Beer Festivals.
They are shit, aren't they. It's a hard thing to say given that they are a celebration of beer, but they really are shit. The beer is invariably badly kept. Casks need to be kept in 11-13⁰ temps, but they are racked at whatever the ambient temperature happens to be, which is only that low on a late autumn to early spring day, outside. They need to be racked and allowed to settle, with a cellarperson controlling the carbonation, but they never are. So what you get is a pint of flat, warm beer.
Added to which, everyone is pissed and therefore annoying. The only way to cope with this is to drink copious quantities of flat, warm beer.
And why do the people who run beer festivals think that guests will be entertained by a bunch of paunchy 60-somethings in leather waistcoats and reading glasses balanced on their pates trying to play Thin Lizzy covers?
I'd rather stay at home and drink my own piss tbqhwy