Craft beer festival

[chickenfeet]

We went to a craft beer festival at Roundhouse Park yesterday. It was a lovely sunny afternoon and there were maybe ten breweries represented plus half a dozen food trucks. There's a lot of experimentation going on in the craft brewing world. The dominant trend seems to be to take a traditional style; a Belgian ale or an English bitter, say, and hop it up with Cascades or something similar. It's rather fun if one likes hoppy beers. There's also a lot of experimentation with Brettomyces going on and still a bit of a hangover of the "who can brew the biggest and baddest IPA" trend of a couple of years back.

The food trucks seem mostly to be doing BBQ or southern style which is fine by me. The sandwich below, not eaten by me, combines fried chicken, candied bacon and waffles. We stuck to BBQ which really isn't as photogenic.

Comments

[frandroid]

The biggest and baddest trend is a turnoff for me (hello flying monkeys) but I have found myself pleasantly surprised with Muskoka's Mad Tom IPA... I guess it's a question of biggest, baddest and tastiest. It doesn't take a genius to add more flavourful hops to an ale, but it takes one to make it work well.