The Beer Retard

I’ll be headed to Port Townsend tomorrow for the 5th Annual Strange Brewfest at Water Street. It’s my first time going to the fest and I know enough to expect two things: serious crowds and weird-ass, experimental beers. Check out the write-up on 2008 Strangebrew from Brad of the West Sound Brewers.

Using peppers seems to be a big theme in years past (last year’s brews included a red pepper porter from Flyers and a dark habanero beer from Elk Head), along with other herbs and spices like basil, ginger, ginseng, etc. I expect some of the experiments to be amazing and some to be complete train wrecks. Hopefully, I’ll choose my beers wisely.

The festival runs from 1-9 pm on Saturday and 1-5 pm on Sunday. The $20 entry gets you a souvenir tasting glass and 4 beer tokens. Seems a little steep price-wise, but I believe the tastes run around 6-8 ounces. Additional drink tokens and t-shirts will be available for purchase and they’ll have live music.

I’ll attempt to do a full recap of the event early next week, but you can also check out my drunken twitter updates from 1 pm on tomorrow (estimated time of drunkenness between 3-4 pm).

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