So while normally we’d dig through our drunken notes and figure out the best beers from the festival… we figured we’d go through this festival, beer by beer, in the order the festival recommended we consume it, and share with you our first big virtual beer festival experience. If we couldn’t enjoy the camaraderie in person… this festival did as good a job recreating it online as we could’ve possibly expected. Todd and Sam did a great job hosting an entertaining and informative livestream, and the forums contained a number of interesting questions for the brewers and videos from the brewers. There were definitely fewer *crazy* beers than we’ve had at the in-person festivals, but then again, we have to consume 12 ounces minimum of these beers, so the fact that these beers were more on the palatable side of extreme is definitely a good thing. Even if we don’t think the beer tastes good? We thoroughly appreciate the experience of a beer making us think about beer in a different way.įortunately, all of the beer from Extreme Beer Fest: Cyberspace tasted good. We love little more than trying a beer that pushes our boundaries. Most of all, we’re into extreme beer- any brewery we’ve gone to will attest to this.
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It was one of the first festivals we attended in Los Angeles after moving to the west coast. It was the first festival we covered for this website.
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So when we heard BeerAdvocate was doing Extreme Beer Fest virtually in 2021… we jumped at the opportunity to join.Įxtreme Beer Fest holds a place near and dear to our heart. We’ve missed beer festivals desperately: our friends we’d see regularly, the variety of beers we’d get to share, and the camaraderie that comes with being surrounded by fellow craft beer lovers for an afternoon.
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In fact, our last true beer fest was a year ago to date, before the pandemic shut down the entire beer festival circuit. It’s been far too long since our last beer festival.