The Georgetown festival was a great success. They had a full capacity sell out of 5000 people, despite the slow steady rain all day. It was a great party atmosphere, more like a town social event that happened to have beer, food and music. Had a great time talking to customers from work that i knew, and complete strangers. The rain seemed to have an effect to creating camaraderie amongst the attendees, and a great time was had by all.
As for the beer, we got 4 tokens with our admission, good for 4 oz pours, or 2 tokens for 8 oz. Extra tokens were $1 each, so $4 for 16 oz of beer. Started at Rainhard as i've never tried them, they had Kapow! IPA and a couple others (sorry didnt notice which ones).
Nickel Brook had 6 taps including Maple Porter, Raspberry Uber, Equilibrium ESB, Immodest, Luxe (aka Beauty and the Bistro) and Uncommon Element, a Belgian Brett Ale.
Collective Arts and Great Lakes were slight disappointments as they only brought Ransack and Saint, and Canuck and Pompous Ass respectively. Asked if they had Karma Citra, the girl said keep your eyes and ears open. On a good note, my wife and i had 8 oz pours of fresh Ransack from the keg and they didnt ask for tokens. Great Lakes gave 8 oz pours for 1 token.
The surprising highlight of the day was Redline Double Clutch 8.1% imperial IPA. My wife and I had 3 8oz pours each as we felt it was the best beer at the festival.
The lowlights were Henderson Food Truck and Four Fathers Honey Badger (a saison with honey and peppermint), both were "grass pours" lol.
Due to poor planning we went on an empty stomach and drank 2 litres each of 5-8% abv beer, so we had a pretty good buzz going.
In the photo, my wife is under the green and white tie-dyed umbrella at the left edge, i'm in front of her with my son's mario and luigi umbrella wearing my troeg's shirt.
