{"id":20511,"date":"2016-05-23T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=20511"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:11:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:11:04","slug":"beer-under-glass-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/beer-under-glass-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Under Glass 2016: The One Where It Was Finally Nice Out"},"content":{"rendered":"
Turmeric. Pineapple. Mushrooms. Sage. Orange peel. Smoke. There was lots of fruit,\u00a0crazy flavors\u00a0and finally, plenty\u00a0of sun at Beer Under Glass 2016.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Even with all the dozens of breweries and hundreds of beers at this year’s event, when I think about Beer Under Glass 2016, I keep coming back to the weather. And so did basically everyone else I talked to, too.<\/p>\n
“Isn’t this great?”<\/p>\n
“Finally, right?”<\/p>\n
“Remember when everyone had to wear bags on their feet?”<\/p>\n
“It’s just perfect out.”<\/p>\n
Of course drinking beer outside is going to feel better, look better, be better when it’s nicer out to do so. Common sense, yes — but after a few years of being beaten down by Mother Nature, a sky free of clouds and a complete lack of precipitation combined to make for a damn fine night of beer drinking.<\/p>\n
There was always a certain sense of grit-tooth cameraderie in previous years — a kind of “well, we’re all in this together” sort of thing while drinking beer with freezing hands and numbed feet — but I’m happy to have that replaced with a crowd that’s got a bouncy spirit, a more boisterous sound, a generally more upbeat and smiley bunch of folks to have surrounded myself with.<\/p>\n
It was a pretty good night, and I found a few beers I quite enjoyed. Let’s check ’em out.<\/p>\n