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We just opened up the gates to the 27th Great Taste of the Midwest.
so now about 6,000 people are wondering in to...
all the various beer tents we have set up here.
We're capped at six thousand people
there's another 600 or so brewers and another five hundred or so volunteers
Madison home brewers and tasters guild sponsors the Great Tastte of the Midwest.
And this actually is
to our knowledge the second longest-running Beer Fest in the
United States
next to Great American Beer Festival. We've been in a very unique situation
where
some of the the trends that you see in the brewing industry
pop up a at the great taste and
so this is kind of an event where Brewers have
an audience's this is right in their strike zone
of who they want to try weird and wacky stuff out on
because if it works here than they know they got something to go on
for example Bourbon Barrel beers I remember that well.
yeah I distinctly remember the first time I had
a bourbon barrel beer was here.
Flossmoor Station brought a an Imperial Stout was is in bourbon barrel
and the year after that we saw a lot of
the bourbon barrels pop up and then eventually one of the home brewers
turned it into a business he now delivers bourbon barrels
all over the country the Brewers
it's not surprising to me to see
these things happening here but what is surprising to me is
you know we have a breweriies from Nebraska and breweries from
Missouri and from kentucky and states that
don't have that long rich brewing tradition
but they're thriving there and that tells me a lot about where the craft
beer movement is going
we have way a more educated
beer consumers now because events like this I hope at least I hope that's our
contribution