San Diego Brewers Guild Festival

This year (2014) was my first time attending this festival. I’m making it Unilocal official by declaring that I’m going to be attending this event annually!
Parking:
Don’t drive! I don’t recommend anyone planning to be DD to go or for you to have a DD. It’s so much fun since this is an all you can drink, i mean… try., event to not have to worry about driving. Use Über, Lyft, or taxi it like us! or get dropped off if you have an awesome friend like that.
But… if you did insist on bringing a car, the parking lots nearby ranged from $ 10 — $ 13 to park for 8 hours+ I believe. It cost the four of us $ 25 to get to the festival from La Jolla.
Entry:
We got there at 2, when it started, and waited in line for about 20 minutes to get in. It was smooth getting in. We were given plastic cups though because the Port Authorities didn’t want the festival to hand out glass cups to soon-​to-​be drunkies. But, to be honest, the «glass» cups given to us after the festival were verrrrrrry disappointing.
BEEEEEERS:
Oh man. I was expecting the amount of beer options there were here. San Diego has one of the most microbreweries in the nation. I wish they had more small buckets or water station though so you can cleanse your cup and your palette.
Food:
Please get more food! I know we’re here to drink beer but I would’ve been so down to buy snacks, pretzels, fooood, or something! We only saw 5 — 6 food option, and one taco place sold out an hour before closing :(
Atmosphere:
So awesome! We met so many nice people. I had no expectations on what kind of crowd this festival will attract. This is definitely not the college, let’s get shit-​faced type of atmosphere, which is awesomeeeeee!
Price:
Around $ 40 for 3 hours of all the beers you can try. GREAT :) Also, there weren’t very long lines in any of the tables so don’t worry about wasting your time with that!
Venue:
The weather was perfect which made the venue even MORE perfect. It is right by the water and there’s a mixture of indoor and outdoor spaces. It is so spacious that you won’t feel like people are constantly bumping it to you so don’t worry if you think you’ll get cluster-​phobic.
Come again?
YES… obviously!
TIP:
Make pretzel necklaces! Look it up on google. It is such a GENIUS idea that I am going to be so pumped with my huge tasty pretzel necklace next year.