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Augusta Bottoms Beer Festival

Oct 10, 2007 beer

Saturday we headed out to the Augusta Bottoms Beer Festival. It was not exactly the the best day for a beer festival as we were edging into the freaky-hot realm of October temperatures. Still, with good beer and good friends it was definitely worth it.
One thing I had that he seemingly did not was the Boulevard Tripel. It was really excellent, and I hope that they take their “test brews” of the double IPA and tripel, and make them at least seasonally. I’d definitely be happy to drink both.

As for the brats, I could get all snobby food guy and complain about the serving of tortilla chips with them, but I didn’t want chips anyway, and really the lagered sauerkraut more than made up for them. Great use of beer in food. I’m happy to see it’s on the Square One menu, and I’ll definitely head down for another.

As to my votes for best booth and beer, I went O’Fallon Brewery for the sweep. Killer booth with the actual pumpkin pumpkin beer tap. Absolutely amazing beer for the cask conditioned 5 Day IPA. You wouldn’t think the difference between the bottle and cask would be so dramatic, but it really is.

Other than that, I don’t really have much to add Mike hasn’t already with his enormous Beer Geek inspired post?

I leave you with photos:

Beer Geeks…lots and lots of Beer Geeks

90+ degrees + 160lb runner guy = loopy fast. Fortunately brats and delicious lagered kraut make it all OK. That and Irene was the double “d”. That makes it all OK too. Go Irene!

pumpkin pumpkin beer tap

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