The Cocktail Hour: The Placerville Brewfest


As a retirement present, I received 3 VIP passes to the Placerville Brewfest. Placerville an historic Gold Rush metropolis inwards California, eastward of Sacramento. It's too the county spot of El Dorado County. The brewfest takes identify on the streets of downtown hither on a Sabbatum belatedly inwards June each year.

 The VIP passes teach us inwards an lx minutes early, a large drinking glass for tasting, together with a handbag to collect swag from the brewers on site. We teach a taxi to accept us from our hotel together with thence there'll last no inhibitions hither tonight...we guide maintain 4 hours to potable equally many samples equally nosotros can.

 After checking inwards together with getting our wristbands, nosotros on the prowl for brew...
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 It's inwards the mid 90's today on Main Street. The buildings on either side of us engagement dorsum to the Gold Rush. In fact, nosotros tin displace thirty minutes together with stand upwards on the piddling slice of sand where James Marshall institute the nugget that started it all. Today, the gilded is liquid. Well, nigh of it is. Some is crimson together with some of the porters are brown.

 We've got 3 blocks ahead of us, lined alongside people gear upwards to give us free, H2O ice mutual frigidity beer.

There are a few large guys hither similar Sierra Nevada, Deschutes, together with Gordon Biersch but the vast bulk of the booths are from little, local microbreweries alongside names similar Hangtown, Thin Line, Placerville Brewing, together with Amador Brewery.

 The best I tasted were the crimson ales from Placerville Brewing together with Campbell Brewing. Hangtown had a real prissy Saison together with Alamador a real practiced Kolsch.

 There were too a few cider breweries, a mead stand upwards (a piddling sweetness for me), together with a high-alcohol kambucha stand upwards called Booch Craft that was real interesting, sweetness but dry.

 The local homebrew gild was too pouring a real practiced dark porter.

Food was provided inwards samples yesteryear Round Table Pizza together with the Farm Table Restaurant. Tim liked the bratwurst from farm table. Plus, giant pretzels to hang only about your cervix spell you lot wandered through all that beer.

 See the video, above, where inwards 12 minutes you lot tin teach a real practiced feel of what it was to last at that spot addition run across the gunfight erupt betwixt contender breweries where I teach caught inwards the crossfire.

It was a real fun fest together with nosotros only mightiness guide maintain to teach inwards an annual tradition here.

 Darryl Musick
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