{"id":108,"date":"2008-08-23T19:40:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T00:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-09-12T19:48:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T00:48:25","slug":"southern-brewers-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Southern Brewers Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Beer festival season peaks in the southeast in September and October but there’s a few outliers.\u00a0\u00a0 Chattanooga’s Southern Brewers Festival is one of those.\u00a0 It’s held in August when it is roughly 150 degrees in Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

\"Melanie,<\/p>\n

It’s a token-based beer festival, which means you have to buy a token for each beer.\u00a0 A token costs $3 so a beer isn’t really a trial size which discourages too much experimentation (only one of our beers ended up in the Tennessee River).\u00a0 Most of the festival is up along the edge of the city, but the river is more scenic so that’s what we have in the picture.\u00a0 A nice thing about this festival is that it runs for 11 hours!\u00a0 So, we arrived in Chattanooga, checked into a downtown hotel and came to the festival for several hours.\u00a0 In the afternoon we went back and took a nap and then came back for another round.<\/p>\n

\"Krystals\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As beer festivals go, the entertainment was pretty good.\u00a0 In the afternoon things were pretty laid back.\u00a0 There was a qualifying round for the Krystals World hamburger eating championships.\u00a0 If you’ve ever seen any competitive eating on TV with that annoying announcer in the carnie hat, let me just say he’s 10 times more annoying in person.\u00a0\u00a0 Incidentally, one has to eat 51 Krystals in 10 minutes in order to win a giant trophy.\u00a0\u00a0 On the plus side, they handed out the uneaten Krystals afterwards and we can report that after several beers, Krystals actually taste pretty darn good.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beer festival season peaks in the southeast in September and October but there’s a few outliers.\u00a0\u00a0 Chattanooga’s Southern Brewers Festival is one of those.\u00a0 It’s held in August when it is roughly 150 degrees in Chattanooga. It’s a token-based beer festival, which means you have to buy a token for each beer.\u00a0 A token costs … Continue reading Southern Brewers Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}