The first MiniFest was a beer fest unlike any other‏

The weather was absolutely perfect on the patio Saturday at Cazuela’s for the first ABQBeer.com MiniFest. The sky was overcast, but only delivered brief and minimal sprinkles on occasion. My good friend and hop-centric beer tasting companion Paulette and I pulled up to Cazuela’s just about a half hour after the general admission start time.

As tends to happen with new festivals, there were a few little issues. I was told ahead of time that one of the breweries scheduled to attend (Kaktus) had to pull out. At such a small festival, that could be kind of a big deal. But the other four breweries poured on. Another issue gave us a shaky first impression. We parked and walked into Cazuela’s. But it turned out that they wanted everyone to park in a separate lot and enter west of the main building. We were told we actually had to leave Cazuela’s, even though it was on their patio that connects to the restaurant, move our car to that other lo

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