I haven't been to an R&D release before, and I did...

I haven't been to an R&D release before, and I didn't know what to expect. We resigned ourselves to a plan sure to disappoint: we aimed to arrive at 9am, wait in whatever mess of a queue we were presented with, and leave with enough information to have a better time the next trip.

Except that every snag we could think of was already addressed. Employees were heads-up and spotted our various confusions and directed us well. The space available swallowed up the not insignificant crowd there for the release, and we were done with the whole pickup in minutes.

So we celebrated with Serendipity in the beer garden. We've been to the original brewery, and the hilltop brewery when it was new, but we've been absent for the last few years. I don't expect we'll make that mistake again. This was not the New Glarus I fondly remembered, this is an excellent maturation of the operations and grounds and it demands further visits.