Today after work I met a few friends at the Oregon Brewers Festival, the big shindig held at waterfront park filled with, oh, how shall I say this… many of the kinds of people I wouldn’t ordinarily associate with. You know the kind; loudmouthed, backwards baseball cap, muscle shirt wearing, girl oggling neanderthals. The lines were long, people cutting in front of people, and once you got to the end and got your spendy little beer, nobody made way so you could get out of the line.
All my complaining aside, I did have a couple good beers, namely Terminal Gravity Brewing‘s TG Tripel, a nice, roughly Belgian style that was balanced and tasty. I also had a really tasty golden and a dark ale that I liked quite a bit, though I was so busy fighting the crowds that I wasn’t paying close enough attention.
Hopefully when I go back tomorrow (yeah, I’m going back, meeting GD again) it will be more like last year and not today.
Afterwards, Miranda and Brian and I went to Moon & Sixpence… Brian wanted (needed) food badly, and fish & chips sounded good to him, so we took the MAX out there and hung out for a couple hours before I hopped the bus home. Fun night overall, and relaxing at the Moon was what I needed both after the work week and the waterfront brewfest experience. 🙂