EBF Questions

Is there brewery merch available at this event or is it in the same vein as night of the funk with no merch for sale ie. Glasses, shirts, etc

 

Anyone have any idea of what beers we'll see at the pre-throwdown? Or where to find out?

 

Because most people use salted pretzels, which messes with your tastebuds and doesn't really help to neutralize the palate. If people were really serious, they would use a more neutral-flavored food. Or if they were smart, they'd just go over to Food Should Be Good, because it doesn't make that much of a difference at a fest like this.

The real reason they draw the ire of people like myself and others who attend fests is that they basically announce "I'm here to drink so many beers!! ZOMG they have 120 Minute!!!" It just makes people like like a total dweeb and n00b. This is a crowd that loves their cargo shorts, though, so...

 

Two words: Waffle Cabin. Screw pretzel necklaces, eat a sugar crusted waffle halfway through the fest. You'll never consider a pretzel again.

 

Everyone keeps saying to buy food during the fest. I don't want to spend a bunch of time waiting in line to buy food. I'm not driving out to Boston and spending a bunch of money on a hotel and paying to get into this beer fest to try food there. Just wanted a fast, convenient way to snack on something and cleanse my palate. I've already given up on the idea of a pretzel necklace because I don't want to enrage all the cool fest veterans who apparently are more concerned with the snack around my neck and the possibility that I'm not a craft beer expert than they are with actually getting their noses out of the air and smelling the amazing beers being sampled. Oh well. I'll live with water.

 

Seriously, the food vendors there are worth checking out. Once you smell the waffles, you'll want one. The lines typically aren't very long either.

I was the same way and didn't want to check out anything aside from beer the first year I went, but quickly changed my mind once I saw the food.

 

I think I waited 30 seconds for a waffle last fest. While I still had beer in my hand. It'll work out, I promise you.

 

Well if the lines really aren't long thats another story. And I have had Waffle Cabin waffles in the past... totally awesome.

 

This will be my 4th EBF and going into the first one people were raving about the waffles, didn't understand until I tried one. This year bringing some first-timers and they know a waffle stop is mandatory.

Grab an RIS you want to sip, get in line for a waffle, enjoy the pairing.

 

Pro-tip: Food Should Be Good hands out crackers/chips fo free. And no one's ever near their table. They're also very nice people.

Waffle Cabin is an absolute must, and due to the simple nature of the business, there are rarely any lines, and if so, they move more quickly than any pouring line.

 

I wish I had come up with the waffle cabin business idea...they're at every ski area I visit with lines of people waiting to shell out whatever those crack waffles cost. I eat the chocolate covered ones and can't help look like a messy child afterwards trying to lick gooey choocolate off my face, hands, shirt...

It also paired beautifully with some coffee-BCBS at another fest I was at not long ago

 

At all the BA fests ive been to, the water stations are in the absolute most convenient spot possible. You wont be hunting them down.

 

That's funny...I assume they are going to be cleaning their palate between brews and in the process having a few salty carbs to help with the booze...I hate blue moon and have been to hundreds of beer festivals...

They are called festivals for a reason......

 

They are a good idea...haters will hate and drink... and pretzel necklace wearers will eat and drink

 

haha...funny...

"I've already given up on the idea of a pretzel necklace because I don't want to enrage all the cool fest veterans who apparently are more concerned with the snack around my neck and the possibility that I'm not a craft beer expert than they are with actually getting their noses out of the air and smelling the amazing beers being sampled."

Take out the word "veterans" and insert with "Beer Snobs"...

 

Hold up. You're not going to where the pretzel necklace even though you really want to? You're hating on people who are hating on the pretzel necklace, but then are conforming to their standards nonetheless. Seems odd.

Also, take it easy, you've got multiple hours in this thing. If you drink beer for every second of the fest you'll be trashed in no time. You're going to have to stop and take a breather, even if it's only a short one, at least once or twice. Plan accordingly and make your "breathers" the same time you want to grab grub or get water. It's not that complicated.

 

Is there a way to validate the tickets? I bought two from a fellow Ba and I'm coming from NJ. If I were to be turned away, I'd be very upset.