Luckily we bought the VIP tickets and had a great time tasting all the samples for the hour we got in early.  Thankfully I was already stuffed to content when the masses were let in at 800 because lines formed that were 30min long and they ran out of food long before 11 which is when the event ended.  I did not eat anything after 800.  We hit the drink lines and drank our drinks while standing in the next line.  They had a few stations where you could mix your own Bombay Sapphire drinks while someone told you how to make different gin drinks, there was no wait for this area which was very nice.  My friends that arrived at the 800 general admission were very disappointed and ended up having to get pizza afterward.  I really enjoyed 95% of everything I ate/drank which is usually not the case for food tasting events.