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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 [...]
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 [...]
This post marks my 100th post to the Lazy Brewer blog! I wondered if I’d get here with my little blogging experiment. It won’t be too long before I blog about my 100th batch of beer.
Last week I picked up a 13 cu ft chest freezer, and Ranco digital temperature controller, for cold keg storage. [...]
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 [...]
The first couple of days at NHC have been blast! I’ve been really impressed with the organization of the entire event and I’m particularly pleased that everything starts on time. Kind of surprised that a bunch of beer guys (and guyettes:) can do that!
We saw a presentation at 9 a.m. this morning with Sam Calagione [...]
