With the massive beer list now posted, wondering which are top picks among the fresh hop beers. There are an overwhelming number of intriguing looking brews ... but I can't drink them all and there are rarely reviews to guide selection. Complete list here: http://brouwerscafe.blogspot.com/
here are some semi-descriptions of the hopfest beers: http://nwbeerguide.blogspot.com/2013/09/festival-preview-wa-926-11am-brouwers.html
Bad Boy and Duet, while not fresh hopped, were the big surprises for me. Does this presage some sort of greater availability of Alpine up here or was that just Brouwer's working some magic? In my slightly biased opinion, I found Notorious preferable to Bad Boy ... but when they're both so excellent, that's academic.
Was there at noon yesterday. The Alpine's were indeed Brouwer's magic :-), don't expect to see any distro up here. Didn't have time to try anything but Bad Boy and Pfriem Mosaic single hop, both of which were fantastic.
So it's just a one day event. Got it. I see tomorrow is the welcome back party for the Shelton Brothers. I'll skip that.
