MCBF

This weekend was the third annual Magic City Brewfest! As I mentioned previously, we decided to volunteer this year for one of the sessions so we could get in for free to the other session. We were some of the last few to register, so we had to work the Saturday session and we got to go to the Friday session for free (we ended up saving almost $70, so worth it!). Friday night we got there an hour early (true to fashion when there is beer involved). Our friends followed suit and arrived shortly after us. We hit up the food first which was brilliant, then enjoyed some high gravity and new-to-Alabama beers along with some old favorites (Yuengling) for the rest of the night. Some highlights include The Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout, Ommegang (not sure which kind), Yazoo Hefeweizen, Good People Snake Handler IPA (barf!), and some Lindemans Framboise.

Some of the group with Stuart, the president of Free the HopsYes, the J. Clyde was there serving beer from a converted fire truck. Awesome

Saturday we had to head back to volunteer and to be honest, we weren't super excited to have to spend our whole Saturday there (we had to be there by 1:30 and the beer fest was from 3-7). However, like I said before it was totally worth it to save nearly $70. And then it totally became even MORE worth it when at the end of the festival the Free the Hops folks came by and said we could each take home a couple of 6 packs! It ended up working out as best as it possibly could. There were 5 of us that volunteered and we all got to stay together and we all were stationed under the "pavillion/shed" so we were in the shade all day and got to listen to some good live music as well. I ended up serving some pretty random beers with a random girl (Imperial from Costa Rica, Sapporo from Japan, Dundee Honey Brown Ale, Dundee Pale Ale, and Steinlager from New Zealand). Tom and Matt got to serve a bunch of yummy Harpoon beers and, of course, PBR. Tara and Wes had good beers to serve, so good that they ran out before the end of the festival. Luckily there was a number of the Harpoon beers left at the end so Tom stocked up on the IPA and I got some UFO Hefeweizen, Harpoon Cider, and Woodchuck.