What I Learned From SF Beer Week
I’ve come to realize that I’m not great at documenting my beer travels. I want to experience everything, rather than constantly take pictures and jot down notes, which really kills the mood. Also, I don’t have the discipline to sit in my hotel with my morning hangover and blog about the previous day’s adventures. I have respect for writers who go out and really enjoy themselves, and then turn around a blog post early the next day. I wish I could do that.
My experience at SF Beer Week was mostly great. I drank some amazing beer, attended my first beer dinner, met some cool people and got to spend time with friends. The Firestone Walker/Homebrew Chef dinner and the Russian River beers with the Brouwer’s/Bottleworks crew at Toronado was a definite high point. I also braved the Toronado Barleywine Fest and made time for The Celebrator Best of the West Fest, an open house at Speakeasy and Strong Beer Month at Magnolia/ 21st Amendment. And that was just the Beer Week stuff. There were also trips to Tommy’s Tequila, the Hyde-Out and Golden Boy Pizza. Nothing personal Seattle, but I miss living in SF.
The downside were the beer douches. Everyone knows how I hate them, and the events were full of them. These were the “industry people,” mostly us media folk, who split 50/50 between the friendly and the standoffish and pompous. While these assholes didn’t completely kill my desire to continue blogging, it did make me question why I write about beer and what I hope to accomplish. I want to take writing more seriously, but I fear it might lead to a place where I don’t want to be.
February 20, 2009 at 4:09 am
Don’t worry about it dude, as long as you worry about becoming a douche it will never happen.
February 20, 2009 at 5:58 am
More pictures! Especially if someone has something funny hanging out of their back pocket. No, just give me beer pictures and pointed comments.
February 25, 2009 at 3:50 am
I am sure you have plenty of friends who will punch you in the balls if you start getting douchey helping you snap out of it. So just keep writing about beer because god knows we need some beer bloggers writing who aren’t complete douche-bags.