Friends purchase tickets from Living Social or Groupon, so we got discount tickets. We got there maybe an hour and half after it open so there were no lines. I really like the setup, spacious, plenty of food vendors and really San Tan Brewery did a great job of having plenty of beer booths. Jack Daniels also did a wonderful job at their big booth with their bourbon museum and at the end a free shot and a photo booth. I thought very family friendly early in the day, great spacious venue for the music entertainment plenty of grass area to watch the bands. There were plenty of 2 dollar samples but majority wanted you to purchase a full plate which was full restaurant price. We did try quite a few samples and lucky a few place did give out free samples....again the bonus for coming early. We left around 5pm and it was really starting to pick up. We Uber there so parking was not an issue and they even had an Uber booth giving out discounts for your 1st ride etc. I thought all and all it was a pretty good event. Yes, I would go again next year we really had some good food tastings.