Father's day happened to be one of the rare sunny days here in the Pacific Northwest. And it was a great day for one of the biggest Microbrew festivals in this part of the country.

I'm still putting together my tasting notes, and will post them later.

In the meantime, I wanted to post some of the event photos.

I don't know how many attended on Sunday, but I was told that 7,000 were there the day before.

The line to get in:


A shot of the grounds:


I was wearing my Stillwater Black Watch and a cream button down shirt, with the sleeves rolled up (no photos, sorry!) As I walked up to sample my first ale, the man at the got a grin on his face and just started shaking his head. When I got closer he said, "Sheer balls, man. Sheer balls."
I told him "Yes, but only to keep cool." It took him a couple beats, but he got it.

There were fewer kilties than prevoius years, which disappointed me. The vast majority of what I saw was Utilikilts:








Then there was one that seemed to qualify as a Kilt Don't for a variety of reasons:

I couldn't tell if he had a U.K. on backwards (which I would think would be counterintuitive) or if it was just how it was manufactured. I was going to mention it to him, but he seemed to be uncomfortable wearing it anyway, and I didn't want to give him a reason to take it out on me...Besides, he was bigger than me...