点评:We love visiting Eckley and have been here multiple times. Just to visit and for events. Today was their first ever Hooch Wagon Brew Fest. We purchased two tickets for a little over $80 with fees. We arrived at opening at checked in, showed our ID's and were given wrist bands. The woman at the table started to hand us small plastic cup. We said we were supposed to receive actual glasses. The other lady said there wasn't anything 'special' on our tickets to receive the small tasting glass. Not sure why there would be when you read what they posted. Another lady scanned our tickets - again. According to all of the Eckley posts (photo attached) you were to receive a tasting glass as long as you purchased tickets ahead of time, which we did. Finally after back and forth between 4 different women we were given the small glass. It was a hastle and didn't need to be. The two older women didn't want to give them to us, but eventually did with hesitation. That was definitely not a good start to the event. We feel that everyone going should receive the small glass, especially when paying over $40 per ticket.
There were probably a dozen breweries/wineries. Two food trucks and one table selling cookies. We were familiar with most of the breweries and were surprised there weren't more involved. We have a lot of great local-ish breweries. I understand it's their first time having this event. We would attend again if there's not the hastle with the glass and if there are more vendors there.
翻译:我们很喜欢去Eckley,来过好几次。就是为了参观和参加活动。今天是他们首届Hooch Wagon Brew Fest啤酒节。我们买了两张门票,加手续费一共80多美元。我们到场登记,出示了身份证,然后拿到了腕带。桌边的女士递给我们一个塑料小杯。我们说我们应该拿到真正的玻璃杯。另一位女士说,我们的门票上没有任何“特殊”的东西可以让我们得到小杯的品酒杯。读了他们发的帖子,我不明白为什么会有这种东西。另一位女士又扫描了我们的门票。根据Eckley的所有帖子(附图),只要提前买票,就可以得到一个品酒杯,我们提前买好了。最后,在4位女士之间来回折腾之后,我们才拿到了小杯。这很麻烦,而且完全没有必要。两位年纪较大的女士本来不想给我们,但最终犹豫了一下还是给了。这绝对不是活动的良好开端。我们觉得每个去的人都应该得到一个小酒杯,尤其是在门票超过40美元的情况下。
大概有十几家啤酒厂/葡萄酒厂。两辆餐车和一张售卖饼干的桌子。我们对大多数啤酒厂都很熟悉,所以很惊讶没有更多啤酒厂参与。我们有很多很棒的本地啤酒厂。我知道这是他们第一次举办这样的活动。如果酒杯不那么麻烦,而且那里有更多的摊位,我们还会再来的。