After making fun of it last year along with others here, I actualy had
a great time ad cant wait for it to take place again this saturday
10-18-2003.

Advance tickets are $15 for unlimited 2oz samples of virtually every
beer available in the area from all over the world and lots of value
priced bar-food vendors including Old Chicago Calzones and Hooters
wings (if its like last years fest anyway). Woo Hoo cant wait!!!

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, J Stanley wrote:

After making fun of it last year along with others here, I actualy had
a great time ad cant wait for it to take place again this saturday
10-18-2003.

Advance tickets are $15 for unlimited 2oz samples of virtually every
beer available in the area from all over the world and lots of value
priced bar-food vendors including Old Chicago Calzones and Hooters
wings (if its like last years fest anyway). Woo Hoo cant wait!!!



The fest itself is so-so...pretty much the exact same selection found at
the better local stores, so nothing new here, except you can get pours of
Utopias without having to shell out the $$$.
One also hopes each year that New Belgium will bring something not
available on the local shelves like La Folie or NBB Love or
Transatlantique Kriek, but they so far haven't and doubtful will this
time.
Here the real shit-kicker though, the $45 per plate "beer dinner" the
night before, hosted by Joe Sixpack of the Philly Enquirer...and a more
ridiculous looking beer list I've never seen:
http://www.midwestbeerfest.com/world_beer_dinner.htm

Here the real shit-kicker though, the $45 per plate "beer dinner" the
night before, hosted by Joe Sixpack of the Philly Enquirer...and a more
ridiculous looking beer list I've never seen:
http://www.midwestbeerfest.com/world_beer_dinner.htm

Pete's brews are from WISCONSIN? I am SO ashamed. I'm afraid I'm going
to have to drown my sorrows in a bucket of Sublime Hard Raspberry Lemonade
with an Amstel Light chaser.

"Douglas W. Hoyt" wrote on 13 Oct 2003:

Here the real shit-kicker though, the $45 per plate "beer
dinner" the
night before, hosted by Joe Sixpack of the Philly Enquirer...and
a more ridiculous looking beer list I've never seen:
http://www.midwestbeerfest.com/world_beer_dinner.htm

Snrf. Boy howdy, that's...what's the word? Sad? With all the decent
to FG beers coming to the event, they're serving food paired with SA
Cherry Wheat? Michelob Black & Tan?? Leinenkugal [sic] Red??? I guess
Joe Sixpack wants to be in touch with the common man. Or the chefs
don't normally have access to good beer.

Pete's brews are from WISCONSIN? I am SO ashamed. I'm afraid
I'm going to have to drown my sorrows in a bucket of Sublime Hard
Raspberry Lemonade with an Amstel Light chaser.

Thought the Pete's line was produced in Texas now. Wish there were
someone with insider knowledge around who could set us straight.

Witzel

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 05:34:03 GMT, Dave Witzel
wrote:

"Douglas W. Hoyt" wrote on 13 Oct 2003:

Here the real shit-kicker though, the $45 per plate "beer
dinner" the
night before, hosted by Joe Sixpack of the Philly Enquirer...and
a more ridiculous looking beer list I've never seen:
http://www.midwestbeerfest.com/world_beer_dinner.htm

Snrf. Boy howdy, that's...what's the word? Sad? With all the decent
to FG beers coming to the event, they're serving food paired with SA
Cherry Wheat? Michelob Black & Tan?? Leinenkugal [sic] Red??? I guess
Joe Sixpack wants to be in touch with the common man. Or the chefs
don't normally have access to good beer.

I guess I can punt using up those FF points to fly to Wichita then.
Okay, fine, maybe Chicago next year or something.

Pete's brews are from WISCONSIN? I am SO ashamed. I'm afraid
I'm going to have to drown my sorrows in a bucket of Sublime Hard
Raspberry Lemonade with an Amstel Light chaser.

Thought the Pete's line was produced in Texas now. Wish there were
someone with insider knowledge around who could set us straight.

In the absence of such a person - well, I did talk to the original
Pete recently, and might be out drinkin' with him on Wednesday night -
I can offer that Pete's is produced in a couple of places. The
company that owns the brand is in Texas, though.
--
Nobody You Know

"Dave Witzel" wrote in message
"Douglas W. Hoyt" wrote on 13 Oct 2003:
Here the real shit-kicker though, the $45 per plate "beer
dinner" the
night before, hosted by Joe Sixpack of the Philly Enquirer...and
a more ridiculous looking beer list I've never seen:
http://www.midwestbeerfest.com/world_beer_dinner.htm

Snrf. Boy howdy, that's...what's the word? Sad? With all the decent
to FG beers coming to the event, they're serving food paired with SA
Cherry Wheat? Michelob Black & Tan?? Leinenkugal [sic] Red??? I guess
Joe Sixpack wants to be in touch with the common man. Or the chefs
don't normally have access to good beer.

Joe (Don Russell) is in touch with the common man -- he's a pretty much
unassuming kind of guy, not given to putting on airs; he actually writes for
the Philly Daily News, not the Inky (that's INquirer, Doug!) -- but I
seriously doubt he would have selected those beers. I've broken bread with
him at Monk's on a number of occasions, and he definitely has a taste for
the finer beers. Having been the victim of things like this in the past, I'd
conjecture that Don agreed to do it, and THEN the beer-ignorant chefs picked
the beers. Probably by the labels or by the advice of the local beer sales
twerps.

--
Lew Bryson

www.LewBryson.com
Author of "New York Breweries" and "Pennsylvania Breweries," 2nd ed., both
available at www.amazon.com
The Hotmail address on this post is for newsgroups only: I don't check it,
or respond to it. Spam away.

Douglas W. Hoyt wrote:
http://www.midwestbeerfest.com/world_beer_dinner.htm

Pete's brews are from WISCONSIN? I am SO ashamed. I'm afraid I'm going
to have to drown my sorrows in a bucket of Sublime Hard Raspberry Lemonade
with an Amstel Light chaser.

Is that where Pete's is brewed now? Was in Minnesota for
awhile, then when bought by Gambrinus was breewd in places
like Tumwater and, um, somewhere down south (IIRC).
Now I see that's it's been dumbed down yet again-- less
hops, next to no chocolate malt. Sheesh, have they no shame?
Does anyone with a respect for beer still drink it?
--
Joel Plutchak plutchak@[...] | Boneyard Union of Zymurgical Zealots

"I don't like beer. I tried it once and thought it was terrible."
- Overheard at a restaurant

Dave Witzel wrote:
I guess Joe Sixpack wants to be in touch with the common man. Or
the chefs don't normally have access to good beer.

Have you read some of "Joe Sixpack" columns? S/he certainly
doesn't aim at the beer snob market. (Not that there's anything
wrong with that...)

Thought the Pete's line was produced in Texas now. Wish there were
someone with insider knowledge around who could set us straight.

Sadly, rfdb has never had a good source of professional
inside information. Would've been a nice resource for the
group.
--
Joel Plutchak plutchak@[...] | Boneyard Union of Zymurgical Zealots

"I don't like beer. I tried it once and thought it was terrible."
- Overheard at a restaurant

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:31:56 GMT, (plutchak joel
peter) wrote:

Douglas W. Hoyt wrote:
http://www.midwestbeerfest.com/world_beer_dinner.htm

Pete's brews are from WISCONSIN?

Is that where Pete's is brewed now? Was in Minnesota for
awhile, then when bought by Gambrinus was breewd in places
like Tumwater and, um, somewhere down south (IIRC).

Eden, NC ....cannot remember who was breing there in the past, but is
was one of the "old-time" breweries (Stroh's, Miller, etc).

Sean

Expletive Deleted wrote in message enn.edu...

One also hopes each year that New Belgium will bring something not
available on the local shelves like La Folie or NBB Love or
Transatlantique Kriek, but they so far haven't and doubtful will this
time.

Hey, lets write em a letter and let them know we wanna see that stuf.

BTW, I have a bottle of la folie you are welcome to. I'll be the
really really drunk guy from the local coors distributor. I cant
stand la folie.

(plutchak joel peter) wrote on 14 Oct 2003:

Dave Witzel wrote:
I guess Joe Sixpack wants to be in touch with the common man. Or
the chefs don't normally have access to good beer.

Have you read some of "Joe Sixpack" columns? S/he certainly
doesn't aim at the beer snob market. (Not that there's anything
wrong with that...)

Uh, no, but with a name like Joe Sixpack I didn't figure him to be a
Snob. See also Lew's post, naturally.

Thought the Pete's line was produced in Texas now. Wish there
were someone with insider knowledge around who could set us
straight.

Sadly, rfdb has never had a good source of professional
inside information. Would've been a nice resource for the
group.

Probably too busy running their respective businesses to lurk in
newsgroups. Hell, Bertha even took several months off, and it ain't
like "she" was running a major brewery, just writing all the time.

Didn't we used to have a Budweiser worker around these parts?

Witzel

The attendence this year was really good and I think everyone had a
great time. I ended up working through most of it so my glass only
was graced with Buly! Porter, but that isnt all bad.

Durring cleanup I heard a group of police officers plotting to make
sure it never takes place again. I sure hope this isnt the case.
Wichita PD is filled with morons. Most people were pretty well
behaved for the level of drunkeness. I guess they just dont like
seeing people have a good time

(J Stanley) wrote in message . com...
After making fun of it last year along with others here, I actualy had
a great time ad cant wait for it to take place again this saturday
10-18-2003.

Advance tickets are $15 for unlimited 2oz samples of virtually every
beer available in the area from all over the world and lots of value
priced bar-food vendors including Old Chicago Calzones and Hooters
wings (if its like last years fest anyway). Woo Hoo cant wait!!!

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, J Stanley wrote:

The attendence this year was really good and I think everyone had a
great time. I ended up working through most of it so my glass only
was graced with Buly! Porter, but that isnt all bad.

Durring cleanup I heard a group of police officers plotting to make
sure it never takes place again. I sure hope this isnt the case.
Wichita PD is filled with morons. Most people were pretty well
behaved for the level of drunkeness. I guess they just dont like
seeing people have a good time


i couldn't make it due to a last minute unforeseen event, which really
****ed me off because I missed the event for no good reason really.
But that last comment from the police...thats terrible but pretty typical
of Wichita. sheesh.