The first ever Midwest Brewers festival was held along a river bank in the western suburbs of Plainfield, IL. I was quite surprised that the festival ran from noon til 8pm. As usually most fests run for only a few hours. Anyways, me, 12 pack, and the six pack spent pretty much the whole day there consuming some fine ass beers.
They had quite a huge selection of beers at this festival as well as a home brewers tent where you could sample some of the local home brews. The best beer that they had at the home brewers was an American style wheat from the Brew Shed. It was so good that I had about 3 or 4 samples of it. There was this other homebrew there and when we looked at it we passed on sampling it. This stuff looked real nasty and was coming out in clumps which is why we forgo drinking it.
Later on we managed to get into the VIP tent cause that is just how Chicago Beer Belly rolls. Okay so if we are VIPS then why do we have to stand in line to get some beer? We didn't think that paying for VIP was worth the extra money to shell out. All you really got was some private toilets, little bit of food and a few more beers to sample. Best beer from the VIP tent was a bourbon stout from Two Brothers Brewery. I was disappointed that they did ot have their Cain & Ebel Red Rye there to sample as that is my favorite beer by them. Yet, they were selling shirts for it so it just didn't make much sense to not have the beer on hand.
Was a pretty good day spent at the beer festival and met some cool people while we were there. Hats off to the Brew Shed in the home brew tent as they were cool dudes. Would definitely attend this festival in the future as there was plenty off beer on hand and quite the variety of it to sample from hoppy and bitter IPA's to light and refreshing hefeweizens.. Cheers!!!!!!
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