Southern California Homebrewers Festival

[betarhoalphadelta]

Can't wait... Still not sure what beer I'm bringing, though... I don't know if my Gose will turn out okay or not given some issues I had with sour mashing... Hoping to keg it this weekend and find out

Look for me and JonW over at the brewcommune booth if you're around

 

[artyusmc]

Hey guys, this will be our first year going to SCHF. So far have we have 120 gallons ready to go.

Questions about the booth set up. When do the clubs start setting up their booth? Can we drive into the festival area to drop off the beer?

Thanks!

He'll yeah!

 

[artyusmc]

Can't wait... Still not sure what beer I'm bringing, though... I don't know if my Gose will turn out okay or not given some issues I had with sour mashing... Hoping to keg it this weekend and find out

Look for me and JonW over at the brewcommune booth if you're around

See you there I'll have 2 pilsner and a 80 schilling

 

[madcowbrewing]

BEAVR will be there in force this year. Carrying two ciders plus a hop centralized beer portion. Look for our custom made bar top.

 

[deaton83]

I have a 100% Brett Stout, 3x detoction belgain at 12.8%, and a sour I will be providing. Come by The Big Brew Theory booth for a taste. We will be rotating taps all day.

 

[artyusmc]

I have a 100% Brett Stout, 3x detoction belgain at 12.8%, and a sour I will be providing. Come by The Big Brew Theory booth for a taste. We will be rotating taps all day.

Nice!

 

[berebrando]

BrewTech!!!

We built this:::







I'm bringing:
1 cab barrel aged saison
2 dry hopped cab barrel aged saison
3 cab barrel aged saison with apricot
4 Brett b golden ale
5 Brett c golden ale
6 Brett b Trois golden ale
7 Brett l golden ale
8 all Brett pale ale
9 rye saison
10 rye IPA
11 pale wheat

 

[LabRatBrewer]

BrewTech!!!

We built this:::

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I'm bringing:
1 cab barrel aged saison
2 dry hopped cab barrel aged saison
3 cab barrel aged saison with apricot
4 Brett b golden ale
5 Brett c golden ale
6 Brett b Trois golden ale
7 Brett l golden ale
8 all Brett pale ale
9 rye saison
10 rye IPA
11 pale wheat

very Nice!!

 

[artyusmc]

BrewTech!!!

We built this:::

I'm bringing:
1 cab barrel aged saison
2 dry hopped cab barrel aged saison
3 cab barrel aged saison with apricot
4 Brett b golden ale
5 Brett c golden ale
6 Brett b Trois golden ale
7 Brett l golden ale
8 all Brett pale ale
9 rye saison
10 rye IPA
11 pale wheat

Nice!

 

[JonW]

One week from today I'll be kicking back in my easy chair at the campground, drinking a homebrew and waiting for all the other home brewers to arrive!

 

[LabRatBrewer]

One week from today I'll be kicking back in my easy chair at the campground, drinking a homebrew and waiting for all the other home brewers to arrive!

I'll be parked at the gate Thursday morning waiting for the ranger to open.

 

[JonW]

I'll be parked at the gate Thursday morning waiting for the ranger to open.

Cool, that means we'll come drink your beer first! We probably won't roll in until after lunch.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

You people arriving on Thursday are making me jealous. I'm in negotiations with the wife and might not arrive until first thing Saturday morning now :-(

 

[JonW]

You people arriving on Thursday are making me jealous. I'm in negotiations with the wife and might not arrive until first thing Saturday morning now :-(

Brad - last year was the first time we went up on Thursday and we liked it so much we made plans this year for it too! Seriously, it's nice and relaxing on Thursday and then Friday is cool to just kick back and watch everyone else arrive and setup while you're already done. Plus it gives us an extra day to smoke more meat. Brian is bring the smoker again.

 

[MrOCT31]

Lovin' Fest! This will be my 13th straight year and by buddies 16th! We arrive early Friday to get the party started. Look for the Brew Donkeys banners in campground F this year. We'll have about 10-12 kegs so come on by and say hi and hell...drink some beer! :rockin:

 

[artyusmc]

Lovin' Fest! This will be my 13th straight year and by buddies 16th! We arrive early Friday to get the party started. Look for the Brew Donkeys banners in campground F this year. We'll have about 10-12 kegs so come on by and say hi and hell...drink some beer! :rockin:

Ill be at my first cant wait!

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Brad - last year was the first time we went up on Thursday and we liked it so much we made plans this year for it too! Seriously, it's nice and relaxing on Thursday and then Friday is cool to just kick back and watch everyone else arrive and setup while you're already done. Plus it gives us an extra day to smoke more meat. Brian is bring the smoker again.

Not helping the jealousy, Jon...

 

[artyusmc]

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Pics from the brewcommune folks here: https://plus.google.com/photos/1152...ms/5874542468758504609?authkey=CP3_mOH11sCoIA

 

[Phunhog]

I got sent to two different fires and missed the whole festival this year!! My buddies said they had a great time!!

 

[unionrdr]

Nice pics.That's quite an even you guys have down there.

 

[jbaysurfer]

JonW. I was looking for "surf city" booth at the fest, because I've been obsessing over your brew stand the last couple weeks and was going to pick your brain...but now I realize you were Brewcommune!

I was impressed with you guy's beers Good clean beer. Thanks for sharing!

Ours was the rinky dinkiest booth in the whole place...but we had great beer. In fact, we WON the B.R.O. Competition with our barrel aged project.

Santa Barbeerians.

Brew Tech, we we're right next to you guys in the C loop. I your tap stand/chalkboard was badass, and so was the A-Team van that one of your members was driving!

I'm sure I met many of you. Fun time was had by all. Here was my experience last year:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/so...ewers-festival-324970/index2.html#post4072248

...so I'm stoked it worked out the way it did this year for me.

 

[JonW]

JonW. I was looking for "surf city" booth at the fest, because I've been obsessing over your brew stand the last couple weeks and was going to pick your brain...but now I realize you were Brewcommune!

I was impressed with you guy's beers Good clean beer. Thanks for sharing!

Ours was the rinky dinkiest booth in the whole place...but we had great beer. In fact, we WON the B.R.O. Competition with our barrel aged project.

I wish we were able to meet - I love talking brew rigs and all. Congrats on the "Bragging Rights" beer. That's a nice honor to have.

 

[jbaysurfer]

I wish we were able to meet - I love talking brew rigs and all. Congrats on the "Bragging Rights" beer. That's a nice honor to have.

I bet anything we did meet. I'm fairly non-descript, but was wearing a Jackson Hole T-shirt and a white brimmed hat with a barbeerians sticker on it. Yeah, our club didn't have much in the way of a slick booth, but winning the BRO gave us a nice morale boost. The delicious, copious, free beer didn't hurt either.

I heard some people say that the turnout wasn't quite as large as expected, but this was my first festival, so I had nothing to compare it too.

 

[JonW]

I'm fairly non-descript

LOL - most of us there are average white guys... I'm in pic #10 in Bwarbiany's link a few posts back. Hawaiin shirt and black cap that says SRT. (no, I'm not trying to look down her shirt in the pic).

 

[berebrando]

Brew Tech, we we're right next to you guys in the C loop. I your tap stand/chalkboard was badass, and so was the A-Team van that one of your members was driving!

I'm sure I met many of you.

Jbaysurfer! Thanks for the props on my tap wall. It worked out really well. The only problem was that, with 44 kegs, we were only able to keep 17 on tap... There's always next year.

I had a blast meeting everyone and trying out all the wild and sour ales... I basically walked from tent to tent looking for anything with Brett or sour. Most clubs had at least one! Also lots of good saisons.

Cheers!

 

[jbaysurfer]

Jbaysurfer! Thanks for the props on my tap wall. It worked out really well. The only problem was that, with 44 kegs, we were only able to keep 17 on tap... There's always next year.

I had a blast meeting everyone and trying out all the wild and sour ales... I basically walked from tent to tent looking for anything with Brett or sour. Most clubs had at least one! Also lots of good saisons.

Cheers!

I agree, the sours were fantastic. The highlight of the festival IMHO (well, the cute girls too!). So many homebrewers making great sour beers. I wish I could've tried some of the other BRO competition entries, although I may have without realizing it....


JonW, I know I met the guy behind you in the straw hat, so maybe we didn't get to chat. That pic was very close to our booth though. We were just to your left.