Ice Cream Beer Float Salida, CO Beerfest
July 5, 2008 on 4:50 pm | In Colorado, Travel | No CommentsThe beer connoisseurs of our party had a fun afternoon to themselves today at the 12th Annual Colorado Brewer’s Rendezvous Beer Festival in Salida Colorado. There were representatives from 35 different Colorado Breweries (Boulder Beer, San Luis Valley Brewing Company of Alamosa, TBC Trinidad Brewing Company, Kannah Creek Brewing Company of Grand Junction, Carver Brewing Co of Durango, Rockyard American Grill & Brewing Company of Castle Rock, and Breckenridge Brewery just to name a few) and one from New Mexico.
The admission was $20/person which included a nice souvenir glass. Once inside, the lines moved pretty quickly, and that even extended to the porta potty lines which had wait times of less than two minutes-that’s pretty darn good considering the crowd.
And the winner of the most unusual drink at the beer festival? Our connoisseurs felt that would have to be the Stout ice cream beer float-and the verdict? -”Not too bad.” This well organized event made for a loud and happy crowd.
Earlier in the day, we stopped at the Salida Farmer’s Market. I treated myself to a 10 minute deep tissue chair massage for $10, which relieved my soreness from overdoing it yesterday in sports for several hours. I also tried a piece of home made fresh organic spinach quiche that was quite good. Chris bought some raw cheese to try.
The other day I was talking to a guy who said he’s a self employed writer. He gets paid to write commercial appraisals. Mom was saying there weren’t that many good writer’s out there and he agreed, but added that his daughter was a good writer and I was thinking, “here we go again,” in my head-there seems to be a “writer” in just about every family. But few who do their own thing, he said, because you have to be incredibly talented, which he is not. He said you have to find something you love or life sucks…but then he was also contradicting that because it also has to be something of value to others-so just doing what you love isn’t enough-you have to throw being a people pleaser into the mix. Rules rules rules!!!
