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Porters Pub owner Jim Hanley helps a bartender prepare a round of celebratory shots during Rochester's Ugly Sweater Pub Crawl on Saturday. (Rochester Voice photos)

ROCHESTER - Rochester residents may have had to search hard for Bigfoot during his various sighting around the downtown earlier this fall, but finding an ugly sweater in the downtown on Saturday was no challenge whatsoever.
The setting for such ugliness was the fifth annual Ugly Sweater Pub Crawl, which continues to grow in popularity each and every year.
Undermanned barrooms across the downtown were overrun with thirsty customers enjoying beers, shots and the camaraderie of the season, while showing off their most horrific threads, which often were electrified with an array of Christmas lights.

Guitarist and singer Max Sullivan plays at Mitchell Hill Barbecue Grill and Brew during Saturday's fifth annual Ugly Sweater Pub Crawl in downtown Rochester.


The pub crawl, sponsored by Sam Adams, included local watering holes such as Revolution Taproom and Grill, Lilac City Grille, Mitchell Hill Barbecue, Governor's Inn and Porter's Pub, where owner Jim Hanley served up toasted garlic bread and tomato and mini strawberry shortcakes to patrons.
All of the venues had free appetizers for those who turned out.
Some had live entertainment, including Mitchell Hill, which had Max Sullivan playing an array of soulful melodies by artists such as Van Morrison and Otis Redding.
While patrons at the various venues were having a wonderful time, the bartenders were underwater the entire afternoon, with patrons, looking for the next round, often seen waving debit and credit cars to and fro to get their attention.
Yeah, there's certain to be thousands at today's parade that begins at 3 p.m., but there may have been that many, cumulatively, at the crawl, which ran from 1-5 p.m.

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