Anyone headed to APN in Duluth tomorrow? It's been a few years since we last attended & the lineup looks better this year than in the past!
We are. It looks like they got just about everybody I would want except Barrel Theory and Drastic Measures. Should be a good time.
Unreasonably jazzed about what is normally a pretty tame festival. But it's been almost two years & evidently I missed fests more than I thought I did.
100% agree. I actually like the Guild fests as compared to the Dabblers. There's more than enough decent beers to occupy my 3 1/2 hours. Plus I expect I'll spend a fair amount of time in that Forager line. Plus... Gotta get back into Fest Shape for Great Taste in a few weeks!
I know it's too late to be particularly useful, but here's a link to a spreadsheet with all of the beers at the festival (as parsed out of their SQL table as opposed to what shows in the app) in case anyone prefers this format instead off a phone app. The data in the tables was a little messy, so some of this may be misleading/inaccurate. For example, some breweries, such as Back Channel and Blue Wolf, don't have assigned booth numbers and they aren't on the list of participating breweries, so they aren't showing up in the app. They're definitely showing up in the backend, though, so maybe they'll be there? If I notice anything change in the app, I'll probably do another update right before the festival starts. https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ZXpc9djqfjNLLPqU8XyIlqzD8nPyAwk/view?usp=sharing
No idea. The data is messy - I got the the sense that some of the data is leftover from the last All Pints North in 2019 or whenever, so it could be they were at that festival.
I thought it was good. A little smoky... but the weather was good. Lots of key lime and rhubarb. A few guys brought some BA stouts. Some decent hazy. Just good to get out with people again and try some good and bad beers.
I'd give it a "B". We stumbled across a few fantastic new beers from Disgruntled & Fair State as well as old favorites from Surly & Forager. Disappointed that Forager decided "the morning of" not to bring Nillerzzz. Oh well. The bands were really bloody loud & the last one was doing covers well out of tune. And it was crowded. But overall a good fest. And as @Crazytrain83 noted, a good warm up for the Great Taste!
Yeah... I figured something was up with Nillerzzz when the app listed it as a 2:00 tapping. But I'll drink Pudding Goggles all day long.
