I put up a bunch of pics from the beer fest at Flickr. Keith was toting his cam all afternoon too and merged his pics and mine into a 30-second video. It makes me giggle.

The festival was very good. Absolutely great crowd, everyone friendly and laid-back. I tried lots of different wheat beers, including a ‘chocolate wheat’ which was, well, gawdawful. It tasted like coffee beer. Maybe good in the winter or something, but all wrong on a hot summer afternoon. The one I liked best was at Lily’s - it was not too sweet, had a vague but not overpowering fruit taste (no, it was more like a fruit aroma). Some wheats are so bland and watery - this has a nice taste.

The boys smoked some cigars, we ate some food that was very tasty but very bad for us, and generally had a good time. Lots of people seemed to be standing in line for particular brewers. We just headed for the shortest line: more beer faster.