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Hello Friends, Family, and Beer lovers,<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, George\/Kat\/Ian and I ventured over to the Microbrew<\/span> festival in Newburyport<\/span>. It was organized by the C-10 Research and Education foundation and held downtown by oldies flea market.. (And no Ryan, they don’t sell fleas).<\/p>\n It was an outdoor festival and in a perfect location by the waterfront. Participating in this event were the following breweries:<\/p>\n * Allagash<\/span> * Berkshire * Cape Ann It cost $25 dollars to get in and we received a passport with 8 different spots on it. This allowed us to receive 8 samples. The sample size was approximately 4 ounces (1\/4 of a pint).<\/p>\n We scoped out the joint. Most of the offerings were lighter summer beers. Awe shucks… where are the IPA’s<\/span>… Initially, I was disappointed, but after we dove in it didn’t bother me anymore. (There were 4 IPA present and accounted for: Ipswich, Stone Cat, Smuttynose<\/span>, and Wachusett<\/span>)<\/p>\n I started my adventure with a Magic hat #9 and chatted it up with the sales folks. I was excited to tell them about my Vermont adventure. Then I ventured on. (Not in this order) I tried a Pear offering from Unibroue<\/span>, an Smuttynose<\/span> IPA, a Stone Cat IPA, Wachusett<\/span> Blueberry, Gritty’s<\/span> Vacationland<\/span>, another #9, and a Allagash<\/span> White.<\/p>\n We were quite pleased to chat it up with some of the sales folks. I was very impressed that each brewery had someone from the brewery. I have been to similar events where the beer was there and a clueless volunteer was serving the beer.<\/p>\n The highlight of the night for me was meeting the folks at Allagash<\/span> and Gritty’s<\/span>. After mentioning that one of my favorite Gritty’s<\/span> beers was their Scottish Ale, I quickly learned that the gentleman that I was speaking with was the Scottish man on the bottle. I don’t think he’s really Scottish, but he just plays one on tv<\/span>. I then remembered that I have that Scottish Ale shirt and that he was on my shirt (I wasn’t wearing it at the time). AND Yeah, George has a friend that’s<\/span> in sales for Gritty’s<\/span>. THANKS FOR KEEPING THIS A SECRET!!!… HA, George didn’t know, but knowing is half the battle.<\/p>\n I am not sure what everyone else tasted, but I know that they enjoyed the Fisherman’s brew by Cape Ann.<\/p>\n I had a good time. I am on the fence in saying if it was pricey. There could have been more value to the event, but we weren’t sad to bring home a pint glass. Overall, it was definitely fun to get back into the swing of things and get our name back out there.<\/p>\n Maybe next year we can get involved. This is something that I would like to get into organizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello Friends, Family, and Beer lovers, On Wednesday, George\/Kat\/Ian and I ventured over to the Microbrew festival in Newburyport. It was organized by the C-10 Research and Education foundation and held downtown by oldies flea market.. (And no Ryan, they don’t sell fleas). It was an outdoor festival and in a perfect location by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,9,80,32,107,88,76,25,121],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/seanpost80.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* D.L. Geary<\/span> * Gritty McDuff<\/span> * Ipswich
\n* Magic Hat * Redhook<\/span> * Smuttynose<\/span>
\n* Stone Mill * Tuckerman<\/span> * Unibroue<\/span> * Wachusett<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n