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Our homebrew club, the Central Valley Brewers Guild, is looking into a Sacramento pub crawl, where the participants are delivered, and returned home, by Amtrak. We are looking for alcohol responsible methods of transportation to ensure that our crawlers are returned home safely, as well as not endangering the public at large.
The CVBG Founders have [...]
Friday night, a group from the Central Valley Brewers Guild descended on our local BevMo for a tasting with our local up and coming brewery, Dust Bowl Brewing. It was exciting to see our buddy, Don Oliver (of Sam Adams Longshot fame), standing in the 6′ x 6′ tasting box as we entered the store. [...]
I brewed Sunday. I winged it. It felt good.
Usually I spend several days getting ready for a brew session, but Sunday I played it by ear. Saturday, I went and saw Paul Thorn at the Sonora Blue Festival. He kicked ass! We saw him in an hour-long workshop, where it’s just Paul and an acoustic [...]
Last weekend, we traveled to the Bay Area to tour Alcatraz on Friday and then hit the 9th Annual Microbreweries Battling Breast Cancer Brewfest at Marin Brewing, in Larkspur, on Saturday.
Friday afternoon, after a quick lunch at Pier 39, we queued up at Pier 33 to catch the ferry to Alcatraz. I was surprised [...]
Stephen (formerly known as Some Guy:) and I got back home from NHC shortly after 11:00 a.m. this morning. As much as I really enjoyed NHC, it was nice to get home to familiar, comfortable surroundings and my family.
The 2009 National Homebrewers Conference was without a doubt one of the best organized conferences, on any [...]
Day 3 at NHC and I’m still alive! Today I attended the following sessions:
Commercial Hop Production and Sales and Its Effect on Homebrewers with Ralph Olson (of Hop Union)
The Equipment Geek with Kent Fletcher
Maintaining Ideal Yeast Health: Nutrients Yeast Need with Dr. Tobias Fischborn (of Lallemand, Inc.)
Yeast: Build Your Own Library with Maribeth Raines
Yeast: Ask [...]
