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I also have tickets for the early session on Saturday. I went last year and had a blast! I also went to the Beer Summit in April at the Castle at Park Plaza. That was a good time, but not nearly as many brewers as the ACBF. Looking forward to it!!
 
I like the first session because I know that none of the beers will kick before I try them and I like to get it done early so I can do other things after.
 
True enough. Anyone got a beerbar/brewery crawl planned for after? I'm going to hit up Boston Beer Works for sure, anything else downtownish?
 
Most of the places in the Seaport area where the event is are "upscale" and not really condusive to a post beer fest crowd :drunk:

Beer Works is always good. Also the Sunset Grille & Tap in Allston and Publick House in Brookline have outrageous beer selections.
 
I plan to attend this year , waiting to hear from the G.F. I'll let her decide on which session ,but would prefer the early one on Sat.
I believe to Sox are playing at home that weekend ,so probably head towards Fenway after .
 
I would go this year but since they moved the date up I am all booked and not happy about it. :(

However I know for sure last year there was no way in hell that I would have been able to do a pub crawl afterwards. :drunk: :mug:
 
I'm starting to think the early session is the way to be, allows for more time in the city afterwards. We've got accomodation in Cambridge, so I figure we can take the T right into the venue, do our thing, swing by Beer Works on Canal St, smoke a hookah in an underground cigar-bar in little Italy on Hanover, then head back up the Red line to Cambridge Brewing Co before we hit the sack (or stumble into a bush somewhere, whichever comes first).
 
:mug: Got my tickets today for the Sat early session.
My G.F. and I went to the Harpoon brewery last Sunday to do the tour and get our tickets.
No one working the tour had any knowledge of the event.
Emailed Harpoon on Tuesday and explained that I made the trip from Kingston just to purchase tickets.
Got a very nice email from
Michael C. Paone
Promotion Specialist @ Harpoon.
He took the blame for not having the tickets available on Sunday and was nice enough to set two aside until the G.F. could swing by and pick them up.

Looking forward to the event and hopefully meeting some members from H.B.T.
 
The people at Harpoon are great!
Glad the tickets worked out for you. I ordered mine online.
How'd you like the Harpoon tour? I am a "Friend of Harpoon" member and had a tour, well, it was more like a tasting, but I wasn't complaining.
 
The people at Harpoon are great!
Glad the tickets worked out for you. I ordered mine online.
How'd you like the Harpoon tour? I am a "Friend of Harpoon" member and had a tour, well, it was more like a tasting, but I wasn't complaining.
The tour was short ,but the tasting was nice. It was a Sunday so tours on the hour instead of the 1/2. We tried some green I.P.A. straight from the fermenter, then some from the tap in the sample room. Then they gave us 20 -25 minutes to sample what ever we wanted.
I also joined friends of Harpoon . Seems like they have some decent events.
 
I am not sure yet. I will be the dude with a staff shirt on with a Phish hat and a big red beard. Shouldn't be hard to spot.
 
I'll keep an eye open. Just trimmed about 15 inches off my beard . Would have been real easy to spot my if I hadn't . Was just short of my waist.

Look for the old guy wearing a fermentally challenged t-shirt. :mug:
 
For anyone going to the second session on saturday, I will be one of the dudes taking your tickets before you get the cups.
 
Just got home from a great day of tasting beer. I'm toast...Hundred's of beers...So little time. A shout out to Al (sumo)...I'm not sure how many people were there, but it was packed and I was at the early session..I was looking for ya Todd, But there would be no way i would've found you..Too many people..I hope you had fun though.

Cheers
 
Wow, just wow. This was my first beerfest, and I gotta say, I'm never missing another one again.

The Standouts: New Holland's 2007 Oak Aged Dragons Milk was like drinking joy. Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project was so damn popular that they were out of two beers by the time we got to them, but their Jack D'or and St. Butolph Town were amazing. Haverhills Belgian IPA was actually quite good, as was everything from Speakeasy Brewing. Brooklyn's Curvee was really very good, despite having 10 different spices in it (kind of like KFC?). Terrapin Brewing's Rye Squared was fantastic, as well as Stone's double dry hopped Arrogant Bastard.

What did you guys think? I went out and bought bombers of everything Pretty Things makes as well as Haverhill and Great Divide's 15th anniversary Oak Aged IIPA.

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The crazy Ivan from bear republic was great and the beer for Surly was good too. Working line maintenance at the second session was intense. I think the total number of people ending up being around 4 thousand.
 
So many choices . I tried to stick mainly with barley wines , porters and imperial stouts. There were so many I had to switch up and drink something easy after every 4-5 big beers.Also Had some great IIPA's and they were delicious.
Took all kinds of notes the first 20 minutes ,but gave up after a bit.
Great crowd ,lines weren't bad ,and all in all a great time.
 
Just got home from a great day of tasting beer. I'm toast...Hundred's of beers...So little time. A shout out to Al (sumo)...I'm not sure how many people were there, but it was packed and I was at the early session..I was looking for ya Todd, But there would be no way i would've found you..Too many people..I hope you had fun though.

Cheers

I couldn't believe how many people were there during the afternoon session. Last year, there were very few lines, only at a handful of the most popular breweries, not at virtually every brewery like this year. I still had fun, and the long lines meant that I drank a bit less and had to be a bit more selective about the beers that I would wait for. (I'm not sure if this was a good or a bad thing.)
 
This was a great event! Better than last year. I was surprised at how the early session was so crowded - more than last year. I was most impressed with Pretty Things - outstanding! First time I have tried their beers as they are so new to the scene.

My friends had what seemed to be a great plan - start with the lighter beers like wheats and summers so as not to mess up the palate when we hit the more robust offerings. We foolishly thought that we could make it around 1 time on the lights then do a second lap with the heavy's - yeah right! We made it about 2/3 through and found we were running low on time so we had to pick up the pace and switch over to the heavy's ASAP! :drunk:

No question I'll be buying my tickets for the 2010 show as soon as they are available!
 
I couldn't believe how many people were there during the afternoon session. Last year, there were very few lines, only at a handful of the most popular breweries, not at virtually every brewery like this year. I still had fun, and the long lines meant that I drank a bit less and had to be a bit more selective about the beers that I would wait for. (I'm not sure if this was a good or a bad thing.)

It was a bit too crowded for me.. We got there about 1230 and the line was unbelievably long to get in..I do have to say it went fast though. When we got in the room, the lines weren't that bad. 4-5 people or less..Towards the end, every beer line was 15-20+ and slooow..I don't have any patience for that. I'm Sorry I missed you..
 
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