Over the weekend Lobster and I attended the Get Real Cask Festival in New York City. We attended the early session on Sunday, and apparently because a lobster vendor didn't show up, everyone with a ticket to that session was allowed to also sample the VIP beers. This was great news for us, as we weren't even expecting a lobster vendor to be there in the first place. More importantly though, we hadn't realized that our ticket would not give us access to all the beers. We were under the understanding that the VIP ticket just allowed you to enter the session an hour early. More than disappointed, I would have been really furious that I paid $65.00 for a ticket and wasn't allowed to try everything, especially because there wasn't a clear list before-hand of the VIP only beers. Many of the beers I was most excited to try were in fact the VIP beers, and I would have been irate at not being able to sample them. (I know I could have bought a VIP ticket, but the only advantage a VIP appeared to have was just an extra tasting hour - but perhaps I just misunderstood.)
Onto the beer. Lobster and I had done some research beforehand and knew which beers we wanted to try out early. These included The Bruery's beers, Ommegang Zuur, Cigar City I.P.A., the Nebraska beers, and Pretty Things' beers.
