Barleywine Festival

In keeping with the traditions of many, we loaded up on brunch at Magnolia before we went to the Barleywine Festival, not so much because we needed the food to fuel us (that didn't hurt) but because we needed to soak in the relative comity and peace before we plunged into the anarchy of Toronado on the big day. Toronado was everything we expected, and a few flavors of barleywine that we didn't. But an even bigger surprise was that fact that we humble documentary filmmakers were allowed into the hallowed halls of Noc Noc to witness the ancient ceremony of Barleywine judging in all its magnificence. Congratulations to Glacier Brewhouse whose "Big Woody" Barleywine took home the top prize.