What a fun weekend! We serve Karl Strauss beer on draft at First Class and Jacob has always had a great relationship with our sales rep. We've had dinner and drinks comped on a date night at the Karl Strauss restaurant, and when our friend Jimmy (who was also a manager at FCP) was moving out of the country, our sales rep comped all the beer 8 of us could drink at Jimmy's going away party. Needless to say, they hook it up for us and it is so appreciated!
Saturday was Karl Strauss' 8th Annual Beach to Brewery event. Jacob first told me about this about a month ago and it didn't even cross my mind to go. I'm not a big beer drinker in the first place, but being pregnant doesn't really give me that option anyway! Jacob brought up the idea again on Friday when our sales rep dropped off 2 free tickets to the event. I was sold when Jacob mentioned a tour of the brewery and 4 local bands. We invited our best pal, Kevin (who Karl Strauss also hooked up with a free ticket!) and we made the trek down to San Diego for the afternoon.
When you walk in, you get a commemorative cup and a wristband with 5 tabs on it. Each tab was good for a taster of one of the 22 beers Karl Strauss had on draft. First off, tasters are usually about 3 oz pours... they were filling the commemorative cups halfway full! If you happened to finish your 5 tasters and had room for more, you could purchase another wristband worth 5 tasters for $10 or you could buy drink tickets for $5 that got you a full glass of beer. Kevin made the mistake of buying full glass tickets, because again, Jacob continued to get hooked up. Right when he walked in, he saw one of his beer reps who gave him 2 tickets for full cups of beer. Then we ran into the tech guy who installs and maintains the beer lines in our restaurant, he gave the guys two full pours, as well! As you can tell, Jake and Kevin were having a pretty good time :)
The food wasn't bad (Wahoo's was there with chicken or fish tacos and burritos, and there was a pizza place which we probably put out of business with the amount of slices we consumed!) and the music was about the same. It's always cool to hear local bands and despite how loud it was, they sounded pretty good.
Four hours into it, we decided to take the brewery tour. The brewery was way smaller than I would have ever imagined and the tour guide didn't use lamen's terms for describing the brewing process, so I was pretty disappointed. It was cool to see where all our beer for the restaurant comes from, though! After the tour, we hit the merch booth and the boys got sweatshirts, a hat, and a bottle opener. We are Karl fans :) We walked at least half a mile back to my car and then drove home. It was a long and tiring day for this preggo girl, but it was a really fun event! I always love spending time with Jacob and Kevin and they kept me entertained the whole day! We finished off the night at Island's for dinner and dessert that Kevin treated us to. Turned out to be a great day!
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