CBC Day 1 Part II

You may have seen the tweet, but I didn't have any wireless and lacked the time and motivation to seek it out, so I typed up some posts and will publish them throughout the week.  

I have been to my fair share of beer festivals and the opening reception for the CBC was hands down the best I’ve ever been to.  Although it wasn’t dubbed a beer festival, the reception had all the makings of a festival.  Most (all?) of the breweries in the Illinois Brewer’s Guild had their jockey-boxes set up serving a bunch of their beers.  A bunch of different food booths were set up with a huge variety of food.  Really what made it awesome was the venue; it was at the Chicago Field Museum.  I can’t really do it justice with words and didn’t take any good pictures, but it was cool.  I mean, there were breweries set up all around the T-Rex skeleton.

The conference is sort of an overwhelming event and experience as a whole.  I felt sort of like an imposter walking around as I have only been in the industry a little over a year.  I did start to feel better about it as I started seeing people I knew and realized that yes, I am a part of the industry and I know a lot more people than I give myself credit for.