Campbell Beer Walk

Attended the Campbell Beer Walk for the first time last week in honor of Silicon Valley’s Beer Week! I understand this is their second year putting on the event and found myself having a pretty good time. However, the cons outweighed the pros for me and I probably won’t be attending again next year for the price of $ 30.
It is $ 30 in advance and $ 35 at the door — we checked in outside of Khartoums where they hand you a map (that you cannot lose), a glass, and a wristband. I had thought it would be a farmers market like set up with the street closed off so we couldn’t be walking around drinking in an open area. however the breweries were actually located in the individual boutique shops/​restaurants/​bars around Downtown Campbell.
Pros:
+Pretty decent selection of beer
+The crowd that comes out to Downtown Campbell is fun, not in a ghetto Downtown SJ way
+Lots of restaurants around to eat after
+Free glass, easy check-​in
Cons:
–The shops were small so the lines got very long to wait for your beer
–You had to reuse the same glass for each sample without even a rinse. which is not the proper way to sample — you definitely should not be mixing any flavors of different beers
–If you got there around 7:00pm like we did, you did not have time to taste everything
–The map did not label which breweries were in which shops, so you couldn’t prioritize and just had to wing it from shop to shop
–Although they have a number of local breweries come out, there weren’t many that you couldn’t get locally already (Almanac Brewing was the most unique one I tried)