Not a deal-breaker, my friends and I still had a great time just shooting the **** and trying a variety of beers, but they should've been more clear about that from the get go since the idea of seeing beers from FFF, New Glarus, and Cigar City on tap is quite different from trying the collaborations they did with Sierra Nevada.The year to follow will be a great one, given the worst of the lockdowns have eased up, and the party and nightlife are about to be restored to their former glory. The marketing about the 12 collab brewers and whether they'd be pouring beer was kind of disappointing - it became clear as the fest approached that it was optional for them to show up and pour their own beers, but that was well after tickets went on sale. If they do this again, the only change I'd look for is more portable tents, specifically some tables under tents so that you can grab a seat for a while and sit in the shade. Plenty of water (at least for the first few hours, we left around 4:30), an abundance of porta-potties, and the only area that got really congested was the collaboration tent - likely because it was the only real shade. Showed up around 12:50, got ID and ticket processed quickly, stood in the holding area for ten minutes, then released into the actual fest. Overall, the fest was about what I expected beer-wise and was organizationally solid. I grabbed a couple pours of Supplication while the line wasn't too bad, hard to pass that up. I guess it's cool for Russian River, but it's not as if it's hard to find PtE on tap in San Diego. Click to expand.The Pliny line was hilarious considering nothing else had a line of more than five people all day.
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