Beer Fest!

Yesterday, Jess and I attended the 4th Annual Hagerstown Suns Beer Tasting Festival at the baseball stadium. With your admission price, you get 10 5 oz. samples, so together we got to try 20 different beers. Awesome!

We tried all kinds of stuff that I have not had an opportunity to taste before without committing to a whole pint of it. Barley Wines, Dopple Bocks, etc. All fun to try, even if they are not our style.

Jess found several beers that she really loved, including Ommegang Witte, Ommegang Hennepin Farmhouse Saison, and her absolute favorite (and mine, perhaps influenced by the 90 degree heat): Penn Brewing's Weizen. She loved it so much, that she constructed an ad-hoc Best of Show Award and presented it to the guys from Penn Brewery. They loved it, promised it would end up on thier soon-to-be-released redesigned website, and gave her a free bottle of Weizen. Nice! That is Dale from Penn and Jess in the picture. Jess is holding the "award." So funny. ALL the beers we tried from Penn were great - if you see some in your beer story, buy it.

We also tried beers from local Clipper City. They only brought their BIG beers, so I wasn't really in to them, but the guy from the brewery was cool and we chatted about beer a bit. We hope to get up there for a tour at some point.

We enjoyed the beers from Erie Brewing including their Sunshine Wit and the somewhat famous Railbender Ale.

The cellphone pictures make it look overcast, but it was a very hot evening. The beer went down nice!