“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend” – Chuck Palahniuk GABF is the ultimate weekend for thousands of people. We as a species are natural archivists of memories and relish being able re-hash our greatest moments […]
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GABF 2014: Observations from Day Two
Friday is the gateway to the weekend. It inspires us to face the week and its challenges. However, if you read last week’s post, you’ll know this was no average Friday. Only the most established alcoholics would rise to the challenge presented by this Friday. We are those men, and […]
GABF – The Hangover: A Summary
The Monday after the 2014 Great American Beer Festival, I woke up feeling surprisingly well. I had just spent five out of the past seven days at various events, bars and festival sessions drinking like a man just released from a 15 year prison stint. I thought for sure the […]
Beer n’ Loathing at the Great American Beer Festival
I stood in the middle of what could only be described as a fire hazard. Hundreds of people shuffled around me, while thousands more milled and writhed within the several thousand acre space we had been confined to. All 13,000 of us had to have thanked our lucky stars that […]
Rocking Beer Festivals – The Epic Beer Festival
I thought I knew how to rock a beer festival up until a few weeks ago. My confidence was shattered when I poured at a beer festival and wound up falling off my bike 10 times and shredding my elbows. I recently went for redemption at the Epic Beer Festival’s […]
Swimming with Left Handed Fishes at Lake Dillon
I woke up with a pug’s butthole in my face Sunday morning. Luckily, I knew exactly where I was even though I wasn’t positive how I got there. Animal ass in your face tends to make you take a moral and physical inventory, or at least it should, and I […]