From the Bruisin’ Ales blog:

“If you had the opportunity to meet Sam Calagione (aka, our new t-shirt model), you know what I’m talking about. He’s a class act, laid-back, funny, and clearly passionate about beer. We love that. Better yet: He LOVED Asheville. Although we had a little glitch with his flight cancelled from Charlotte to Asheville on Friday, we made it work and hope everyone was happy. The Thirsty Monk put on a killer “Brewer’s Choice” line-up of beers on Saturday, and per usual, Zambra outdid themselves again with a great brunch pairing.”

Untamed Beer has a pretty interesting post about picking Calagione up from the Asheville airport.

“Let me tell you, I haven’t felt that much pressure driving a car since my dad was giving me my first lessons when I was 16: I’m under is a tremendous time crunch, I had never been to the Asheville airport so I didn’t exactly know where I was going, I’m going to pick up a craft brewing icon, and there are dozens of people back at the store that will be really pissed if I screw up.”

And there are a bunch of pictures taken over the weekend that are up on the official event page on facebook.

Looks like it was a hell of a lot of fun, drinking great beer in a great NC city!

We’re not sure how everyone found out, but they did, and they voted for the North Carolina city on a national poll. You can check out the poll that Charlie Papazian started on his blog. You can also read what local Asheville Beer writer, Tony Kiss, had to say in his article about the national title.

We can all hope that this extra publicity doesn’t turn into longer waits at the taps!