My beer inventory for the night:

Rogue imperial stout
Stone brewery's Arrogant Bastard Ale
Chimay Bleu ale
Wild Goose Brown Ale


It's been an awesome twenty-first birthday.

The ONLY beer that I will drink before I am drunk enough so i cant taste the beer is an OE. OR i'll chug beer if i just want to get smashed.

i just heard that sierra nevada's celebration ale is being shipped to stores this week. wooo!!!!

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/1904

SOMEBODY is starting things off right.

Bring some Arrogant Bastard to Fest for me. please please please.

i feel like we should've set up a time when a couple dozen of us could get together at the Fest, all bringing a couple 12 packs of our favorite beer, and then had a beer sharing. You know like, "hey, this is my favorite beer of all time, oh, you've never heard of it, here ya go"

tony i'm bringing some folks some cape anne brewery stff, you want some?

fuck yeah. that'd be awesome. home team...represent

we actually sort of tried to set this up, but punks don't have money or attention spans, so...

yeah, I wish i'd taken a more pro-active role in this, but I can't even get into town until about 5pm on Friday, so that kind of cuts into the only time I can really see a beer swap fitting.

Still, I wanna meet people who like good beer, and I need to start sending some PMs to people asking for some different beers.

If I were driving, I would've jumped on this...but its going to be hard enough to get the few 6s of stuff I'm wrapping in towels in luggage on the flight already...

I'm really not much of a beer fan and my friends just keep telling me I haven't found the right one yet. Anybody want to introduce me to the "good stuff"?

Yeah, there are MANY beer/cider threads previous to this one that tried to organize meet-ups and swaps, some of them:

any Beer Nerds going to The Fest?:
http://www.noidearecords.com/Fest/board ... php?t=4122

Fest bier:
http://www.noidearecords.com/Fest/board ... php?t=6360

Since there is a good beer thread..:
http://www.noidearecords.com/Fest/board ... php?t=4241

Beers:
http://www.noidearecords.com/Fest/board ... php?t=7342

sweetwater 420... does anyone know if it's on tap somewhere in gainesville?

They've got it on six packs a few stores, and I've seen signs for it in windows of some bars, but none of the Fest venues.

I've been to the Sweetwater brewery a couple of times, it's pretty cool. Their IPA is great when it's really fresh.

Last night at Gator Beverage I got some Bell's Special Double Cream Stout, Avery Ale To The Chief Presidential Pale Ale, and Oskar Blues Gordon.

Last night I got to see Philip in "talking about beer" mode, it was awesome. He and my friend Tara went to another plane of existence for a good while there. Intense. Beer brewery talk.