Since last year’s event was so awesome, I told more people about it. So along with Kev, I got Haile, Mark, Albert, Jay, and Owen to volunteer too. And it was fun, though not quite as awesome as last year.

I ended up at the Irondale table, a San Jose brewery. Their logo sorta looks like the back of dollar bill, and their slogan is “So rich, it’s like money in a bottle.” My table only had one beer, a barley wine.

When people came up and asked what I was pouring, those that were familiar with barley wine immediately responded with “oh, just a little bit” or just straight passed stating they did not like barley wine. The only other barley* wine I’ve had is at Moylan’s, and theirs is super hoppy, super bitter, and super strong (10%). I can’t drink that. But Irondale’s, I’d consider drinkable, and as the night went on, it grew on me. Like, when the bottle was almost empty, I’d pour the remains into my cup and pop open a new bottle.

*I keep typing barely instead of barley, and auto-correct doesn’t catch it since barely’s a valid word.

But my beer was not popular. We started with 3 cases (12 bottles a case), and at the end of the night, I repacked 2 full cases. Jay, Owen, & Kev had the popular beers. Jay had Shipyard’s Smashed Pumpkin, which was like drinking a pumpkin pie. It was really good, and it didn’t even taste like it was 9%.

Owen was serving my favorite beer of the night. First off, the name of the brewery is Ass Kisser. Totally. Awesome. Their logo is a donkey with lipsticks marks on it’s back end. They had 3 different beers, but the hands down favorite by all was the Vanilla Pale Ale. It tasted like an A&W root beer float. So sweet, it didn’t even taste like a beer. This one was the 1st to run out.

I said it wasn’t quite as awesome as last year, because last year, Kev and I walked out with 2 full cases of beer, and it could’ve been more if I had parked closer. This year, there were more of us, so naturally I thought we’d come out with way more beer. But no, this year they were more strict and only let us take 2 6-packs each. Still better than nothing, but not as much as last year. But Mark & Albert grabbed a whole bunch of beer from the booth they working at, Maui Brewing Co., and snuck them out the side exits when the event ended and there was a big crowd at the front entrance/exit. Maybe we’ll try that next year.

But what mattered the most was that we all had a good time. In my opinion, I think I had more fun volunteering & pouring beer than I would’ve had if I had paid to get in and drink hella. If I was drinking the whole time, I would’ve been done 2 hours in (event was 4-5 hours). At least with volunteering, you’re active the whole time pouring beer & talking to hella different people, as well as drinking every now & then. We’re definitely going to make this a yearly event, as long as OneBrick keeps on doing it.

Pics!
Albert & Mark at the Maui Brewing table

Haile at the Mike's Hard Lemonade table

Kev & Owen at the Ass Kisser table

Me at the Irondale table. Soo kawawa.....no one liked my beer, had soo many left at the end.

Me & Jay. Say what?!

My haul this year. Not nearly as much as last year, but it was still cool. And I got a 49ers Coors Light pint glass.