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(Balboa Park San Diego)
A massive spontaneous craft beer hunt, which substituted rare bottles of craft beer for the normal candy or egg options has led to street violence and possible injury in San Diego’s most famous urban park.
Word of a flash mob beer hunt to be held in Balboa Park had been whispered about for weeks via social media and on sketchy craft beer news and lifestyle platforms…
But most industry watchers dismissed the rumored beer hunt as an internet hoax until a bottle of Firestone Walker’s über- limited Coconut Rye Parabola was found under a bush by a dog walker last night.
Word of the beer’s discovery (a week ahead of its scheduled release) spread like wildfire in the early morning hours and by 5am there were reports of huge mobs scouring San Diego’s legendary 1,200 acre park for more hidden craft beer rarities.
Police where quickly called in to try to quell the crowd as beer skirmishes broke out in the Marston Hills natural region of the park as well near the Alcazar Garden.
But the increased police presence and San Diego Mayor Kevin Falconer’s impassioned pleas to citizens to avoid the area has done little at this point to stop the craft beer crazed mobs now roaming the park in search of the hard to get beer rarities.
CNN News crews caught one individual with a newly found bottle of 2014 Proprietor’s Bourbon County Stout, desperately fighting his way out of the park….
Broken bottles of Omnipollo rarities and Modern Times Beer exotics have been reported as police helicopters swarm the city’s most celebrated park in hopes of dispersing the still growing crowds!
For more on the escalating crisis in Balboa Park (a huge black eye for craft beer industry) check out the live video feed from San Diego’s 10News.
