Happy Monday and October friends! One of the things I love about living in Orlando is there is no shortage of things to do. Of course most of these things can be extremely touristy or expensive but we do have a lot of "local" festivals that we love to check out as well and this weekend happened to be one of them, the Deland Bacon & Brew Fest. A few months ago you might remember that my friend who own's a brewery in Melbourne put on his own bacon and beer fest so if say bacon and beer there's a 90% chance I'll be there even on a rainy, gross day like it was on Saturday.
Not being biased or anything but my friends bacon and beer bash was executed MUCH better than this festival. In fact, with the exception of the band and the bacon (and especially the deep fried bacon), this festival was actually incredibly disappointing. We purchased the sampling pass which allowed us to get 10 samples from the 125 different craft beer and winery vendors at the event. Sounds like a lot, right? Wrong. The festival started at 1 pm, we got there around 2-2:30 pm and by the time we got there more than half the vendors we're already out of beer. We were only actually able to get samples from 4 different vendors and the lines for those vendors were incredibly long. Luckily Goose Island came prepared and they had plenty of beer to sample so just to use up our tickets since they were not offering refunds (and actually threatened to arrest people for complaining or asking for a refund) we went back to the Goose Island tent 3 times. All in all, it was fun getting to hang out with friends and walk around but I won't be going back. But hey, not everything can be executed great, right? You live and learn! Hope everyone has a fantastic week!
*Linking up with Biana*
