Irvine Brew Festival (BrewHaHa) 9/11

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Irvine Brew Festival (BrewHaHa) 9/11

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Is anyone else going? If you enter code VERGD at checkout you upgrade to a VIP ticket for free ($10 value):

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I am going with a few friends. The code "BREWFB" does the same thing.
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I'm going. It's a little disappointing that the discount code was offered after a lot of people bought tickets. Basically since I was interested enough in the event to buy tickets early I won't be rewarded with a free VIP upgrade.
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I was going to go but SurlyFest is the next weekend :happybeer:
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rex wrote:I'm going. It's a little disappointing that the discount code was offered after a lot of people bought tickets. Basically since I was interested enough in the event to buy tickets early I won't be rewarded with a free VIP upgrade.
You might try sending an email. Sounds like the organizer really wants this to be successful and to continue in subsequent years.
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This was a really good time and very well done I think. Not to many hammered drunks (in fact, I didn't see any but I heard 1 guy hurled on the way out) The venue was really nice, huge shade trees. I never realized the old Lion Country Safari grounds were still so intact. I just assumed they'd been taken down dacades ago.

I tasted lots of good beers and a few not-so-good beers. It was nice talking to Tim from Craft Brewers from Lake Elsinore. He's one of the 4 guys from Temecula Valley Brewers that started that little Nano Brewery over there. Welp, it was nice to hear they've been forced to move up from their 1.5 bbl brewery and are taking delivery of a 16 bbl full skid brew-house and four 20bbl fermenters next week. Stone picked them up for distribution as well.

I've always been a fan of Mammoth Brewing and was really happy to see they brought the Double Nut Brown Ale with them, that's probably one of my favorite commercial beers. I talked with Sean from Anderson Valley for a bit and did a side-by-side with their canned beer and draft. I couldn't tell them apart.

The Bruery had big lines as can be expected. There was a great BBQ food server that had one of those huge tow-behind snmoker setups, My tri-tip sandwhich was great and teh wife loved the ribs.

Anyway, I really recommend this event next year. Dave Moody said he thought they might try for an early Spring date as well. A very good time.

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Soccer schedules kept me from this year's again... <sigh> Sounds like a great event! Will have to double my efforts for next year!
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Greetings from Brew Ha Ha!
Great event at the old Lion Country Safari. No lions but I think there might have been a few cougars.
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So many breweries. Some newer ones that I didn't know existed.
Great tasting beers, good food from the Side Door in Corona Del Mar, good weather, well behaved crowd, good music too.
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See you there next year!
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Um...Don, the two ladies in the picture might *technically* qualify as Cougars, but I would not count them. :lol:
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Sorry I missed it. Had a wedding to attend. Maybe next year.
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada down at Trader Vic's
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oc eric wrote:Um...Don, the two ladies in the picture might *technically* qualify as Cougars, but I would not count them. :lol:
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I don't know who those women in the picture are so it's best to remove it now. If there were any cougars there, it's a good thing for me that they go for younger prey.
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backhousebrew wrote:I don't know who those women in the picture are so it's best to remove it now. If there were any cougars there, it's a good thing for me that they go for younger prey.
Yes, I believe that "Silverbacks" are poisonous to Cougars and thus, they avoid them like the plague.
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