The Brookston Family Blog

After the beer festival, the brewery hosts a dinner for the participating breweries and local beer family. Several local pigs are caught in the wild and cooked in banana leaves in coals buried in the ground for a full day. A delicious feast is then put out Saturday evening before the post-festival revelry begins in earnest. Many of the remaining kegs of beer can be found at campsites throughout the brewery grounds as everyone parties well into the night. Unfortunately, this year the rain began lightly during the feast. By nightfall, it was raining heavily, effectively dampening the festivities. With the addition of Mother's Day being the following morning, fewer revelers braved the elements well into wee hours as is usually the case. We huddled in our sleeping bag and fell asleep to the sound of rain beating on our tent. But it was still a great time.



In the Anderson Valley horse-drawn wagon next to the bonfire after we ate.



Porter kicks around a ball with some of the brewers after the festival.

Here's a Quicktime movie of Porter kicking a ballwith some of the brewers after the festival. The brewer he kicks the ball to at the end is Beach Chalet head brewer Aaron (or is that Erin - I can't remember). You can either download the movie to your desktop or just click on the link to play it in your web browser (assuming your web browser has the quicktime plug-in installed).