So this Saturday I took some time to do some community service and do some volunteering.... at the East Atlanta Beer Festival! Man... that had to be one of the better decisions of my life!
To give a quick history, the EABF (http://www.eastatlantabeerfest.com) is an annual festival (now 7 years old) in the awesome neighborhood of East Atlanta Village. People from all over (seriously, I met people who came from 2 hours away, if not more!) congregate in EAV to enjoy a beautiful day and LOTS of beer - 130+ breweries! There is also music, food, and lots of schwag.
The great thing about it for me was being around so many beer-loving individuals. It was commonplace for me to overhear conversations about hop varietals or comparisons between the finish of one brown ale to the next; it was truly a beer-lover's heaven.
The other great thing, is that as a volunteer, I got in free and could still enjoy all of the delicious beers I wanted (and that I did, no doubt about that!). Moreso, volunteering was quite fun. I worked at the entry gate during the second shift (3-6PM) with a friend of mine, where we counted people entering and also handed out replacement tasting cups. That was great, because we started having people (none of whom were sober) tell us how they broke their cups and some stories were funny as hell. My favorite may have been the girl who had the cup in her cleavage, and was then "forced" to chest bump her best friend, thereby smashing said cleavage cup. The story was not all that amazing, though it helped that she was very, very attractive and the way it was told and her insistence on it not being her fault was just hilarious.
So, that said, to all my fellow EABFers... Thanks for a great time and see y'all next year!
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