I mentioned that I was going to the Spring Beer Fling last month, then never got around to telling you about it. Why, you may ask? Well because I was super happy with some of the cool pictures I took, then I dropped my cell phone (aka my camera) into the toilet. Happily, it was freshly cleaned and shiny. Unhappily, my phone didn’t care about my wonderful cleaning habits. Here’s a thing I found out: turn your phone off IMMEDIATELY if it gets wet. Because otherwise things get fried, to put it scientifically. Even alcohol and organic rice will not save it.
Anyways, coming back from another squirrel moment…
The Spring Beer Fling was A LOT of fun. I didn’t get to try all of the different drinks I would have liked to because of that thing were I had to wake up eventually but I did try Light My Fire which was as amazing as expected. A mixed drink with Angry Orchard and Fireball? Like that could be not awesome. Also the Arnold Palmer Remix with Sam Adams Cold Snap, lemonade, and Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka. ‘Cuz vodka. I did not try a single Beerlini Puree which is a sad, sad thing but I was a too little distracted to remember everything.
The bands were a lot of fun. And guess what? My partner in crime did not destroy his phone so I actually have a couple of pictures. You have to love The University of Tampa in the background. As a matter of fact I was so loving it we walked across the river to check out the buildings. If you get a chance, walk through them, they are pretty amazing. I’d show you, but you know, the phone incident.
That’s another great thing about the Beer Fling. We got bracelets at the door (paper, not like, jewels or anything) and we could leave and come back as we wanted. Since the Fling was from noon to 10pm that made it pretty cool. There are a LOT of things to walk around and look at around Curtis Hixon Park.
If you missed it you can’t go to the Spring Beer Fling again until next spring, of course. However, Big City Events, who put this on, has several other events every year, and they seem to add new ones all the time. So check out all of their coming events, and maybe I’ll run into you at one of them. Not that either of us would know that, but still.
I received two VIP tickets to Spring Beer Fling 2015 in exchange for writing a review and a giveaway. As always, my opinions are all mine.