One of the best things to start popping up in the last couple years is a beer event called Firkin Fest. On March 20th, the Happy Gnome in St. Paul put on this annual event. I was dumb enough not to buy tickets but lucky enough to have a friend named Jessie who works for Tyranena. She told me, my friend Travis and my brother-in-law Nick to meet her down there and she would get us in. We ended up working the event.

For someone like me, this was awesome. Free beer and talking to people? For the next 4+ hours I walked around drinking beer and talking to people in the industry and outside the industry. My brother-in-law and buddy will tell you I didn’t really work that much, which is true. But PR is PR, whether I was talking to Jon from Stub and Herbs or Mark (a customer at Princeton’s).

Firkin Friends

Dark Horse, Surly, Tyranena, Left Hand, Liftbridge…the list goes on of breweries represented there. The beers these breweries were putting forth were equally as amazing. This is such a great way to sample beers you have never had. Not to mention, enjoy the company around you. There was a lot of beer flowing, which translates into a lot of random conversations with people you have never met.

All-in-all, it was a good day, plus no hangover the next day. Weird.
~ Bill