ocTOVARfest

My beer club has only a few rules:

1) we don't talk about beer club

wait... thats my fight club- another post for that one. My beer club doesn't really have rules per se as much as guiding principles:

guiding principle 1) Look for and pursue beer drinking opportunities in Venezuela.

Imagine my joy when the following came together: the town of Colonia Tovar was hosting an Oktoberfest, There was a posada with rooms, MSR found some killer beer socks, and Fernando helped design and make killer t-shirts! Oh and it was hosted by Tovar brewery- #1 and #2 respectively.

We arrived at the Don Eliso Posada after the drive up from Caracas. It had the feeling of a college road trip- not that the place was shabby, far from it, just that there were three bros and one bed. No hay problema- it was a big bed.

After an excellent dinner we mad our way to the beer tent and were presented with the big decision: what size cup to buy. Beer tickets were 40 b's each and you could go with:

1) small plastic cup- free- one ticket to fill

2)slender tovar glass- 600 b's- 1 ticket to fill

3) small mug-1000 b's- 2 tickets to fill

4) grand daddy mug- 1500b,s- 4 tickets to fill

We each made our calculations, factoring in how often we would need to go to get refills vs trips to the bathroom, etc etc. Then it was time to drink.

Noah chose wisely

Prost! from the ECA crew.

and the beer? it was tasty, there were even a few new brands we had never heard of (imagine!). Nadjib liked Benitz so much he drove their beer truck home

A fantastic weekend with great friends. Click here for more pictures of beer socks and other shenanigans from fino cambur.