Review of Beer Summit Winter Jubillee

On Jan 14th and 15th of 2011 was the annual Beer Summitt Winter Jubillee held at the Park Plaza Castle. This years fest was incredible with aproximately 60 breweries and 200 beers. The fest seemed more organized and steamlined than past years. It also appeared to have more open spaces to relax in, as previous events left you feeling sardine like. The crowd as usual was very enthusiastic but not overly vocal as some other events with no known altercations happening at our session. As far as breweries mentioning all would be to much but for a rundown of our favorite/best of fest.
Brewery- Fishermans with two outstanding beers there Stout run thru coffee and the Accidental Eis-DIPA (keg partially froze in brewers trunk)
Blend- "CHUCK-BERRRRRRRYYY" which was Woodchuck Cider with Seadog Blueberry
Innovative Idea- Choklat Float a medallion of vanilla ice cream floated on Southern Tier Choklat.
Surprise- Cody Brewing after having a bad experience at another fest with their beer Cody came roaring back and blew us away. Their Brown was to form and the Whiskey Aged Stout phenominal (if bottled I need this)
New to Us- BNektar Meadary Mead is a new beverage for us and these guys really opened our eyes to the range of flavor available with T loving their Pyment (mead w/ grapes)
There were several other excellent showings Haverhill/TAP with their Joshua Norton Stout , Ithica 13 , Watch City 1yr old Kingpin Imperial Stout , Clown Shoes Tramp Stamp , as well as beers from DogFishHead , Lagunitas , Founders , Brooklyn , Victory Sam Adams and many others.

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