Firestone walker beer fest

Just came in here to echo everyone's sentiment...awesome event FW! I was lucky enough to get a pour of Annularity from the fiftyfifty tent. The DL lived up to all expectations...can't wait til next year!

 

Hope everyone has as good of a time as I did. Poured at the FW booth for about an hour and a half and then hit the rest. Poured a ton on DDBA and Sucaba. All the brewers that I talked with were already looking forward to coming back next year, so I think we've started something good here.

 

Best festival I've ever been to. And despite my complaints, both Lagunitas and lost abbey each poured one rarity (waldo's and mo Betta bretta). Just brilliantly executed on every front, other than putting 3 Floyd's in the center of the festival. Would have been better at the edge.

 

That party exceeded my expectations by a long way. Lines moved very quickly and big beers kept flowing. I was certain some things would run out. I was left wanting nothing. I may show up at 130 next year to avoid the stampede. That initial stampede was silly only because there was enough for everyone.

 

ADELAIIIIIIIIIIDE!!!!!!!!!

Great times, great people, great beers, great cornhole.

 

can anyone post a beer list? or is it online somewhere of what they had there?

 

I was near the front of the line when they opened the gates, and the giant crowd of people all b-lining to the Three Floyds booth was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Dark Lord was totally worth it though, and the entire event was a ton of fun.

 

Wish my group could have made it over that way, but we were too damn comfy in our rooms. We had a great list of beers though... Duck Duck Gooze, Ithaca Brute and LeBlue, Batch 3 Beatification, King Henry, CBS, and a couple bottles of Ruination 10 we received from a very generous friend.

 

This is from the small pamphlet they handed out, but there were changes to the printed list: Tried to make changes accordingly, but I was a little... impaired at the time.
Alesmith IPA / Brewer's Blend Barrel Aged Speedway
Alpine Duet / Bad Boy
Anderson Valley Wee Geech / Gatlin Damnosus Sour Barley Wine
Ballast Point Even Keel / Victory at Sea
Beachwood BBQ Thrillseeker IPA / Hop Ninja DIPA
Bear Republic Double Aught / Altered Beast
Bell's Oarsman / Wild One
Boneyard Bonefied / Femme Fatale
Boulevard Zon / Tank 7
The Bruery Hottenroth / White Oak Also poured bottles at different hours Fruet / Black Tuesday and others...
Dogfish Head Festina Peche / Two Blind Mices
Fifty Fifty Charlie Brown Ale / Elicpse Elijah Craig 18 (I think) They also tapped a special barley wine (Name??)
Firestone Notables Parabola, Sucaba, Velvet Merkin
Founders Centennial / Curmudgeon
Full Sail LTD 05 / Top Sail BB Aged Porter
Golden Road Get Up Offa that brown / Hudson Porter
Green Flash 30th st / Saison Diego
Hollister Hippie Kicker / Tiny Bubbles
Kern River Just Oustanding / Dirty Hippie Imperial Red
Lagunitas IPA / Lil Sumpin Sumpin and I think Waldo's Special Ale
Lost Abbey Witch's Wit / Red Barn / Lost & Found / Mo Betta Bretta (which was delicious!)
Mikkeller Zummer Zitra / Big Worse Barley Wine
Moonlight Death & Taxes / Legal Tender
Moylan's Pomegranate Wheat / Kilt Lifter
Nebraska Violet Tendencies / Hop God
New Belgium not listed and didn't hit booth
Odell St. Lupulin / Friek
Pizza Port Not Listed and forgot .. I want to say there was a BA Scotch Ale
Revolution Dos Osos / Coup D'Etat
Russian River Pte / Supplication
Sierra Nevada Hip's Helles / Knock on Wood
Southern Tier Live / Bourbon Backburner BW
Stone LeVariation / Ruination 10th Anniv
Sun King Popcorn Pilsner / Velvet Fog
TAPS Crystal Pils / Imperial Ballnese Stout
Three Floyds Zombie Dust / BBA Vanilla DL
Triple Rock Not Listed
Trumer who cares
Way Beer APA / Amburana
Yo-Ho Yona-Yona / Tokyo Black

Didn't come close to hitting all of them but had a great time! It was a great event. Cheers!

 

Barleywine was Annularity, poured from a 3L jerobaum.

 

They were pouring BART from bottles as well.

Pizza port had brandy and bourbon BA scotch ales. Ballast Point had Sculpin as well. The Bruery also poured Smoking Wood, Oude Tart, Sans Pagaeia and something else out of bottles. Triple Rock had a stout of some sort.

 

On the list above it does not have Golden Road Berlinerweisse but they poured it pretty much the whole event and it was probably my favorite beer of the day, the only one that I went back to for multiple pours.

Edit: Alpine was pouring New Millennium as well and Russian River was pouring Saison Blonde

 

!!!ADELAIDE!!!
I came away from this trip with a new and/or heightened appreciation of berliner weissbier, Los Angeles classic rap radio, cornhole, sunscreen, tail lights,...and whales, bro.

I just hope I don't end up on the Bad Traders List. That would be so embarrassing!

 

Triple Rock brought their Barrel Aged Keyser Soze Imperial Stout.

 

There has to be a story here...

 

Do I need to add a stop on my trip?

 

Honestly I would call them and see if they have the Berliner on tap when you are in LA. I just sent them a email requesting they start canning this beer ASAP. If you go there I might make you bring me a down a growler haha.

 

I felt the same way about that beer and asked about growlers and they said they do not offer fills of it at this time. Outstanding beer.

 

Bummer to hear that. I'm really hoping that the feedback they received from the festival will make them think about canning it.

 

Might be hard to acquire that much lactic acid to make a full run of it.