Things I Love To Do: Try new beer. When (another) beer festival was coming to town, I knew I had to make an appearance. $35 and four hours of tastings later, I was certainly a happy girl.Last weekend Cajun Cafe on the Bayou opened its doors to various breweries and home brewers and let us enjoy the great weather while sipping on a variety of cold beverages. I must admit that I did find some new favorite beers (and ciders!), and I enjoyed some old favorites.
The Cajun Cafe was very cute out back. Lots of New Orleans inspired colors everywhere and a cute view! It was the perfect setting for something like this. It also was not very crowded which I enjoyed. One thing about beer festivals (or any festival in general) is the long wait sometimes associated with the more popular items. We did not have to wait very long for anything. That ruled.
Scenes from the festival:
The lucky lady who came with me
The bayou out back
The lucky lady who came with me
The bayou out back
Ciders I had never tried before. The one on the left was a honey cider. They also had maple syrup and molasses flavors! 
One of our new favorites. It was SO yum. It was a Banana Bread Beer.
I've never seen it before!
Another favorite: Fruli. It was a strawberry beer. Very sweet!
We kept asking for refills of the Fruli so eventually they just handed us the bottle.
In case you're ever in the area, this place is my *favorite.*
The Dunedin Brewery has my favorite beer--an Apricot Wheat!
At the end of the festival, they raffled off a ton of beer items. I didn't think I was going to win anything.... but I did! Twice! First was this big bottle of booze from St. Somewhere's Brewery. They are a local brewery housed in Tarpon Springs, FL.
Up close of the bottle. Nice... 8%!
So, all in all, it was a great day. Last weekend was certainly busy, and this was just one of the highlights. I'm all about local breweries and events like this, I'd love to hear your favorite local beer or wine.
Do you attend tastings?
13 comments:
Loving your teal nails! This sounds fun... I'm not a big beer drinker but I can usually handle some fruity flavored ones
This is so fun! I didn't know Tarpon had a brewery!
How do you find out about these tastings? I need to get on that email list!
I am such a beer drinker! We have a craft beer festival coming to Jacksonville next month - can't wait!! That Banana Bread beer looks delish!!
Strawberry and Banana Bread Beer?! Yes, please :o)
I wish I knew about this, my husband brews beer and loooves craft and microbrews!
How fun! My husband woud be in beer heaven ;)
My husband would love this! I'm not a fan of beer, but I think it would be fun to try all the different kinds!
Oh I love me some beer but have never been to an actual tasting! Looks like y'all had a blast! :D
that looks like such a good time! love trying new beers, too.
we went to a wine tasting here which was great because they had lots of chocolate too! mmmm :)
when I'm back in the area I will definitely try the Apricot wheat beer, sounds delicious!
Banana bread beer sounds AMAAAAZING! I have only been to wine tastings but this looks like a lot of fun, I will have to check one out :-)
Ahh love the pics, i am a beer drinking! i cant wait to we have another beer fest here!
xoxo,
Lisa
We are considering going to a Beer Fest in May - looks like a similar event. I am not much of a beer drinker but my husband loves it. Great Lakes Brewery teams up with The Melting Pot around here and offers a quarterly Brewmaster Dinner - each course of fondue comes with an accompanying beer. I think we are going to try it out next time! The beers are small but I told Rob I'd give him mine after I have a quick sip :)
He is a big homebrewer - have you ever tried that? He has a whole brewery thing going on in the basement and loves doing it. It doesn't seem that hard, he buys kits online and with few exceptions has always liked the beer he has made.
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