Eat Real Festival in Oakland

The Eat Real Festival will be happening in Oakland August 28-30. What is the Eat Real Festival, you say? Well, here’s a little tidbit I picked up from their website:

Founded in 2008, Eat Real Festival is a social venture created to inspire eaters to choose tasty, healthy, good food. Through a vibrant, local festival in Oakland, CA, and a focus on delicious and sustainable “street food,” Eat Real puts eaters in contact with the real people — the farmers, chefs, and producers — who make our food. Eat Real Festival will donate a percentage of its profit to several California organizations promoting access to healthy and affordable food, entrepreneurship and economic development.

Street food is a real staple in many countries and I think it’s a shame that it’s not more widely accepted here in the United States. When I traveled abroad in Thailand and Malaysia, we ate almost exclusively from street food venders. Some of the best meals I’ve had.

In addition to all the good food, there will be a beer tent featuring some of your favorite Northern California breweries. Dave McLean from Magnolia & Alembic is one of the principle collaborators of this event and I suspect he will be calling in many of his Bay Area brewing buddies to help out.

I will be at the Eat Real Festival in to promote Beer Connoisseur magazine. For those who don’t already know, in addition to blogging about beer on BetterBeerBlog, I also blog on the Beer Connoisseur website. As of this post, Beer Connoisseur, in conjunction with the folks at Eat Real Festival, will be giving away free passes to the Eat Real Festival for the next 30 subscribers to the magazine who use my promo code: FBC-0110. While the festival itself is free to get into, a ticket to the beer shed will cost you $20 advance/$25 day of.

In the interest of full disclosure, whenever someone signs up for a subscription using my promo code FBC-0110, I get paid. It’s not much but I do get a little bit of money. Blogging is not a very lucrative endeavor, this is a labor of love for me, so any support you can give your local blogger would be appreciated. To date, I have earned enough money to buy a pint of beer but I can’t afford to tip. My goal is to earn enough money to buy to pints and leave an appropriate tip. One pint for me, one to share. Help a blogger out!

Eat Real Festival website: http://www.eatrealfest.com/

Beer Connoisseur website: https://www.beerconnoisseur.com/

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