A Beer Festival Inspires Visitors to Craft Inventive Pretzel Necklaces as Snacks
Who has the time to sit down and eat? Visitors to the Great American Beer Festival bake their own pretzels and make stylish food pendants.
DENVER — The Great American Beer Festival, housed in the 584,000-square-foot Colorado Convention Center, serves over 4,000 beers from over 800 breweries. Who has the time to sit down and eat? For the past few years, festival-goers have gotten creative by fashioning their own edible accessories, most popularly pretzel necklaces. They have become a kind of folk art tradition, providing a refreshing view on food porn usually reserved for a still life. Most bearers of the bready beads were veterans of the festival, some returning for their 10th year. Some baked their own pretzels, while others balanced the sweet and salty, with one even adding beet sticks for a flash of color. Here are a few of the salty knots draping the décolletage of the 62,000 visitors to the 37th annual beer festival and competition.
The Great American Beer Festival continues at the Colorado Convention Center (700 14th Street, Denver) through September 22.
