On August 12th, I made it to The Bistro 9th Annual IPA Festival along with a couple of good buddies of mine, Andy & Nathan. The Bistro isn’t a big space so they commandeered half the street to fit in the 50+ IPA’s they had on tap. Even then it was pretty crowded as you can see.
It’s popularity was entirely deserved though as they had a hella lot of tasty beer. Teaming up the three of us made about half way through the list of beers, each of them a new favourite. Even though every beer was an IPA there was remarkable diversity of flavours. It must have been difficult work for the judges attempting to clear the palettes after every hop-bomb was dropped on their taste buds. Not that I feel bad for them of course.
After roughly 25 different IPA’s we took a look at the queue to buy more tickets in order to keep going and decided what we really wanted was to sit down somewhere & drink beers by the pint, not the 6oz taster. So off we headed to our next destination…