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Here’s some snaps from the brewfest at California State Fair – including setup and aftermath. Enjoy.
Pouring Firestone Walker Drake’s Sour Beer

Before the Fest Sudwerk Bottles
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Related: View Photos of Awards Ceremony

Years back I used to do a lot of work with the California State Fair, specifically in the County Building where each county in the state gets to put together an exhibit they believe represents its people the most. Frequently counties will focus on their agricultural backbone, or in the case of Napa county they [...]

Last night (Friday) was the 2009 California State Fair Brewers Awards Ceremony and Brewfest. The event seemed to be smoother and better attended than in years past, and the quality of beers is clearly impressive. Here’s some pictures of the awards night.
Bob from Main Street Brewing – Winner of Best of Show!
Denise of Moylan’s
Arne from [...]

Today the American beer world is aflutter with the news that beer is in the news – on CNN no less. Yes, CNN did a decent job addressing America as a beer destination, but in all the piece seems to need an addendum – something for avid and rabid beer geeks. I’m not trying to [...]

Posted by Jeff Barber
Recently, PBN’s good friend Bob Silva’s, hop growing efforts came to fruition resulting in an explosion of healthy Cascade hops. Mike Sober, aka The Hop Hunter, and myself took advantage of Bob’s offer to pick the hops and we both came away with about 6 lbs. of wet hops for use in [...]

Join your local beer geeks on September 1st at Sacramento Brewing Company for a Brewers Dinner. Cost is $40 for FIVE courses, each served with a different SacBrew beer! If you haven’t been to a beer dinner before, this is your chance to learn some of the basics of food pairing, meet the Brewmaster Peter [...]

This is a bit of interesting news, apparently InBev has chosen a new marketing team to work on the global branding of Budweiser – Omnicom’s DDB arm. Omnicom is a massive and powerful marketing company that has accounts in all industries it seems – technology, food/drink, etc. While the news might not seem like a [...]

After a weekend camping along California’s Yuba River I was able to stop in at Auburn’s newest beer bar for a couple quick pints. To begin, there is a correction that needs to be made – in our previous post PBN stated there were 12 Belgian taps, which is not right. World Pub does have [...]

NEW PUB IN AUBURN
We’ve been hearing rumors about this for months, but Eric Nordby, a longtime beer professional, has finally opened a new beer joint in Auburn called World Pub. This is a small place with 14 seats at the bar and capacity of right about 45 people. Don’t let that fool you, however. With [...]

Mark, Jeff and I were once again happy to judge the 2009 California Brewers Festival beer competition over the weekend. The entries were a bit light in number and certainly could use some more entries from around the state, but the judging was very well organized by Head Judge and BJCP Grand Master David Teckam. [...]