Do you plan on attending beer fests again?

I miss pouring at fests. Can't wait to get back.

 

Same here. Looks like they added an "I don't attend beer fests" option since opening the poll.

 

I’m not doing a god dam thing. If I trusted everything the government told me was ok .....good luck everybody attending.

plus I live in the most densely populated county in the most densely populated state

 

Yes.

 

Yes. I don’t like crowds or lines but after I few cold ones they don’t bother me anymore. I don’t go regularly though anyway.

 

I work for a brewery and I don't even know if we will want to participate in a beer fest or larger event in the next few months. In store samplings won't even be a thing for awhile.

 

Yes and won’t think twice about it

 

Avoiding.

 

I voted yes but with a caveat. This will come off as ultra-hipster but whatever. I dont go to mass market festivals anyway. I love festivals, but focused, more intimate ones. Brewery & Friends, or local-ish sour festivals, stuff like that.

Likely won't go wide open mass attendance kind of ones for a long time

 

Because Indiana has outlawed them or because of liability? As long as you're already allowing onsite purchases I really don't see a lot of additional risk with masks and adequate distancing.

 

Remember, a few ounces here or there adds up

 

Think I’ll stay home until they find a vaccine. I have had a couple of people I know pass away from the virus and others that have had it. Living on long island it’s to damn crowded and the people here born with the golden spoons in their mouths do whatever they want regardless of what effect it has on others. So home I stay.

 

Beer festivals would definitely be on my list of things that will wait until after a vaccine and effective treatment are developed. There is no safe or responsible way to hold one, especially since so much would depend on compliance from attendees.

 

In Southwestern Fairfield County CT, we've had some great beer festivals over the past decade. The best of which was the annual event at the Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport CT but times have changed and prior to the Pandemic that venue was being converted by Jim Koplik and LiveNation into a music venue. I don't think that will happen so quickly now and we will see neither music concerts nor craft beer fests return in the new normal.

Our lives are changed forever and it sucks but we can expect the social dynamic has to change and breweries will have to adapt to survive.

Our local craft brewer Lock City has done as well as can be expected with an online sales model for pickups and our local establishment Coalhouse Pizza is planning on a parking lot beer garden so I guess that's likely what we can expect more outdoor beer gardens where social distancing is the norm.

Stay healthy and drink great brews....

 

I rarely attend beer fest to begin with. Maybe 1 a year.

 

when it's safe (vaccine) I'll start going again. i like trying new beer without a huge commitment in $. plus i like the atmosphere and camaraderie. (sp?)