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Buy pre-sale tickets, $15+processing fee. If you're a vet, you can get half off pre sale and on the day of. That is nice. I was more worried about things that were not readily available here in Phoenix whether the folks are catering or from out of state.
Basically, if you don't go at the beginning and were waiting for Easton Corbin's three songs, like me, you're not very smart or climbed Camelback in the AM and took a nap (this guy). For beer you had San Tan's full winter can offerings which are always awesome and you could have mixed drinks courtesy of Deep Eddy Vodka and Jack Daniels.
I've been to a few festivals around the valley and this reminded me of the Four Peaks Oktoberfest in that there was no other beer, for some reason when they said 200 kegs of beer I thought 200 kegs of different beer. So Remember for next year, this is San Tan country.
The best BBQ for me was the Taste of Bama, the $5 Rib Tips was a lot of food. Followed by Porkopolis which you can find up Scottsdale Road. I didn't do Honey Bears...but they were here, and in two spots!!! We had a Pulled Pork sandwich from a Scottsdale spot I forgot, a sampler for the Louisiana style spot, and a no carb plate from another spot. The one I liked the least was also the longest line, Outlaw BBQ from Oregon. I got two ribs to split, they were not cheap, and it was wet and meh.
What drags me down to a third star was the crowd, due to the low entry price of $15-20 they just come in droves. Quite often it was tough to get around, whereas many of the beer festivals here have a higher entry point. People have to make money, but perhaps a higher entry fee that gets you a couple beers would stave off such a huge crow. There just wasn't the sort of real estate required. The density pretty much shut off the Verizon network so I couldn't check into this event!!!
Also, as a matter of style, every sauce walking by was Ketchup based. There was no mustard based barbecue and that needs to change post haste. All in all though, four hours of entertainment we got by for about $45/head.
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