The Boilover

I don’t really have the time to write the narrative I did last year, but for this Fermentable Friday (or Friday? Beer!) I thought I’d throw some pictures up of my Friday excursion to the Cincy Winter Beerfest. You can check out Saturday’s action here.

I liked last years 1 night, crazy venue, tons of great-beer-I-had-never-heard-of event. This year just felt a little more corporate; big box space in Duke Energy, still plenty of awesome beer, but c’mon Bell’s no Hopslam?!?!

Still had a blast though, and went both nights to see the difference. Friday was way more relaxed, Saturday had lines snaking all through the convention center.

Good times, good people, life is good.

Plenty of selection, that’s for sure:

Like I said, more good times:

Oh yeah, and some friends had us over for homemade late night sushi afterwords….

Still well worth the price of admission!

So I forgot to shoot a week 5 photo, the label for which was transportation. I should’ve taken one of my broken bike (Oh Snap), as that is the transportation I am missing the most as spring starts to roll in.

Anywho, here are weeks 6-9. Of course, you can catch all the zany photo action with the Flicker Group.

Week 6 Fragile: Broken Beverages

Week 7 Texture: Washington Park Dirt

Week 8 Unusual Perspective: Weird Beer at the Bells Tasting

Week 9 Get Out and Shoot: Trojan Goat*

*Plenty more Bockfest photos to come, I promise

Right around this time last year I wrote about 2010′s Bockfestivities. It seems that for this Fermentable Friday (or Friday? BEER!) it’s only appropriate to revisit that wonderful post full of lagered (or bocked) memories in prep for tonight’s Springtime/Beer/Sausage/Goat celebration.

The kicker for me was looking at last year’s post and seeing this picture:

A shot of Arnolds from inside the front door, it captures three of my favorite bartenders in one of the best establishments in town. My caption from last year read “What I imagine (or at least hope) Laura, Pam, and the other Bartender who’s name I don’t know were thinking.”

The best part is now “the other Bartender who’s name I don’t know” is actually my girlfriend….what a difference a year makes. At least now I should be able to get a drink a little faster….

Check out last year’s post for more pictures of Monks and Drunks.

And to the-bartender-who’s-name-I-now-know: thanks for being so awesome. While this won’t technically be our first Bockfest in each other’s presence, it should be even better than the last!

Nice to see these ladies (they are Queen Anne windows after all) restored to their original beauty. If you follow this blog you know these windows are some of my favorite in the city (and in Southernmost Florida), next to a certain rose window….

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After