Saugatuck- yet to be announced Greenbush- Doomslayer Dark Horse- yet to be announced And at least one of these (they had not determined which yet) Aecht Schlenkerla Oak-Smoke Thornbridge Beadaca's Well smoked porter Carnegie Porter 2012 J.W.Lees Moonraker strong ale For some reason I felt like I had heard more beers listed, but I guess not. Anyone else hear of anything?
Ok, finally some official word on stuff. Not Beer listings, but breweries. http://caskalefest.blogspot.com/p/participating-breweries.html Other beers listed today: Dragonmead: yet to be announced Brewery Vivant: dry hopped Big Red Coq Founders: double dry hopped Centennial IPA Founders: double dry hopped Double Trouble
I just bought a ticket, the beer list is looking really good. Excited for Founders double dry hopped double trouble, Stone smoked porter with vanilla beans, Arcadia rum/oak aged loch down. Also looking forward to the event-exclusive Admiral Ashley's Imperial Fugglelicious 30th Anniversary IPA from Short's!
