Taste of Silicon Valley

Basic Festival Pictures...

Picture One - A nice view of the stage from our booth with St. Joseph's Cathedral in the background...
Picture Two - The new Tech Museum of Art...
Picture Three - A skewed view of the Fairmont Hotel...
Picture Four - Children playing in the water fountians in the park out front of the Fairmont...
Picture Five - An early view of some Swing Dancers...
Picture Six - A look at the San Jose Museum of Art...

A Look at Our Booth and the People in It...

Picture One - Picture of the front of our booth - too bad the banner was tilting in due to a lack of a ladder...
Picture Two - We were teamed up with Stoddard's (local brewpub) and Coast Range (local microbrewery)...
Picture Three - The Crew... From Left to Right you've got Mr. Diego Marcical - Hoppy's traveling tattoo artist extraordinaire, Ed Kopta - Hoppy's new brewer in Sacramento, Aaron - fresh off of an acting stint in England, Troy Paski -well what can you say..., and Chris Baerwaldt - the backbone of Hoppy's Technical SW/HW needs...
Picture Four - There's usually a lot of love that goes around in a festival booth as can be seen by the group "squeeze"...

Nice Posing...

Picture One - Hoppy tattooee number one. Unfortunately, festival sponsors were forced to drink out of plastic BudLite cups due to a shortage of glassware...
Picture Two - Hoppy tattoeee number two. Diego's just getting warmed up...

Every Festival has a Couple of Cute Women...

Picture One - Which leads us to this group of cuties...
Picture Two - However, it seems that Diego had to check out his handy-work a bit closer...

Words Alone can not Say Enough about this Set of Photos...

Picture One - Out of the blue this woman approaches our booth for a taste of our beer, and well I'm sure you can figure out what Diego was up too by the time she got her little taste of "hoppy" delight...
Picture Two - You have to admit that it takes a certain amount of skill to apply a tattoo on such an attractive woman when the camera is being focused on you... Don't forget to check out the Security guys in the background as well...
Picture Three - and it seems that Diego is quite pleased with his most recent tattoo...

I suppose if you are not going to your local festivals for one reason or another, you can always live a portion of your life vicariously through our website postings. However, we would rather see you at the festivals enjoying yourselves and spreading the Hoppy word of fun...