nerax cask festival

that's right: cask festival. i didn't take pictures but it was all cask all the time, with a majority of beers coming from the UK. notables were darkstar espresso stout and the stadium bitter by a brewery that starts with M.
the darkstar had notes of pine and pork with a little coffee, and the stadium bitter was rife with floral and citrus hop tones, tempered with a smooth cask body. don't ask me to remember any of the other breweries because i won't see them again until next year.
it was a neat festival, all in all, the crowd being about half people my age and half people my parents' age; a good sign that serious beer enjoyment was taking place. admission was 15$, then pints/half pints/quarter pints were 6/3/2 at one big cash bar backed by a scaffold of gravity tapped casks. big whiteboards displayed the list, color coded by country, and when i got the last quarter pint of german maerzen they sent out an eraser on a stick decorated as the reaper's scythe to erase it.
very unique, and i'll definitely be going back next time.