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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 [...]
Another year is on the horizon, and it’s time to reflect on everything that is good in my life. My family loves me and puts up with all my eccentricities, and I’m truly blessed to have some of the best friends in the world. I have a fun and challenging job. I get to travel [...]
Batch 95
Before a recent Stockton Thunder game, I had the opportunity to enjoy a couple of Steve Altimari’s Black IPAs at Valley Brewing, in Stockton. It was a big ‘ole IPA, bursting with a wonderful grapefruit finish from massive amounts of Amarillo hops, and dark as night. Two of them made me really happy and [...]
Batch 94
Back in 2007, I brewed the best batch of beer I’ve ever brewed – Blue Flame Imperial IPA. It was my first encounter with Summit hops, and was intended to be a clone of Green Flash Imperial IPA. All modesty aside, it was far better than Green Flash’s efforts. Everyone who tasted it, even [...]
Today’s Teach a Friend to Brew Day event was successful in several ways. First and foremost, it was a wonder social event – many good (old) friends, some good (new) friends (I got to meet some local Twitter folks – Hi @AlexisDias !) and many friends of friends. Homebrewing just seems to attract high quality [...]
Saturday, November 7th, is Teach a Friend to Brew Day. The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day is an international event to introduce people to the hobby of homebrewing. For the fifth time, I’ll be inviting friends – and their friends – over to learn how to brew beer. We’ll be [...]
