This weekend the Great American Beer Festival took place at the Denver Convention Center, and as usual, it was sold out for all three days (Thursday thru Saturday) within minutes of tickets going on sale. It is a pretty pricey event, and so I have never actually attended - surprise! - but it seems to take over the media spotlight here in Denver every year. There are something like 200 (or possibly 2000) breweries represented, and you are given a mug so that you can sample each one. It attracts people from all over the country, as well as all the world for all I know. And it is the out-of-towners who I am most worried about. Denverites already know that there is a huge blue bear peering into the convention center window (top left photograph), but visitors to Denver do not. What happens after they sample all 2,000 brews, step out into the lobby, and see that? I hope there were plenty of paramedics on hand.
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