We had a great night at the Bronx Zoo for their annual Brew at the Zoo.
The zoo is a large outdoor venue for a this fun summer festival event with all the right touches needed to pull this off.
There are many large open areas where food trucks and beer vendors from near and far can setup.
There were several live bands playing in different areas as well as a DJ and dance area near the carousel (which was operational.)
Each guest got a small 2 or 3 oz plastic beer mug and these were refilled by the many beer companies setup everywhere in the zoo. Each vendor had at least 2 types to try. Many IPA's some pilsners, some fruity beers and lighter ones as well.
The food trucks varied from a polish kielbasa and pierogi truck to an Arthur ave pizza van with pizza oven, several hot dog trucks, burger trucks, seafood etc... the food we had was all great.
We had a great time at the karaoke bar area with a live band playing songs and members of the crowd with lots of brew inspired enthusiasm signing lead on these songs.
There were certainly thousands of people at this event last night but we never felt we were in a large crowd as everything was so spread out throughout the zoo. The beer and food lines moved pretty quickly. The beer was obviously paid for by the admission ticket and the food was reasonably priced. There were many clean bathrooms and port a potties so no lines again.
This was a fantastic summer party and one we will enjoy returning to next year. The zoo did a great job with all the logistics. read more