Winter Brew Fest Jan 30

The Brewing Network hosts its first annual Winter Brews Festival, January 30, at Linden Street Brewery-Oakland.

http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/ontap

SFBW10 Brewfest at the Beach Chalet

Aron Deorsey, Brewmaster at the Beach Chalet Brewery writes;

As you may know SF Beer Week is coming up in February.We were sitting around one day brainstorming on what events to do for SFBW10. At first we planned on doing a beer fest and invite other local breweries. But then one of the owners had a great idea: Instead of inviting other breweries, why not invite local homebrewers to showcase their wares?
The event would feature, but not be limited to:

-Tables of homebrew beer available for tastings

-Homebrewed beer competition

-Homebrewing 101-how-to demonstration

-Some brewing tips and supplies for sale etc.

-BBQ available a la carte

Give him a call if you'd like to get involved!
Aron Deorsey 415.386.8439

Beach Chalet Brewery

1000 Great Hwy

San Francisco, CA 94121

Rick Hendricks

We lost a Malt, an amazing musician and dear friend Rick Hendricks on December 7, 2009. He died after a year long battle with cancer. The news came during a huge gathering of his fellow musicians and friends at the Amnesia Club in San Francisco all gathered to pay tribute to Rick.

Cheers to you Rick, you will be missed.

edit: Here's a video of Rick and clips from the tribute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qs7YtsCE_c

2009 California State Homebrew comp results

Best of Show: Rick Reineman English Barleywine
Anchor Homebrew Club of the Year: Bay Area Mashers
Sierra Nevada Homebrewer of the Year: Mike Mraz

full results are in this .pdf: http://www.nchfinfo.org/StateComp/2009Winners.pdf

mark your calendars for Saturday, November 6th, 2010, for the 32nd
competition. Start brewing now!

Craft Beer Personality Profile

This group is more likely to spend time thinking about beer rather
than work. They are more open-minded than most people, seek out
interesting and varied experiences and are intellectually curious.
Craft-beer drinkers also skew as having a lower sense of responsibility
—they don't stress about missed deadlines and tend to be happy-go-
lucky about life.

Of course they don't even attempt to pigeon-hole the home-brewers...a
real rogue's gallery ;)

http://adage.com/article?article_id=140106

Tapped out: SF Brewing Company

SF Brewing Company is closing its doors after 24 years.

Allan Paul has sold the place to Absinthe, but they will not be brewing, so the equipment is for sale. The place will be open as SFBC until they run out of beer or whenever escrow closes.

You can make really good sake says Fred Eckhardt

The Beer Here blog talks about brewing sake, the other white beer: http://blog.oregonlive.com/thebeerhere/2009/10/fred_eckhardt_decrees_the_seas.html