Did You Drop My Beer?!?!?!

This weekend we went to the Palm Beach Summer Beer Bash. After the Beer and Burger Bash last month, I was not up for another beer fest. It is WAY to hot for outdoor beer festivals. When Huck told me this event was inside, in the A/C, I was all for it.

The festival was at the South Florida Fairgrounds. Did I mention it was inside. SO NICE!

The event also had a Homebrewing competition. Huck and I both entered beers for the event. He entered a Pale Ale. I had a Pomegranate Wheat. Our friend Karl entered a beer, too. I think his was a stout.

Huck was worried the bottom would break in our 6 packs, so he had a death grip on them. 

We made it inside and walked straight to the Homebrew check in. I checked my beer in first and started walking to a booth to get a beer. Huck and Karl were checking in their beers when I heard a crash. I turned and looked at Huck, he was looking right at me.

I asked if that was our beer. I could tell from his face, it was, and it was mine. I walked up to the counter, seen all my beers busted on the floor and screamed at the guy “Did you drop my beer? How did you drop my beer?”

You could tell he felt horrible. I, of course, apologized for screaming at him. I was just really mad. That beer was really good and first prize was $750, and I wanted to win.

My poor beer:(

I had a few people tell me it smelled really good.  I guess I won best in smell category.

Alex was nice enough to take a pick of the broken bottles. Deena told him not to, but Alex said I would want to blog about it. I looked at both of them and shuck my head. He was right.

RIP Forbidden Wheat…

 

The guy was nice enough to get us VIP passes to make up for the beer. I apologized to him a few times throughout the event. I really felt bad.

As part of the VIP, we received bigger mugs. People keep asking me what I did to get a bigger mug. “I’m just really lucky!” Ha. 

 

Deena and I got our picture in front of the Shiner booth.

The big mug was a bad idea. People didn’t know how much to pour, so we got a few beer pours like this…

Really, this was Huck’s beer. After the first guy poured me half a glass, I started asking for just a taste.

{I was sporting my Hopvine Shirt from Brewer Shirts, too.}

I also got a tattoo from Matt, one of the owners at TBC.  Super great brewery by the way,

It was a fun day. Beer Festivals in the A/C are the way to go.

There is one day left to enter for a chance to win a T-Shirt from Brewer Shirts.