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August 15–16
Bend, Oregon
5th Annual Bend Brew Fest
More info: bendbrewfest.com
August 16–24
Pasadena, California
9th Annual Belgian Beer Festival at Lucky
Baldwins
More info: luckybaldwins.com
August 16
Guernville, California
Russian River Revival & BBQ Cook-Off
More info: 707-869-8169
August 16
San Marcos, California
12th Stone Brewery Invitational Beer Fest
and Anniversary Celebration at the CSUSM campus
More info: stonebrew.com
August 22–29
Seattle, Washington
Brews Cruise to Alaska with Celebrator
Publisher Tom Dalldorf
More info: celebrator.com
August 23
Grass Valley, California
19th Annual Sierra Brewfest at Nevada County
Fairgrounds
More info: sierrabrewfest.org
August 23
Fortuna, California
Hops in Humboldt Beer Festival
More info: hopsinhumboldt.com
August 29–31
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah Craft Brew Fest
More info: 912-644-6452 or email
here
September 5–6
Victoria, B.C.
Great Canadian Beer Festival
More info: gcbf.com
September 12–13
Seattle, Washington
2nd Annual Washington Oktoberfest at Pyramid
Alehouse
More info: washingtonbeer.com
September 12–14
Telluride, Colorado
15th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
More info: tellurideblues.com
September 19–21
Seattle, Washington
Fremont Oktoberfest
More info: fremontoktoberfest.com
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BROUWERIJ RODENBACH – MASTERPIECE
OF ROESELARE
 The
Rodenbach site — a 15-minute walk from the train station
in the town of Roeselare, near Brugge — is a complex
of ancient and modern buildings with various purposes. Rodenbach
is one of the most impressive breweries I have had ever the
pleasure to visit. In late May, Brewmaster Rudi Ghequire greeted
me and two friends — including Daisy Claeys, owner of...
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BEER NEWS TURNS 20!
 Celebrator's
20th anniversary party went off without a hitch. The beer
drinkers came, they saw, they drank. With over 150 great beers
from over 40 brewers that served at the Marriott Hotel's Convention
Center in Oakland, California, our Mardi Gras themed celebration
for our milestone anniversary was our wildest party yet. Be
sure to check out our Anniversary Special!
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JACKSON TRIBUTE HELD AT UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA  A
Tribute to the late Michael Jackson was held Friday, March
14, 2008, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology
and Archeology, where Michael hosted a series of tutored tastings
for the past 18 years.
The tutored tastings were held Saturday, March 15, with three
sessions of 360 beer lovers each.
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BENEDICT XVI FINDS THE HOLY GRAIL!  When
meeting the Pope it is customary to offer him a gift. Tony
Blair gave him a painting of the Catholic convert Cardinal
Newman and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah presented him
with a jeweled scimitar. When the Archbishop of York, Dr.
John Sentamu, met the pontiff he gave him the Holy Grail,
a beer brewed by the Black Sheep Brewery located in Masham,
England.
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ISSUE » ARTICLES GREAT
AMERICAN BEER FESTIVAL 2007
Inside America's Premier Beer Olympics
 The
2007 Great American Beer Festival, held annually in Denver,
Colo., saw record crowds and sold-out sessions over the three-day
run of October 11–13. Some 107 judges evaluated nearly
2,800 beers, resulting in one of the most competitive GABF
blind panel judgings...
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VICTORIA
: EPICUREAN GEM OF THE NORTHWEST
The
Great Canadian Beer Festival Recapped  Victoria
is a delightful English-inspired city of historic structures
(the Empress Hotel, the Parliament building) situated around
an inner harbor bustling with ferries, harbor taxis and other
maritime traffic. Floatplanes do their elegant aerial ballet
to and from nearby...
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DIXIE
BREWERY AT 100
Post Katrina
Brewery Struggles for Survival  What
nature doesn't do to us will be done by our fellow man. The
venerable Dixie Brewery is still standing after the horrendous
force of a Category 5 hurricane — but barely. After
the rains and wind subsided and the waters receded, the scavengers
moved in to...
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NBWA
CONVENTION & TRADE SHOW
Craft
Beer Takes Center Stage  The
70th annual National Beer Wholesalers Association Convention
and Trade Show convened in Las Vegas from September 30 through
October 3 and attracted a record number of industry representatives
— more than 3,800. The convention offered a chance for...
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AN AUTHENTIC
THANKSGIVING BEER DINNER
The
History of Thanksgiving and Beer (Recipes Included)
 No
meal is more quintessentially American than Thanksgiving dinner,
not just for the seminal historical event it commemorates
— the founding of the Pilgrims’ colony at Plymouth,
near Cape Cod, Mass., in December 1620 — but also for
its ingredients...
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ISSUE » EDITORIAL
CALIFORNIA'S TAX MAN COMETH — BREWERS BEWARE!
Tom Dalldorf
 California’s
Board of Equalization (the state tax authority) has mandated
that flavored malt beverages (FMBs) (Smirnoff Ice, Mike’s
Hard Lemonade, etc.) masquerading as “beer” are
derived in part from “distillate flavorings” and
thus should be taxed like distilled spirits (80+ proof alcohol).
Brilliant. While they were at it, they also figured, in their
nonscientific little minds, that beer must be spirits too
and consequently will be taxed as...
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