Overheard at Big Beers Fest

Dear Client:Another Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival has just passed. It's one of those beerfests for brewers, thanks to Vail's landscape. And as such, it's a useful barometer for where their heads are at the start of each year. On Thursday's Calibration Brewmaster dinner, hosts Adam Avery and Sam Calagione often marveled at how far consumer tastes have come. Case in point: Sam recounted how 90 Minute IPA originally sported a label with a circus freak hammering a nail