[The] Great Korean Beer Festival 2015, Fall Event
Review on the previous beer festival [HERE]
Back in 2013, when we had just started out
on FanatiKorea, the craft beer scene in Seoul was just starting to bud out. The
Craftworks (yeah, I know), the Magpies and the Booths were just among the
handful of names that would excite us into going to their pub openings and more
importantly, to those craft beer festivals so small that homebrewers had
to fill in the void left out by..well, microbreweries who didn’t even want to showcase their beers.
Fast forward to 2015, and things have
really, really changed. The options and the style have both branched out and
dare I say, we are possibly witnessing history in the making here; in craft
beer terms that is. Companies like Busan-based Galmegi and Seoul centered Hand
& Malt Brewing and Itewon Brewing Company together with some serious
brewing from Craftbros and Maloney’s (brewed at H&M facility) have helped
diversify what was a pretty stale pilsner, pale ale and stout lineup brewing.
The Great Korean Beer Festival, which
starts out today, hopes to showcase just that (the poster only shows a handful
of Korean breweries but there should be more). What I like is the frequency at
which these festivals are starting to pop out. Usually, we would have to wait
for like what? Every six months? Major event every year or so? It’s really
exciting that organizers have finally come to terms that beer does make good
money and there is a significantly large crowd willing to spend large amount of
their graduate school research funding on beers.
Oh..is it just me?
Anyways, the festival, for the very first
time, will be a FOUR day event extending from 1pm-10pm (!!) removing any
absurdities of closing down the festival at 6pm. I kinda had to resort to a South
African restaurant drinking South African lagers last time to maintain my
shitfaced face till midnight.
Happy drinking guys!
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