Heading to Snallygaster? Here’s What You Should Know and Drink

Thanks to Chris Van Orden for his hefty contributions to this piece.

In case you somehow haven’t heard, Snallygaster returns tomorrow. The Neighborhood Restaurant Group’s massive beer festival/event/spectacular will feature over 300 beers and way more than 300 attendees. You can find info on tickets, an extensive FAQ, and all that on their website. We’re not going to reinvent the wheel. What we are going to do is say holy shit this beer list is intimidatingly impressive and immense. If you thought narrowing down what you want to drink at ChurchKey is time-consuming, this is kind of like that…times 6.5.

We were going to power rank all of the beers at Snallygaster for your #content-consuming amusement, but that path was fraught with danger. Where do you put a beer like Allagash White, which is a top class example of a witbier but also widely available? It probably winds up somewhere in the mid-to-low 200s because there are so many beers you can’t get everywhere else that will be at Sna