Fremont Blocktoberfest
Saturday afternoon found me at the Fremont Oktoberfest. I gather this happens every year, and festivities included some hippie displays of sarongs and jewelry, and one cool setup with a huge lens that focused sunlight to melt glass into earrings. I watched for a minute as a small red dot (I guess it was glass?) started smoking on a rock, but I didn't touch it to see how hot it was. About some things, I've found in my old age, I'm just not curious.
Before paying the $25 dollars to get in, we hobbled on over to the second stage, where a small band was playing something interesting but not up my alley. There was this big, goofy looking bassist whose guitar was the same color as mine who was absolutely losing his mind onstage. Fun to watch (I always love a live show), but not for too long. We passed by the beer garden for the hops of the event (get it?) and paid our money for a small mug plastered with labels for The Stranger and ten pieces of cardboard that looked like pogs, each good for one fillup of said mugs with a different microbrew.
I didn't count, but there must have been over a hundred different microbrews. Some I'd heard of -- Pyramid, Sierra Nevada -- but most I hadn't. I've never been much a fan of microbrews, so all the lagers and ales tasted pretty much the same. Decent in my emasculating plastic mug, but I'd never order a whole pint. I did have one porter called Big Butte and I made a crack to the guy serving it about the "big-assed porter" but I don't think he got it. Oh well, Peter Griffin would have.
Anyway, the mainstage was inside all this beerfest but we got in just as one band was finishing their set and although we sat around for a while the next "band" seemed to be these two guys who got up and rapped over good songs we already liked. It was certainly no "Walk This Way" and rest in peace Jam Master Jay thank you very much.
So the whole ordeal wasn't especially mind-blowing, but a beer-tasting is pretty much always fun. Although having the equivalent of two pints in the middle of the afternoon and then sitting around is generally uncomfortable. Basically, the nature of this post reflects my feelings on the event. I was hoping to flesh it out with a long talk about Star Wars, but I think I can put that off for now.
Before paying the $25 dollars to get in, we hobbled on over to the second stage, where a small band was playing something interesting but not up my alley. There was this big, goofy looking bassist whose guitar was the same color as mine who was absolutely losing his mind onstage. Fun to watch (I always love a live show), but not for too long. We passed by the beer garden for the hops of the event (get it?) and paid our money for a small mug plastered with labels for The Stranger and ten pieces of cardboard that looked like pogs, each good for one fillup of said mugs with a different microbrew.
I didn't count, but there must have been over a hundred different microbrews. Some I'd heard of -- Pyramid, Sierra Nevada -- but most I hadn't. I've never been much a fan of microbrews, so all the lagers and ales tasted pretty much the same. Decent in my emasculating plastic mug, but I'd never order a whole pint. I did have one porter called Big Butte and I made a crack to the guy serving it about the "big-assed porter" but I don't think he got it. Oh well, Peter Griffin would have.
Anyway, the mainstage was inside all this beerfest but we got in just as one band was finishing their set and although we sat around for a while the next "band" seemed to be these two guys who got up and rapped over good songs we already liked. It was certainly no "Walk This Way" and rest in peace Jam Master Jay thank you very much.
So the whole ordeal wasn't especially mind-blowing, but a beer-tasting is pretty much always fun. Although having the equivalent of two pints in the middle of the afternoon and then sitting around is generally uncomfortable. Basically, the nature of this post reflects my feelings on the event. I was hoping to flesh it out with a long talk about Star Wars, but I think I can put that off for now.
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