Poor Kid Drinks a Good Beer
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2010 Brew at the Zoo
The Louisville Zoo host a local brew fest every year. Sounds like a ton of fun, right? Zoo animals, all you can drink beer, wine, good food, and live music, are typically all the ingredients for a good time.
Indeed it was. Minus the zoo animals that is. The actually location of the festivities were in a back lot fried, away from the zoo exhibits. Although my inner child was thoughtfully disappointed with the lack of lions, tigers, and bears, (oh my!), it did make reasonable sense to have an event as large as this away from the inner workings of the zoo. People at the event payed anywhere from $30 to $75 for a ticket, depending on being the designated driver, or VIP.
Paul, his brother, and I arrived on the scene around 3pm to set up shop for My Old Kentucky Homebrew and prepare for the brewing demonstration that would later ensue. We posted up next to the rockabilly van from Fall City, and I swiftly made my way to the Sunergos booth to re-up my caffeine levels. My adventures for coffee sent me past Compass from Jobless Burring. It was good to see a new craft brewer out there, and this was just the place for him to gain more exposure.
People started flooding in and whispers of how the event was sold out filled the air. Beer and wine were flowing like river and music was playing. Shortly thereafter we started brewing a stout, and as the aroma filled the air people started stopping by our booth to ask all kinds of questions. Sadly because of laws, we could not bring any home brew to hand out to people. Instead we brought some home brewed root beer. Seems harmless enough, right. Great for those who were designated drivers, or just needed a break from the beer. However, some people really felt offended when we offered them some ice cold root beer, but that’s people for you, and these people wanted beer.
The event was well planned out, but it was sad to see it end when it did. 4:00pm to 9:00pm seems like plenty of time to try out a little bit of everything but as it died down, you could tell people were not ready to go home. The music did not stop well until after 9:00pm, and people were still dancing around and having an all around good time.
For once, I actually worked an event and truly worked. Talking to home brewers, big time brewers, and people just interested in what was boiling in the brew pot. I did not get to wander around as much as I would have like to, other than the few time I left the booth to go get us all a couple of beers and some food. I can tell you that it would definitely worth the money, and to buy in advanced. All you can eat food, and all you can drink beer and wine, not to mention free stuff from many of the booths, it was indeed a good time.
