Hogshead Bend
Hogshead Bend is a small town of about 200 souls that is built around a spring in the midst of the fields of eastern Ysser. It would be entirely unremarkable but for the fact that it hosts an annual festival on the date of Brewers’ Fest, a day holy to the god Pekko. For the week before the holiday, the population of the town swells fiftyfold or more as travelers from far and wide come to taste (and, in the case of merchants, purchase hogsheads of) the ales and beers competing in the annual competition for best brew of Hogshead Bend. Whether it is the water of the village spring, the grains grown in the nearby fields, or some other unknown factor, the ales and beers of the six brewers in this tiny village are recognized as the best throughout Akados. After each year’s Brewers’ Fest, the winning brew can often be found in taverns as far Kingsgardt, Castorhage, Bard’s Gate, Brookmere, and the Tycho Free States.
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