So Brother Raise Another Pint...

Last Saturday, after taking a take-home final, I took off in a yellow schoolbus to the Killington Brewfest. For the next hour, I and 13 fellow beer fans had a wonderful tour of Vermont as we climbed the mountain up to the Killington lodge where the brewfest took place. Along the way, we saw a chili cookoff which looked delicious and a series of giant animals made using bales of hay. Quite a scene.

Once we got into the beer festival, we were taken aback with how many people were in the room. Downstairs was Harpoon, Shipyard, Budweiser, Otter Creek, and a bunch of other breweries. We skipped these for the time being and headed upstairs where we hoped the lines were shorter. Of course they weren't, but we waited in line for Dogfish, which was worth the wait. I found out that I actually like the Punkin Ale! First pumpkin related consumable I've ever liked. From there we headed off to another room in search of shorter lines one again.

After walking past some sort of an ompah band, we came to a room with Brasserie Unibroue, Allagash, Saranac, and a few others. Lines here were shorter and I had a couple octoberfests, a belgian triple, and a doppel of varying tastiness. To top it off, the UVA/UNC football game was on and as we were in line UVA scored a TD to go up by two scores! Huzzah!

After this, we headed back down to the Dogfish area and tried a whole bunch of different beers and ran into a bunch of other Tuck people so that was good to see. Eventually we made it back down to the first area and had a couple tasty stouts and watched while this dude on guitar played with his teeth. Very interesting.

Altogether, the day was pretty great. I got to hang out with a bunch of new people, I got a fancy new tasting glass, and had a bunch of new beers from all over the general New England area. Not a bad day