Kennett Square Festival 2021


The 24th edition of this festival took place on Saturday October 2. I went with my friend Mike, who had just moved to nearby Chadds Ford. His wife Jinny dropped us at the venue, where there were thousands of people in line for the sold-out event. There were aready a lot of people inside for the connoisseur tasting, which started at noon. We were there for general admission, which started at 1:30. There were more than 70 breweries. We sampled:

  1. Burlington Beer Company It's Complicated Being a Wizard
  2. SingleCut Beersmiths Full-Stack
  3. SingleCut Beersmiths Frequency
  4. Tonewood DDH Fuego
  5. Braeloch Angry Russian
  6. Midnight Oil Impulse IPA
  7. Evil Genius Stacy's Mom
  8. Be Here Now Watercrest
  9. Free Will Sing Me Back Home
  10. Free Will Olly
  11. West Chester Party Flavor
  12. Bellefonte EZE
  13. Zeroday Wallet Phone Keys
  14. Troegs Hop Cyclone
  15. Wilmington Brew Works Collegiate Brunch
  16. Brothers Kershner Wheedle
  17. Brothers Kershner Johann
  18. 2SP Up, Up & Away
  19. Workhorse New England IPA
  20. Workhorse Lagerversary
  21. Sly Fox Haze Fix
  22. Ship Bottom Swell Dorado IPA
  23. Stone Imperial Star Fawker
  24. Stone Hazy IPA
  25. Hidden River Uttu (can)
  26. Suburban Helium Wheels
  27. Round Guys Mothership Connection
  28. Ever Grain Me Wooly Jumper
  29. Dew Point Holy Mountain
  30. Mainstay Gratuitous Haze
  31. Winding Path Hazeway
  32. Winding Path Hibiscus Lime
  33. Iron Hill Philly Phavorite
  34. Wicked Weed Pernicious IPA
  35. Stolen Sun JZ's Hay-Z
  36. Neshaminy Creek Fearless Pale Ale
  37. Neshaminy Creek Creekfestbier
  38. Half Acre Burl
  39. Logyard Adventure Sidekick
  40. Flying Fish Go Birds
  41. Founders Unraveled IPA
  42. Autumn Arch Arrows of Light (can)
  43. Autumn Arch Coffin Motif (can)
  44. Conshohocken Type A
  45. Human Robot Dreams of Orgonon
  46. Modern Times Dungeon Map
  47. Modern Times Cosmic Rays
  48. Modern Times Brain Vacation
  49. Modern Times Devil's Teeth
  50. Ten 7 Pigeon Milkiatto
  51. Big Oyster Conquest Road
  52. Big Oyster Slam!
  53. Double Nickel The Death of the Pool Noodle
  54. Dressler Estate Rain Watcher
  55. Hidden River Vast
  56. Autumn Arch C* (bottle)

There was a live band, and Mike's friend Frank was the drummer.

L to R: Me, Mike, Frank.

I don't remember anything after leaving the festival, but apparantly we walked to nearby Braeloch Brewing to wait for Jinny to pick us up. I sat in a comfortable chair and, like I've done so many times after drinking, dozed off.