It was extremely hot! So it was nice that they provided water throughout the event. IT would have been awesome if there was some sort of misting fans to help! But all in all the event was great!

I enjoyed myself but it was overcrowded creating limited space to grab some shade and long beer lines.

Great music and plenty of beer for all. One of the best beer festivals I've been to yet.

Not at all what I was expecting. I was excited for the event and expected it to be a day of sampling many delicious beers from an organized group of vendors and attended by a more refined clientele. Instead, it was a woefully disorganized event, which, in essence, was a free-for-all.

The first reg flag was the cups provided to patrons, which were plastic and far too large for sampling (I never thought I would say that a cup of beer was TOO LARGE). A true tasting of beers would provide smaller units made of glass for patrons to experience more fully the flavor of the beers and to be able to sample a larger volume of beers.

Next, the event was embarrassingly disorganized. What beer would you expected to be served under the Leinenkugel's tent?......well, you'd be wrong. After standing in a long line for almost 8 minutes, I learned that Leinenkugel's was being served on the other side of the beer truck, under the Sierra Nevada tent (...I was able to get an Anchor Summer Beer, which softened the blow). It also seemed that far fewer vendors attended the event that were advertised. I could not find Abita, Ommegang, Mother Earth, or any local breweries.

The venue itself is partially responsible for the disappointing display. The sloping lawn of the Masquerade makes it difficult to set up vendors and efficiently utilize space. There were shade tents set up directly in front of vendors making it very difficult to make it to certain vendors because patrons were sheltering themselves from the sunlight. This is the 2nd sub-standard event I've attended at the Masquerade (the first being St. Patrick's Day) and I will never find myself going back there for any outdoor events again.

Finally, I found myself annoyed by many attendees of the event. While, I did meet a few very interesting individuals, the places seemed overwrought with fools who found it acceptable to leave their homes wearing designer wife-beaters and taco costumes (it's not Halloween, buddy), to play frisbee in the middle of moving crowds and to whack each other in the testicles for sport. Such a low brau audience is not what I expect to encounter when attending a beer festival. I suppose there were no frat parties going on that day.

What a great time! Will be attending the next one for sure!