Sunday, October 01, 2006

Colorado 2006 Part 1: BeerFest

Saturday morning Barbara and I flew to Denver to visit the Wheatley's, go to the Great American Beer Festival, and tour SW CO.

Everything went swimmingly, for the 1st 2 hours. About 12:30pm I began suffering from food poisoning (probably from Pappasito's sausage breakfast tacos at Hobby Airport that morning.) After some violent illness and a couple hours of sleep, things were a lot better. By 4pm everything was fine and Tim and Elizabeth arrived from WY. We piled into cars, got to the convention center, only to find the festival sold out! Eric and I, somewhat frantically, spent the next 40 minutes buying tickets from passers-by, and actually came out OK. We all got in. Along with tickets we also forgot cameras and our pretzel necklaces. This being Eric and my's 10th year in a row we are allowed a few lapses!

The only Texas winners this year were St. Arnold Lawnmower in the Kolsch category (yeaa!) and 2 medals for Humperdinks in Dallas.

Read more about Beerfest HERE

For a list of winners go HERE

Tomorrow morning we head to Mesa Verde...

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