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Weekend Festivities….<\/p>\n
Wow.. What a crazy busy weekend… Here’s what we did…<\/p>\n
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On Friday night Ian had a blast at the Ribs and Brew festival. He ended up working in the Long Trail booth. (Ian – add your comments here)<\/span><\/p>\n On Saturday, I tried to arrive at 3:00, but didn’t get there until 4:00 (because of the Homebrew competition) and found that no one was around the beer tent. I was a little confused and it was sooooo hot out. After speaking with a rep from JR Reardon (Bud), we found the key to the ice truck. For about an hour, I carried ~30 bags of ice and started icing down the bottles\/kegs. I wasn’t sure what I was suppose to do, but I knew the beer needed ice.<\/p>\n Around 6:00, when the event was to start, the sky opened up. It was a pretty crazy storm, we were lucky that the rain didn’t come into the tent too much. Very quickly, there was a long line of people inside the tent that needed to be checked in, so Ryan and I jumped in and helped put on wristbands. Eventually, I was checking IDs and putting on wrist-banding while Ryan worked in the Long Trail booth. After checking ID’s, I floated around helping get things done (delivering ice, getting band aids and drinking tasty beers). It was a great time. I can see the 2Beerguys getting more involved with this event and possibly running our own beer evenings in the next few years.<\/p>\n Here were the participants Mercury<\/span> – Ipswich IPA and Stout?
\n(Note: I didn’t visit all of the booths, so I not sure what every brewery brought… and I can only account for Saturday night. Each brewery was allowed to bring up to 4 beers.)<\/span><\/p>\n
\nBerkshire Brewing Company<\/span> (With representatives)
\nHarpoon<\/span> – UFO, UFO Rasp., IPA,
\nShipyard<\/span> –
\nNewport Storm<\/span>
\nCape Ann Brewing Company<\/span> – Fisherman’s Ale, I also heard that they had a pumpkin Stout (With representatives)
\nDiagio Imports (Guiness)<\/span> – Redsripe and some fru-fru drinks
\nWachusett<\/span> – Blueberry, Oktoberfest (With representatives)
\nA\/B<\/span> – Demon IPA, Pumpkin Spice (With representatives)
\nMagic Hat<\/span> – Jinx, Number 9, Circus Boy (With representatives)
\nSierra Nevada<\/span> – Stout, Anniversary IPA
\nGritty’s<\/span>
\nSmuttynose<\/span> – Smutty Pumpkin – IPA
\nConcord Brewing<\/span> – Honey Brown Ale (With representatives)
\nLong Trial<\/span> – Blackberry Wheat, Hit the trail ale
\nOld Burnside Brewing Co.<\/span> – Ten Penny, Dirty Penny (With representatives)<\/p>\n