Grateful Gooner

Newark Food and Brew Festival

// July 25th, 2005 // Adventure

“Beer, Beer, Beer, I’m going for a beer. Beer, beer, beer, I’m going for a beer. I like drinking beer. Lovely, lovely, beer.”

On Saturday afternoon, I got drunk as hell with Brian and Robert, all thanks to the City Of Newark’s 2nd Annual Food and Brew Festival.

All along Main St, different restraunts and bars were offering samples of various microbrews from around the country.

We went to Iron Hill, Home Grown, La Cucina di Napoli, and Cafe Gelato.

Iron Hill charged $8.00 for eight 6oz samples. The sampler included four of their beers, two from Ommegang and two from Victory.

At Home Grown, they had Magic Hat and Sierra Nevada. It was five bucks for three 8oz samples of Magic Hat. They had t-shirts, but the biggest size was “L”. I was able to get a pint glass instead, but the Magic Hat rep wouldn’t give me two (sorry Steve).

Third stop was La Cucina di Napoli, where they were giving out shot glass-sized samples of three Fordhams and three Penns. The three of us had one shot of each, and that only cost us a three dollar tip.

Finally, we went to Cafe Gelato, where they had Dogfish Head. I don’t even know how much the samples were, because Brian treated us to that. I can’t even remember what beers they had, just that there were three 8oz glasses, the beer was good, and the waitress was flirting with me.

All in all, a good time.