Yesterday we went to a beer festival a short train ride away, in Moosburg. It was the first one held in the town, and there were a lot of people there so I hope it's not the last. Interesting mix of hipsters/beer geeks and Moosburgers made for some good people watching.
I like the German beer festival "pay per drink over an entire weekend" method better than the American "pay a lot of money for a ticket and drink all you can manage in four hours" method. No one's puking on your shoes because they're determined to get their money's worth, you can bring a non-drinking friend for cheap (I skipped more than one Indiana festival that did not offer a reduced entrance fee for designated drivers), and they're more accessible to normal people, by which I mean people who aren't on Untappd. This last point seems like an advantage for breweries; you can't introduce casual drinkers to your product at a venue only hardcore geeks are willing to drop $50 attend.
We tasted 14 different beers, mostly by not ordering the same thing at the same booth. The pours ranged from 0,1L to 0,3L and from 1-3€ depending on the style; most were more generous than advertised. Notable were a Dampfbier (steam beer) and a cherry porter that tasted very American. Even with the train tickets and food, we spent less than the price of two Indianapolis-area beer festival tickets for about the same amount of sampling.
I was well-hydrated before we left home, and feel a little dehydrated but otherwise fine today. Perhaps I did not eat enough pickles.
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