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 A few years ago I may have responded to the topic of this month’s Session, hosted by the English version of Birraire, in a different way. But now festivals are something that don’t excite me anymore. Crowds and queuing aren’t very much my thing, and I don’t like the sort of consumerism they promote, especially the bigger ones that brag about having hundreds, if not thousands of different beers. It’s not that I have something against them, mind you, like with romantic films, I’m simply not their audience.
Those very, very few that I attend, I like them more for the atmosphere and the people I know I’ll find there than for the beers; after all, good, interesting beers is something I can find any day, without hardly any effort. In other words, a festival is to me not much more than a glorified beer garden. This is, by the way, the reason why I adamantly refuse to pay an admission ticket for a festival, be it overt or covert. Pubs and beer gardens won’t charge me a fee for the privilege of b … |
Source: Beer Philosopher
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