Preview : American craft beer fest this weekend!!

I am ridiculously excited to anounce that I am spending the weekend in Boston with my wife and will attend one of the American Craft beer fest sessions. Over 100 brewers and 400+ beers, yeah I am going crazy with anticipation! So, because of my eagerness, I decided to write a little preview post about whats to come this weekend. I got hooked on beer fests ever since attending the vermont beer fest and the oktoberfest in vermont at harpoon brewery. This is the big one though! This is one serious beer fest. The woodstock of beerfests, haha. This is the one I have heard so much about, and am waiting in anticipation for all this time. The thing I am looking forward to most is the opportunity to try beer from brewers that don't ship to where I live. All of these brewers I have heard so much about and haven't had the chance to try. A lot of local brew pubs that you need to drive there just to try the beer, but all under one roof! Some long time favorites, some I have never heard of, and lots I have been dying to try!

Here are some long time favorites that will be there:

Berkshire Brewing Company
Boston Beer Co.
Long Trail
Otter Creek
Dogfish head
Brooklyn Brewery
Brewery Ommegang
Thomas Hooker
Rogue

I will probably see what these guys have to offer, see what new ones they have that I haven't tried before. I already know what to expect from them so, what I am really looking forward to is the brewers that I haven't tried yet but have heard a lot of good things about, and those that I have never even heard of!

Here are some that I am talking about:

Amherst brewing co
Cambridge Brewing co
Coastal Extreme
cape ann
cape cod
goose island
gardner ale house
haverhill
jackie o's
lawsons finest liquids
left hand brewing co
paper city
pretty things
sebago brewing co
throwback
troegs brewing co
tuckerman brewing co
wormtown brewing co
watch city
white birch
prodigal

yeah the list is growing and quite overwhelming. with 2 oz samples, I will be able to try a lot of these but not even close to all of them. My strategy is to stick to ones specifically that I have never tried before, especially beers you can't get at all around here. I have done the research and found that there are rave reviews for lawsons, jackie o's, cambridge, goose island, amherst, etc. I will start with some of my high anticipated choices and work my way around. And, just like at the vermont brew fest I will need to take notes to keep track. I am very excited to try these never before sampled brewers. A lot of the brewers I tried for the first time in vermont are still all time favorites today. It will be quite an adventure and a lot of blogging material to come from it! I will let you all know how it goes. Cheers!

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