Seattle International Beer Fest
by Matthew on Jun 25, 2008 11:36 PM PDT
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PrintLOCATION: Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheater
TIMES: Fri July 4 (Noon-10pm), Sat July 5 (Noon-10pm), Sun July 6 (Noon-7pm)
COST: $20 entry fee buys you 10 tokens, add't tokens are $1. (Cash only)
If you save wristband and glass then one entry fee is good for all three days!
BEER COST: 1-4 tokens per 4oz. serving depending on rarity of beer; most cost just 1 token.
NOTABLE BEERS:
120 Minute IPA - Dogfish Head. a 21% ABV IPA. It'll knock you back. This one is sure to be expensive as it's normally priced at $10/12oz bottle in retailers.
Oskar Blues -Makers of some of the best beers in the country, but are for the most part more difficult to find than most. You might have seen some of them and passed them over because of the cans they come in as opposed to bottles. Appearing at the fest are Dales Pale, Old Chub, Ten-FIDY, Chubourbon and Gordon. They are all worth trying.
Brother Thelonius - North Coast. A good belgian style ale by one of the finest breweries in America, best known for Old Rasputin.
Port Brewing/Lost Abbey - Angel's Share, Hop-15. A barleywine and a double IPA from another great brewery.
Rogue - Double Dead Guy, Batch 10,000. It's Rogue and it's stronger than ever!
Oaked Arrogant Bastard - Stone. If you like the Stone lines of intense hop brews, be sure to dry the oaked AB. Anything aged in oak is usually given a nice character boost and AB is no exception.
Double Black Butte Porter - Deschutes.
Oak Aged Yeti - Great Divide. Another one of the country's best imperial stouts, this time with more oak.
There's also two beers that will be poured at 2pm on Saturday only and will likely be gone within a half hour. JW Lee's Harvest and Harviestoun Ola Dubh, both ales that have been aged in scotch casks.
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Oh, dip, I might have to come up to Seattle for this.
And then three weeks later is the Oregon Brewer’s Festival. Hooray beer!
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Jun 20, 2008 11:18 AM PDT reply actions
I am going to the 1PM M's game on the 4th
And then taking a bus up to the Festival. That should make for a fun Friday if anyone else is interested.
I'm definitely going on Sunday
I have to work Fri/Sat nights, so a beer festival before hand probably is a bad idea
I'd rather know a little about a lot than a lot about a little
Wasn't there another festival last weekend too?
I like midgets more than I should.
That was it.
Missed it for the second year in a row. If I survive the party on the 4th, maybe I can talk some guys into hitting the beer fest on Saturday, although Sunday is much more likely.
I like midgets more than I should.
I miss good beer.
Luckily a free festival every weekend almost makes up for it.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 11:29 AM PDT reply actions
Same question here.
Please, we want details!
I like midgets more than I should.
Last week was the creole tomato festival, the zydeco festival and the seafood festival.
Free admission and free music every week.
Food costs, but usually there are samples.
Alcohol costs…but it’s New Orleans. So by “cost” I mean it’s $2.50 for good beer, $5 at most for a call drink.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
NO rocks.
I’m sure there are plenty of festivals up here in Seattle, but you kind of have to search for them, or drive all over town. That’s why I usually stick to my favorite dive bar, or just get together at a friends house for BBQ and drinks.
I like midgets more than I should.
Best city in the country.
Clearly some trade offs, but there’s always something happening, and it’s usually free or cheap. If there’s nothing official, you can just wander down to the Marigny and hear a brass band on a corner or dance in the street to a random sidewalk band.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I usually just dance to the band in my head.
How is NO doing anyway? All I hear is news reports about how the French Quarter is 100%, but everything else is still destroyed.
I like midgets more than I should.
I thought they didn't even report on us anymore.
The FQ only ever had wind damage. People partied there right after the storm.
Post-K, we’re not 100%. The lower 9th, which was the most devastated, is still a mess, but people are rebuilding. People are rebuilding in every neighborhood. They want to come back, but most of the time the insurance money is not enough. The houses still have their marks (shows that federal agencies came by to make sure that no one was in the home) but they’re more or less a mark of pride. There are still neighborhoods with only one or two residents per block, but everywhere there is activity.
The best thing that can happen (besides having big corporations move here) is more tourism, so visit, visit, visit!
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
It's on my list.
Right after going to spring training. Glad to hear it’s getting better all the time though. My Dad went down there about a year ago with his church to volunteer, and he said it looked like whole counties (parrishes?) had been wiped off the map still.
I like midgets more than I should.
Parishes.
And yeah, it still looks like that in places. Outside the city it’s actually worse. And we’ve still got plenty of volunteer teams coming through.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
At least I got the word right, even if I JI'd the spelling.
I like midgets more than I should.
Clearly some trade offs
Yeah, the malaria’s a bit of a downer.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
Nah, it's West Nile.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a feeling this might be a perfect "I'm bored at work on Friday" thread.
Might also take my mind off the fact my softball team hasn’t won a game in months and we play again tonight.
I like midgets more than I should.
Or a Thursday
You can call me Case Study #1.
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
Um... I'm assuming you only named a few beers that will be there
I’ve never heard of those beers, so I’ll just stick with the familiar. Do they have quality beers like Bud Light, Miller High Life, and PBR?
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I really hope you're kidding.
I like midgets more than I should.
Yes, internet sarcasm.
I don’t really drink anyways, but i’ve had all three of those beers and think they taste like pee.
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Try a real beer.
Trust me, if you’ve only had those three, you haven’t actually tried beer. That’s like trying Mad Dog 20/20, Thunderbird and Boones and saying you don’t like wine. Or trying Folgers and saying you don’t like coffee.
I like midgets more than I should.
Yeah, not sure what kind of wine i've tried
but I hate that as well. Tastes like crappy juice mixed with crappy beer or something. I dont’ know… In college most of my friends/teammates had the mentality of the cheaper the better, and the worse it tastes, the more manly you are. Most of us didn’t really drink much in season (cross country and track) anyways, so it was just 2 months worth. If you’ve ever seen a beer mile (usually beer, quarter mile, beer, quarter mile, beer, quarter mile, beer, quarter mile beer, but we do 4 total miles instead of one), it’s… an experience…. Lots of puking since everyone is running their guts out. Not sure how I went off on this tangent…
Counting the minutes til I get off work early to by my awesome bat.
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Oh yes, beer mile was popular at my school.
But manliness does not come from drinking shit beer. It can come from knowing good beers, though.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Screw that. I haven't even ran a mile since HS, I'm not trying a "beer mile".
Buying a new bat you say? You a softball player as well?
I like midgets more than I should.
Awaiting Brett's angry post about not being able to go...
I fucking hate you Mariners
In the meantime, here's my angry post about not being able to go...
Grrrrrrr, I wanna go. Stupid work making me be here on stupid weekends when there are much better things to do. Maybe I’ll sneak away early on saturday or something, and catch the last hour or so
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jun 20, 2008 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
So, what day are LL types planning to go?
I’m gonna’ hit it up on Sunday.
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OT:
Anybody know a good SPAM blocker that will work with AVG and SpyBot? I get swampd with spam here at work, even though I have all my filters set to high.
I like midgets more than I should.
For me it's all a matter of how hard I hit it on the 4th.
I may still be recovering by Saturday and Sunday.
I like midgets more than I should.
Precautions would mean "have some self control and don't drink too much".
The 4th party I go to is always crazy, and I don’t have to drive afterwards, so that might be a bit tough.
I like midgets more than I should.
I hate massive crowds of people in small spaces?
I hate waiting in line more than 0 minutes for a beer?
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
That's productive drinker talk
All the time spent at the beer fest waiting in line, getting one beer at a time, then doing it again, could be better spent in my backyard, on the deck, with a cooler full of beer and a bbq. Or at a bar.
People in mass quantities with no assigned seats to be in tend to suck.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
While I do agree with all of this
I plan on already being downtown and already having a buzz on. So going to a Beer Festival seems like a grand way to keep a good thing going.
Yeah, if you're in the neighborhood it'd be worth it.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
But then you miss out the camaraderie that goes along with LL trip to the beer festival
and dare I say, drunk Robert?
This is why I love coming along to these things
because I tend to be the guy that drinks a lot less in groups, and feeds everyone else beer just to see what happens three hours later. I’m mean like that.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
I think even I would feed beer to Robert just to see what happens.
These stories are really making me curious.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
At my wedding my best man gave a whole speech about my instigation skills
he was trying to come up with good “pdb got drunk and did this” stories but all he could come up with was “pdb and I got drunk, he kept giving me beer, then he dared me to do this” stories. I’m almost absurdly proud of this.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Me too.
But I think he’d be funnier.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I fail to see how feeding people beer is mean.
Regardless of the intent, unless we’re talking about taking advantage of someone.
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by Aaron Campeau on Jun 20, 2008 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
It's not mean, it's a sport
and no, I have never fed beer to a female in order to take advantage. That’s pretty much the wrongest and classlessest thing someone could do.
Yes, I’m making up words.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Jun 20, 2008 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Bet you can't guess where that rec is from.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
my wonderiferous vocabulary?
or my classishness? Hoo boy, I’m on a roll now, wordifically speaking.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Tacos rule.
I like midgets more than I should.
by Thingray on Jun 20, 2008 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Fish tacos, not so much
I just tried a fish taco today for the first time. I was hoping it’d be better than it was.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Oh they're delicious though. And the lobster ones are even better.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe I just didn't get 'em at the right place
but in reality it was probably more the sauce they put on. Sort of an odd mix of tartar and vinegar, which…not so bueno. I’d be up for trying them again at a different place.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
WAY OT: Did you get Sonics' tickets yet?
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by Aaron Campeau on Jun 20, 2008 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
At first I thought you meant the team
but no, I don’t have ‘em yet. Didn’t think they went on sale till tomorrow…I’ll be buying some shortly.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
There's apparently going to be a super awesome opening band as well.
I’m intrigues.
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by Aaron Campeau on Jun 20, 2008 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I enjoy wordifically as well.
Yes, I'm a girl. Yes, I know baseball. Yes, I even drink beer.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jun 20, 2008 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn't figure it was something you were likely to do.
Just wanted to cover my own ass.
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by Aaron Campeau on Jun 20, 2008 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
They put cameras up there now.
On the plus side, it’s open 24/7.
They "closed" it
Because of twats throwing shit over the side.
Us
That hobo sharpening his knife on the sidewalk was cooler than Robert.
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 22, 2008 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll give you guys that.
I like midgets more than I should.
Now that the crowds and lack of AC have been mentioned,
I may skip it and have my own little brew fest at home. I’ve got a few special ones in the fridge I’ve been saving.
I like midgets more than I should.
In general, that's a good plan
I remember being at the Oregon Brewer’s festival, in the sun (no room under the tent), with the temps over 100 degrees and thinking the whole experience was pretty…. intense. I’m not a very intense person, but still – there’s something to be said for the occasional visit to festivals like this.
The main thing is getting draft beer. I’m sure I can find bottles of oaked/casked beers, or maybe a Double Dead Guy or what have you. But it’s pretty special to have it on draft, and yes, you can taste the difference. Is that enough to outweigh the outside-in-a-crowd factor? I don’t know, your mileage may vary. But it’s an important factor.
I went last year.
Don’t bother. Way too expensive for like Dixie cup sized servings of beer, some of which are downright terrible. I was very disappointed. I ended up giving most of my beer tickets to a random pretty girl and just hit a bar for some local micro brews.
If Robert is drunk enough removing him from the couch should be fairly straitforward
by Graham MacAree on Jun 23, 2008 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't touch him
he’s such a cute fetal sleeper
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 23, 2008 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn.
Girl just broke up with me. My immediate reaction: go to QFC, buy 12 Pilsner Urquells and a 26 oz Chimay and 26 oz Duvall.
I haven’t even started drinking and I’m more excited about the beer than upset about the girl. Hahaha
My rec:
Go to Cost Plus instead. Duvel is only 6.49 there. And Chimay is 8.99-10.99 depending on color.
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