Ah, I figured out why I didn't quite like revel. Mainly "interceptors" as shown here:
http://robfig.github.com/revel/samples/booking.html
It doesn't feel like idiomatic Go to me, which for me is a big deal. Perhaps if I start running into problems using only net/http I'll change my mind.
Will be sure to give revel another try in that case, but it looks like I'll like goooo's approach more.