There were at least four other fairly big events that took place over the weekend.  Here’s a rundown:

Hair of the Dog held its annual Earth Day Sale (swiped the image from the Champagne of Blogs, thanks!). Portlandbeer.org reported that things went just fine. What was available? The usuals: Hair of the Dog Fred, Fred from the Wood (200 cases!), and Adam, all of which were on tap, too.  The brewery was also selling Ruth, Doggie Claws, and its spring 2008 bottling of Blue Dot IPA.

Those in line early were rewarded with “Adam Batch #1 and some .375s of Dave from 1995,” which sold out in less than 15 minutes, according to Portlandbeer.org.  Dave was reportedly selling at $80 a bottle (Take THAT eBay!).  Hair of the Dog Dave has earned the brewery its highest beer ratings to date.  From Ratebeer:

Dave is an English Barley Wine. This beer was produced in 1994, and won first place at the 1998 Toronado Barley Wine Festival. The strength was achieved by taking 300 gallons of Adam and freezing it twice, leaving only 100 gallons.

Oh, and they sold a squash-flavored beer, too.  Beer Advocate has a fruit/vegetable category, but has anyone had, let alone, seen a legitimate vegetable beer??

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Hunter Mountain and the Hudson Valley Beer and Food Festival put on their annual New York-only beer fest, Tap New York.  Over 40 breweries were invited for the two day event but not all, including Southern Tier, made it. There are awards given out at the fest annually and Ithaca Beer Co. came out the big winner this year.

On Saturday, two breweries were honored with the titles, “Best Craft Beer Brewery in New York State” and “Best Craft Beer Brewery in the Hudson Valley.” Ithaca Beer Co. took home the state award and Browns Brewing took home the Hudson Valley award.  Ithaca then won the gold and silver medals for the individual beer awards with Ithaca Ten and Ithaca Flower Power, respectively.  Says the brewery about Ithaca Ten:

[…] our Anniversary Ale.  It’s an exploded version of CascaZilla.The beer has A LOT going on.  Incredibly aromatic, oily and viscous, slightly woody from the judicious use of some  Bamberg smoked malt, with a sweet and juicy flavor, like cherries.  It’s the biggest and hoppiest (read: most expensive) beer we’ve ever brewed […]

Last year, Lake Placid Pub and Brewery took home both best brewery “Cups” as they’re called.   Judges deemed Southern Tier Unearthly Imperial IPA the best beer in-state at last year’s fest.

For some pics from this year, head over to Beer Bits 2.

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All About Beer Magazine held its first of two “world beer festivals” to take place in North Carolina this year. One was held in Raleigh yesterday. The other is scheduled in Durham in October.

The fest is billed as “the largest celebration of national and international specialty beers in the Southeast…300 beers from 150 breweries […]” according to the official site. As with many other fests there have been some mixed reviews; you can join the discussion at the North Carolina-based beer community, Beerinator.com.  There’s also coverage over at Musings Over a Pint and My Life on Craft.

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Lastly, the San Francisco International Beer Festival celebrated its 25th year with over 140 breweries bringing 300 beers. Still no reports on this one though I would expect that Jay Brookston or someone else that is local to the area will blog about it soon enough.