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In order to bring craft beer to the masses, Beer Advocate held the American Craft Beer Fest at the Seaport World Trade Center. With the move from the much smaller Cyclorama came a larger crowd - from the old limit of 1,200 to up to 5,000 people at each session. The result was a lot more beer being served but a lot more douchebags showing up to get their drink on with little regard to appreciating beer - in effect, not respecting beer as the Alström brothers would want us all to do. Stupidity aside, we managed to have a good time, sampling the beers the brewers presented. I’ll look forward to their return to the Cyclorama for the Belgian Beer Fest in September.

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This past weekend was the ‘Cask Head’ Cask Ale Festival at The Brazen Head in Brooklyn. At $4 for a 10-ounce sample or, if one were feeling bold, $6 for a 16-ounce sample, there was plenty of beer coming out of those casks. Despite some of the more-anticipated casks not making it to the event, Alex Hall did an excellent job at lining up some top-notch beers for the festival.

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This past weekend, I went with a couple of friends to Beer Advocate’s Extreme Beer Fest. We attended two sessions - the photos in this post are from the first session. By the time Jess took this photo of us with Jim Koch (center), the founder of the Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams), we’d all had quite a bit to drink. It appeared that Jim had more than we had - at the very least, he was definitely further gone than we were. Who cares - it’s Jim fuckin’ Koch!

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