Heading Down to the Real Ale Festival
June 9, 2006 – 9:04 amGreg and I leave this afternoon to drive down to Carlsbad, California for the 9th Annual San Diego Real Ale Festival. Carlsbad is right on the Pacific coast, about 35 miles or so north of San Diego, which makes it a little less than a two hour drive for the two of us.
I decided to look around the web for other attendees, and a quick Technorati search lead me to a post by Charlzm. Here’s his take on the festival:
If you like beer (not anything with the words “Bud”, “Corona” or “Light” in the name, but real beer), then you really ought to go.
I think that’s a fair assessment. If what Mark told us during our tour of his brewery is correct, Craftsman will be bringing kegs of their fine brews down for the festival. They have a few brews that haven’t been on tap at Lucky Baldwins recently, and I’m very anxious to see if they show up at the Real Ale Festival.
I’ll try to take good notes while I’m down there so that I can at least describe all the beers that we try. The deal is that we pay $25 for a commemorative logo pint glass and 8 taster tickets. Each 5 ounce taster ticket after that is one dollar. That’s dangerous. I can try 18 fine microbrews for 35 dollars. If Greg does the same, we can try 36 brews between us. How many of those 36 will get a fair review? Only time will tell.
3 Responses to “Heading Down to the Real Ale Festival”
So, how’d it go? Any great beers to report on? And when are you going to put up the results of the Miller/Bud/Coors cheap beer challenge?
By Adam on Jun 16, 2006
Yeah, I’m pretty slow in getting the summary published, huh? It’s almost done. I’ll be in Vegas today and tomorrow, though, so it likely won’t be published until tomorrow night at the earliest.
Here’s a little to keep you going: it was awesome.
By jjk on Jun 17, 2006