WYES Beer Tasting – What to look forward to [Updated]

by vasu tummala

I wanted to wait until the right moment to talk about the WYES’ 25th Annual International Beer Tasting. When they first posted the announcement with date & location, there wasn’t a vendors list, so there wasn’t much to talk about. And then by the time they did post the vendor listing, well, I kinda forgot to check back .. my bad. So to start off, the event will be Saturday June 7th, from 6pm-8pm at UNO Lakefront Arena (head over to the WYES site for ticket info…)

The WYES event is kinda weird for a few reasons. I’m pretty sure that it’s the only beer “tasting” rather than beer fest. Never quite understood the title .. perhaps they’re just trying to class up beer by making it seem like a wine tasting? It’s also the only beer event I’ve ever been to, or heard of, where the majority of the beer present is provided by the local distributor rather than the brewery. Sure, everything that’s available for sale in the city will be there. However, it means there’s a major dearth of American craft and micro brews, mirroring store shelves in nola. So at the distributor booths, often the people hocking the beer don’t know much about good beer. When I ask “Can you tell me about this beer?” I want to hear more than “Well..uhh.. it’s a wheat beer .. from Belgium…” Thanks, I can read the bottle too, guy. But I’m not bitter, because the fest makes up for itself in a wide array of homebrewers. We don’t get eclectic beers from America’s most creative breweries, but we do get even crazier beers from locals, and as everyone knows, great inventions come out of people fiddling around in the garage or kitchen.

WYES Beer Tasting – What to look forward to [Updated]

by vasu tummala

I wanted to wait until the right moment to talk about the WYES’ 25th Annual International Beer Tasting. When they first posted the announcement with date & location, there wasn’t a vendors list, so there wasn’t much to talk about. And then by the time they did post the vendor listing, well, I kinda forgot to check back .. my bad. So to start off, the event will be Saturday June 7th, from 6pm-8pm at UNO Lakefront Arena (head over to the WYES site for ticket info…)

The WYES event is kinda weird for a few reasons. I’m pretty sure that it’s the only beer “tasting” rather than beer fest. Never quite understood the title .. perhaps they’re just trying to class up beer by making it seem like a wine tasting? It’s also the only beer event I’ve ever been to, or heard of, where the majority of the beer present is provided by the local distributor rather than the brewery. Sure, everything that’s available for sale in the city will be there. However, it means there’s a major dearth of American craft and micro brews, mirroring store shelves in nola. So at the distributor booths, often the people hocking the beer don’t know much about good beer. When I ask “Can you tell me about this beer?” I want to hear more than “Well..uhh.. it’s a wheat beer .. from Belgium…” Thanks, I can read the bottle too, guy. But I’m not bitter, because the fest makes up for itself in a wide array of homebrewers. We don’t get eclectic beers from America’s most creative breweries, but we do get even crazier beers from locals, and as everyone knows, great inventions come out of people fiddling around in the garage or kitchen.

Read more about this beer tasting here

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