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We spent five quality hours at the Seattle International Beer Festival yesterday, and if you're not doing anything right now, we suggest you hotfoot it down to the Seattle Center before 7 p.m. The beer selection is phenomenal, you get a four-oz. glass with a Franziskaner monk on it, and there's Port Townsend cheese, pretzels, and bratwurst to be had. If you have a folding chair, you might bring one with for extra comfort. We sampled the Great Divide Chocolate Oaked Aged Yeti, Scotch Silly, Ninkasi Vanilla Oatis Stout and Total Domination IPA, Allagash FOUR, and St. Bernardus Abt 12. They were all terrific beers in their own way, and it's hard to pick just one...but we'd have drunk a whole pint of the Scotch Silly without complaint.

          

The Tour de Fat bicycle festival, sponsored by New Belgium Brewery, took place at Gasworks Park today. Naturally we bicycled over to see what it was all about. On the way, two guys in a pickup pulled up next to us and rolled down the window. Uh oh, we thought. "Hey, nice bike!" they yelled. "And nice shirt!" (We were wearing the cream of our Hawaiian shirt collection.) They gave us a thumbs up. Then they roared off again. Tour de Fat was kinda like that.