UnTapped beer festival at BOA is a disaster

[Cookie Lyon]

2 hours ago, KSpan said:

In all seriousness, why? Perhaps this is a meaningful activity within their relationship, or the day itself has some significance? Point being that nothing is known about these people so I don't get the judgment here.

On topic, sounds like quite the cluster.

Seems to me that you're blowing what I said out of proportion. I just think proposing to someone at a beer festival is tacky. I don't have to know them or anything about them to form an opinion about what I think about the proposal. More power to them though and I hope they live happily ever after.

[LinvilleGorge]

Honestly, I can't imagine anything I give fewer fugs about than how complete strangers orchestrate their marriage proposals. Well, maybe celebrity gossip but it's kind of along these same lines. Basically just people failing to mind their own damn business.

[Cookie Lyon]

Gretchen seemed to enjoy the beer festival. I wonder if she's related to Bill Voth? 

[Snake]

1 hour ago, Paintballr said:

Couple things I could see go wrong with this as I didn’t go...but didn’t go because of this. 

Its at BoA stadium. Cool idea in practice, but anyone bitching about not being able to bring a purse etc when you’ve never been able to bring it to the stadium for games is stupidity on their own part. The idea of the stadium is nice as it’s large, but only utilizing the actual field is bad. You have Lower and upper concourses that weren’t used. I wonder why? You can’t say that traffic or flow would cause that because I was there for the draft party and it was not efficient having one way up and down on the field. 

NC has some ass backwards alcohol laws. Even though this is a “craft” beer festival, some of these breweries are distributed by other companies and those companies actually do these events for the brewery. Wicked Weed, Sierra Nevada, Devils Backbone, AMB, Catawba, Green Man etc are all distributes by Adams, Empire, and other companies. If I want my beer poured by guys or women who don’t know poo about their product and solely are hired off looks, I don’t want to try it. Plus, the brewery isn’t really getting anything from this, they are the middle man. If you truly want to support the brewery go directly there. All that is caused by the laws we have where if they distribute a certain amount, a 3rd party company has to do it for them. Although I’m not the biggest fans of OMB and NoDa, I appreciate them wanting to keep that control. 

Which leads to the other issues. Untapped has to work through those distribution companies for this event, not the brewery (unless it’s a small brewery) no matter if untapped has everything planned, if that company (Empire or Adams etc) shows up late, doesn’t bring enough kegs, doesn’t setup fast enough etc. untapped gets the flack not the distribution company. 

Now, Untapped fuged up by not ordering enough cups. That’s totally their marketing team and would expect people to lose their job come Monday. They legally can’t give you normal pours for $50. It has to be a certain oz cup or less to prevent “bros” from getting completely trashed in the first hour. Anyone expecting a bigger cup are dumb. 

This beer festival would have been great 10 years ago with our breweries first starting and needing advertising, but it’s 2019. The market is huge, and there are no benefits for small companies to do events like this when the big dogs who use distributors will get first dibs. 

 

A mouth wash sized cup is ridiculous. You stop bros by cutting them off like any bar does. It's actually quite easy. 

[Wolfpredator]

I've been to one beer festival in my life ( think it was $45, in Greenville SC at the what used to be Bilo Center ).  Will never in my life go to another one....was a complete waste of money.  Sounds like my experience was way better than what people got at this one but I honestly only got to try like 10 or so beers.  Id much rather just go into a bar with their own micro brews and just try glasses at a time.  Up here in Washington state they are everywhere.  

[Paintballr]

33 minutes ago, Snake said:

A mouth wash sized cup is ridiculous. You stop bros by cutting them off like any bar does. It's actually quite easy. 

It’s not that simple. Ever go to a wine tasting? The state regulates what serving you are allowed to serve for a “tasting” 

since this was a festival you paid a flat rate for, you are paying for a “tasting” which regulates it to be I believe less than a 4oz pour. If they didn’t charge a flat rate and designate it as a tasting, each vendor would have had to charge for each beer which then let’s you get 16oz pours. I hope people didn’t think if they paid $50 or more they would get unlimited 16oz pours 

[KSpan]

1 hour ago, Cookie Lyon said:

Seems to me that you're blowing what I said out of proportion. I just think proposing to someone at a beer festival is tacky. I don't have to know them or anything about them to form an opinion about what I think about the proposal. More power to them though and I hope they live happily ever after.

I didn't blow anything out of proportion. You said tacky and I asked why (which is still unclear) and then gave some counterpoint examples of why the day might be significant to them. I was just curious.

[Jim Harbaugh]

So this festival was as well run as the Panthers are. Surprising.

[LinvilleGorge]

7 minutes ago, KSpan said:

I didn't blow anything out of proportion. You said tacky and I asked why (which is still unclear) and then gave some counterpoint examples of why the day might be significant to them. I was just curious.

Easy now. They'll have to fire the guy who orchestrated this disaster and then rehire him a few years down the road before we can start talking about that.

[cookinbrak]

2 minutes ago, KSpan said:

I didn't blow anything out of proportion. You said tacky and I asked why (which is still unclear) and then gave some counterpoint examples of why the day might be significant to them. I was just curious.

I think (just my opinion) that it's tacky because people didn't go to this poopfest because they wanted to sample different beers-they wanted to be seen by other people sampling different kinds of beer. because they seek acceptance. So he didn't propose there because he wanted to marry her- he wanted to be seen by others that he thinks are acceptable proposing.

He was either wearing a fedora, a toboggan, or a man bun/boyfriend knob.

[Cookie Lyon]

23 minutes ago, KSpan said:

I didn't blow anything out of proportion. You said tacky and I asked why (which is still unclear) and then gave some counterpoint examples of why the day might be significant to them. I was just curious.

I think the marriage proposal was tacky because it occurred at a beer festival. I didn't find that to be romantic at all. Yes, I know people can propose anywhere that might be significant to them, but that's just my opinion.

[Lumps]

This ain’t anyone’s fault but the sue happy idiots.

What do you think the outcome would be if lightning hit someone or something and people got injured? Or can these morons even comprehend that scenario?

It’s always a good business decision to shut it down than have a lawsuit and god knows what else. People always want to blame others for a natural tragedy, show me one that has occurred, just one, recently where blame wasn’t thrown at someone for something.

Now people are butthurt whiny babies.

[Peon Awesome]

I've been to 3 different beer festivals and they were all great. You don't pay $50 thinking you are going to drink $50 in beer. It's an experience, an opportunity to try from 100 beers in one sitting, several of those you might have never heard of otherwise. If you love beer and have the cash to spare, it's not an outrageous ask. 

Sounds like they dropped the ball majorly here. Each one I went to, I never waited more than 10 minutes in any single line (and most waits were less than 2 minutes), and they sure as hell didn't run out of the sample glasses. That's embarrassing. But hopefully they've learned from their mistakes. 

 

 

[amcoolio]

1 hour ago, Lumps said:

This ain’t anyone’s fault but the sue happy idiots.

What do you think the outcome would be if lightning hit someone or something and people got injured? Or can these morons even comprehend that scenario?

It’s always a good business decision to shut it down than have a lawsuit and god knows what else. People always want to blame others for a natural tragedy, show me one that has occurred, just one, recently where blame wasn’t thrown at someone for something.

Now people are butthurt whiny babies.

Uh, if you pay 50 dollars and never get to drink any beer then the company organizing the event should refund the price. So yes, that is the company's fault. They should have planned for that in case of severe weather.