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Comment on NY Brewfest Fiasco AKA Escape From Governors Island by chavachick

chavachick — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:24:57 +0000

left this feedback on ny brewfests website: attended byc brewfest on governors and was very disappointed. attended the beer festival at the martha clara vineyards 3 years ago, and was much better run. as i recall there were two shifts for drinking and got a ticket for free food! why this was not emulated on governors island is beyond me. i know it’ll never happen, but would love to see some kind of compensation or APOLOGY!

Comment on NY Brewfest Fiasco AKA Escape From Governors Island by Kerry

Kerry — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:56:05 +0000

I posted a comment yesterday evening and noticed it’s now gone, I was looking forward to seeing what others said so thanks for posting the comments! I can’t complain about the ferry – we arrived at 2.30pm and got straight on a ferry and then spent a little time exploring the island, sounds like that was a good idea. The lack of crowd control entering the event was a disaster, being only 5ft in that crowd in the heat left me claustrophobic and ready to faint, they should have had structured lines. Same goes for inside. I can’t believe how oversold that event was, they should never have reopened the sale of tickets this week, greed obviously kicked in! We left around 6.30pm to go for a burger and pint somewhere else as we were thirsty, hungry and couldn’t get anything at event. sounds like we left at just the right time then too as didn’t wait too long for the next ferry, maybe 20mins. By 5pm the lines were taking 30mins, just to get a glass filled to the line (not even the top) that is gone in a mouthful. And yeah, plenty others with multiple glasses and downing shots and refilling and holding it up for everyone else (although can understand why they felt they needed to do that!). It could have been such a great event, some great breweries and beers and I’m so sad I didn’t get to sample more than about 8. NOT worth $60!!

Comment on NY Brewfest Fiasco AKA Escape From Governors Island by Paul

Paul — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:27:58 +0000

I posted this on the Brewfest Facebook page but it looks like they’re deleting all critical comments.

The variety of brewery’s was great Very disappointed with this event though, the planning left a lot to be desired. some examples it took 45 minutes just to get in when the gates opened @ 330, the lines for everything except the toilets( good job there) were incredibly long. Example: was on line to buy some food the line wasn’t moving went out of … See Morefest to the lunch truck got something to eat sat down ate it went back in and saw that the people who were right in front of us in line hadn’t been waited on yet. Here’s a suggestion either sell less tickets to the event or start the event earlier.

Then trying to leave the island was the like blind leading the blind. We stood at the ferry area for over an hour (got there just before 7) waiting for a Manhattan bound Watertaxi while watching Brooklyn bound boats leaving every 5 min or so. There was no one from the Fest in charge just security guards with with no idea what to do. Finally after more than an hour the light went off in somebodys head. We were allowed to walk to the other side of the island to take the Governors Island ferry. What happened to all the boats going back to Pier 11?

GABF, TAPNY come to mind as some of the larger beer festivals I’ve been to that are very good examples of well run tasting events. You should really contact them.

Comment on NY Brewfest Fiasco AKA Escape From Governors Island by Paul

Paul — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:06:13 +0000

and now they’ve removed the discussion page from their facebook profile!!!

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