beer fest recap

So I spent Friday and Saturday nights at the Belgrade Beer Festival. It was the nice rather small, rather calm beer festivals I used to attend in Portland on steriods (in every way except the number of beers represented).

The major breweries had huge booths with things like 15 foot tall inflated beer cans and mock town squares and huge screens showing ads. And there was a big stage with music, not random street performers or marching bands wandering through the place. And so many people that it was hard to walk around at times.

The most bizarre aspect of it was that there were carnival rides. Drunk people + a tilt-a-whirl is not good. I feel bad for the clean up crew.

At one point on Saturday night, my friend G, an American, and his Bosnian girlfriend and I were sitting at a table half-way between the live music stage and the carnival. The sounds of both were loud enough to prevent conversation. There were flashing lights and screens in most directions and crowds of people all around.

G turned to me and yelled, 'this is what I hate about America.'