Almost 2 years ago, over the course of a particular 4 hour period, I achieved Nirvana. Many since have heard me retell this experience and I know there’s a particular someone who doesn’t really appreciate it when I call it the greatest day of my life. That event was the Hops beer tasting and I have been waiting for it to come back ever since. However, September 2008 came and went and I never heard anything about the return of Hops. Then about 3 months ago on a beer run to Lee’s, I saw a flyer for the 3rd Annual Lee’s Beer Experience. It was to be on May 30th, 2009 at the Hilton and although I was scared that it could never live up to it’s Hops brethren, we were gonna give it a shot.

Well I’m here to say, the 3rd Annual Lee’s Beer Experience did not disappoint. It was exactly like Hops, perhaps because I think Lee’s had their hand in Hops to begin with, but on a larger scale. The thing was huge which is actually my main complaint about the event. There were just so many people there, you couldn’t move. It was difficult to get to the tables to taste the beers and it was almost impossible to get any food when they brought it out to one of the 4 food stations. People literally ran to the stations and if you weren’t waiting at the station, you had no chance to get anything to eat. I swear fights almost broke out for sandwiches.

Anyway, you can most certainly expect me at the 4th annual experience. Despite the amount of people there and the scarcity of food, the amount of beer was the reason you go to a beer festival. The beer was top notch and this year there was a major plus over the Hops festival. They realized the only thing better than getting served an abundance of cold beer is getting served a cold beer by smoking hot chicks in really tight shirts and short skirts. It was like a damn Mensa meeting in that place with the amount of brains these women had. They were all REAL smart. Regardless, this beer experience was good but not quite great. If they could somehow figure out how to fix the issues I discussed above, it may be able to reach greatness status. Despite everything though I still can’t wait for next year’s Experience.

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