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Last weekend we went up to the Seaside ale festival with a couple of friends. First, we stopped at the Wine & Beer Haus in the outlet mall. This was a great find – they have about 300 bottles beers and you can either buy to take away, or consume on the premises if they’re under (I believe) 11%. I went for an Irish red and my friend went for a hop bomb (I wish I made a note of the exact beers).
Next call was, of course, the ale festival – just down the road at the Seaside convention center. Since there were four of us, we went for the $50 package which gave us four tasting glasses and 24 tokens. This worked out to be perfect since towards the end of the night we had about a dozen more tokens given to us for free from people who were leaving!
The ale festival had a great atmosphere, with live music throughout. Over a dozen breweries were represented, including the coming-soon Seaside Brewing Company who offered a great stout.
This is one of the few festivals I’ve gone to where I got to try every beer on offer. Since there were four of us, we could sample different beers amongst ourselves – I certainly wouldn’t have been able to walk away if I’d got full samples of each beer!
The event also included a homebrew competition. I was going to enter an oatmeal stout but I was concerned it wasn’t quite ready when I tried it a week before the festival. Unfortunately, I cracked a bottle open the night before the ale festival and it tasted great – so I am kicking myself for not putting it in.
Lucky for us, we were able to sample the remaining beers from the homebrew entries (no tasting tickets required). This was my first time tasting homebrew that I didn’t make myself. Although I had to avoid the bottles that looked as though they were infected (I spotted two that had the never-ending slow but steady foam fountain), I enjoyed the ones I sampled.
Overall this was a great festival in a smaller venue and a great time was had by all. I voted for Seaside Brewing Company’s stout as the best in show – they came in second place, edged out by Goodlife Brewing.
I’m already looking forward to next year’s event. Seaside proved that you don’t need a big venue in a big city to pull off a great ale festival!