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The Rocking Jake Band from New Orleans
entertained the festival attendees.
Festival Pictures

Athens GA - 2:30 p.m - 7:00 p.m. - April 6, 2002

This festival just keeps getting bigger and better.
Photos courtesy of Bob Gordon.
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Festival Pictures

Athens GA - 2:30 p.m - 7:00 p.m. - April 6, 2002

This festival just keeps getting bigger and better.
Photos courtesy of Bob Gordon.
Atlanta Brewing Company' brewer Dave McClure (c) shows his booth's volunteers a few pointers.
As has become the norm, the crowd for the
Classic Fest continues to grow each year, with
well over 2000 folks attending.
The Rocking Jake Band from New Orleans
entertained the festival attendees.
Volunteers (l-r) Ryan Waite, Colleen Stapleton and Monica Carrol staff Atlanta's Dogwood Brewery booth.
Volunteers (l-r) Brent Wolkin and Amy Funk work the Ayinger (Germany) tasting table.
Volunteer Jill Sheets hands out samples of beers
from Atlanta's Max Lager's Brewpub.
Bobby Krusen (c), brewer for the Buckhead Brewery & Grill's Cumming and Alpharetta locations talks shop with some interested beer afficiandos.
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Volunteer Frank DiPietro prepares the display for the hot new import Czechvar from Czechoslovakian brewer Budejovicky Budvar.
On hand to help promote the Athen's Five Points Bottle Shop of were (l-r) Bill Beaudin, Paul Letostak, Sara Oswalt, Jill Abell, and Jennifer Kendric.

Volunteer Don Hunter (c) pours some Copper Creek (Athens GA) beer while brewer Matt Buley (r) looks on.
Copper Creek recently opened in the space of the  former Burntstone Brewpub.
Andy Klubock, owner of Summitt's Wayside Tavern group of Atlanta area pubs (formerly under the Taco Mac umbrella) discusses brews with a festival patron.
John Cochran, sales manager for the newly formed Terrapin Beer Company of Athens GA discuss his company's debut with vounteer Stephen Markham.