One of DS23's fears, in his pre-evaluation of the kiosk offerings, was that the "craft beers" would be, not just boring, but worse than what we consume at home, with dinner. He was pleasantly surprised by Germany and Canada.
Here, evaluating the German brews...
The only other brews that excited us were the Unibroue offerings in Canada. You had to kind of walk around to the left of the Moosehead / Labatt taps and "discover" them. To add to the thrill even more, DS23 determined in something less than a millisecond that the brew that costs him $9 for 10 oz locally (and we couldn't be closer to Canada-the-country), cost $8 for 16 oz in Epcot (and no tipping). I taught him "value for the dollar" well, and am reaping the benefits!
We agreed that, if Unibroue became "permanent" (please, please, please), we would definitely find ourselves in the UK-Canada around 3 pm, and alternate between the new British Revolution and Off Kilter, while refilling our Unibroue's, until Illuminations. These pavilions have never been a must-do-destination for us before, but our whole world could be shifting......
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British Revolution - we also agreed that, much as we enjoyed the British Invasion, this band has some advantages:
- generally better vocals
- generally better instrumentally
- much better (expanded) set list, which includes a much longer period of time and much broader styles of music (Beatles, Zeppelin, Clapton, Elton John, Herman's Hermits, etc). We hope their set list just keeps expanding, because there were repeaters in the 5 sets we watched.
Suggestion for Disney: Now that you have a band this good, doing more complex music than just the Beatles, it is time to enhance the sound system so that the quality of the band can be heard without so much blatant distortion, especially the voices. The sound is pretty perfect at the American Garden Theatre. I hope an upgrade is in the 2012 budget for UK.
I suspect adding Ireland as an permanent, informal pavilion-kiosk somewhere between / around UK and Canada would pretty much change the whole dynamic (traffic flow, destination) of Epcot forever. How do I know - two logical observations:
- the Irish diaspora (there's a lot of Irish-Americans and Irish-Canadians around, and we have "arrived," with our education and discretionary cash in hand, and a slight predilection for beer )
- the fact that, for the first time ever, I found myself in a Disney bathroom-stall with NO toilet paper - in the UK pavilion. For Disney to not be able to keep up with something so fundamental to their mission - well, that's a LOT of beer being sold, consumed, and recycled. Who needs marketing data, when you have "facts" like that?
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