May 23, 2015
New Belgium Clips Beer and Film Review & Pictures
A lot of people knew about New Belgium Clips Beer and Film event as evidenced by the amount of people that were there. Combined with the perfect weather, this event was a little too small for the Kansas City crowd. Enough space to put your blanket, but waiting in line for tokens and then beer took up to an hour. Tokens are great, but when there’s only one location to get them it can be frustrating. The timing was too small, as well. With just two hours before the film began, there was a lot to take in. Boulevardia had the right idea by having multiple locations for tokens and spreading their festival over three days.
The event itself was enjoyable. Although a bit too “hipster” for my taste, I get what kind of crowd they were trying to entice and there were a lot of them there. Bicycle valet, food trucks, postcards to send, an old-timey interactive display, a bubble movie set, and beers, of course, were all perks of the event at Theis Park. New Belgium knows how to make beer, so there were no disappointments there. Their Film Noir, a festival only release, was as they described – a Milk Dud in a cup and I like Milk Duds. They were also serving canned beers and sours.
I appreciate the event. It’s something unique to do outside the same, old (yet still fun) beer festivals Kansas City has multiplied in over the last few years. I arrived at 6:50pm, but would recommend getting there even earlier. Cans were being sold to early birds at 6:30pm and it gives you more of an opportunity to check out everything before the crowd arrives.
Here are the pictures:
