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Gathering my supplies before the Bradenton Beer Festival on Feb. 18. The thing in the upper right is the invaluable Brew Caddy. I ended up not using the Sony camera. Instead, I took all my pictures with my iPhone and sent them out via Twitter. It was my first time doing that and it was awesome.
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The line to buy tickets at the fest. The prepaid line was to the left and much shorter. Glad I got my ticket in advance.
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Got my glass. Next: Fill it with beer.
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Shanell Ryan and Little Giant Brewery brewmaster Michael Wagner serve his beers at the Bradenton Beer Festival Feb. 18 in downtown Bradenton.
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Blunt Trauma IPA from Little Giant Brewery. Nicely bitter.
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The Stinky Bunz truck.
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Fried tofu, left, and chili beef bun wraps from Stinky Bunz. Note the little after-meal mint that says I LOVE YOU.
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The Ritter's This N That Mini Donats truck.
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A dozen mini doughnuts in cinnamon and powered sugar from Ritter's This N That.
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Sarasota Brewing Co.'s India Pale Ale. Citrus and floral hop flavors.
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The World of Beer crew pouring Swamp Head beers.
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Swamp Head's Catherine's Inspiration imperial stout. Chocolatey.
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Dogs of all sizes were at the festival. Perhaps I should have brought the Beer Beagle?
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Petition, just one of several bands at the festival.
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Flying Sliders food truck.
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Winter Special from the Sarasota Brewing Co. Brewed with rosemary, it was rich and herbal and deceivingly strong.
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Jimmy Meatballs food truck.
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No one knew which beer was in this cask-conditioned firkin. Do you? It was a sour ale. My guess is something from Cigar City Brewing.
UPDATE: Jon-Paul Taylor with the Bradenton Beer Festival says it was a treatment of Florida Beer's Swamp Ape IPA.
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Overlord Black IPA from Little Giant Brewery had nice chocolate malt notes in addition to the hops.
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The crew from the Shamrock Pub. Don't forget to enter their Limerick contest and win a trip to Asheville, N.C.!
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So many flavors of frozen pops from Pop Craft.
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The menu from Stinky Bunz.
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Stuffed Burgers food truck.
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Two Asians & a Grill food truck.
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Jon-Paul
Monday, February 20, 2012 at 10:33 pm
Haha. This was a cask left over from the Cask Beer Festival in July. It was from Florida Beer Co. It was a treated Swamp Ape Beer. Half the people liked it, the other hated it.
Tom
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 10:33 am
Was it supposed to be a sour? Or was it a Swamp Ape gone even badder?
Alan Shaw
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Tom, excellent question; I hope it was sour on purpose!
I never would have guessed it was Swamp Ape. Thanks for answering that!