Beer Me! Blog, The: Omaha Summer Arts Festival
I dropped off my beer for the Omaha Summer Arts Festival Friday afternoon and went back home. When Paris and Chris and I arrived for our shift on Saturday morning, we found that half of the big tent was gone, having been torn up by Friday night’s storm. The guys from Empyrean were re-setting-up the beer coolers, which had blown over the night before. They said they started pouring beer at 4:00 Friday afternoon, and by 5:30 the police came around and told everybody to get inside.
The emergency backup Nebraska Craft Brewers Association beer tent at the 2008 Omaha Summer Arts Festival
Saturday was still breezy, but nothing like Friday night, and Sunday was a very nice day.
When it was over, I had gone through just about all of the Stüvenbräu Maibock I had brought (31 gallons), and virtually none of the Tin Lizzie Hefeweizen. I attribute this to the fact that the Hefeweizen was old, sour, nasty, and just generally totally fucking awful. Now that I have yeast, I’ll dump what’s left at the pub and brew a new batch on Monday.
