UPCOMING BEER EVENTS
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February 10–19
Northern California
SF Beer Week
More info: sfbeerweek.org
February 10
San Francisco, California
SF Beer Week Gala at the Concourse Exhibition Center
More info: sfbeerweek.org
February 11
Hayward, California
Double IPA Fest at The Bistro
More info: the-bistro.com
February 12
Seattle, Washington
4th Annual Pike Chocofest with beer and chocolate
More info: pikebrewing.com
February 15
San Francisco, California
Cheese & Beer Tasting at Rogue Public House
More info: rogue.com
February 17
Santa Cruz, California
The Twisted Tasting of Experimental and Unique Beers
More info: twistedtasting.eventbrite.com
February 18–25
San Francisco, California
Toronado Barley Wine Festival at the Toronado
More info: toronado.com
February 19
Berkeley, California
24th Annual Celebrator Brew Fest at Trumer Brauerei
More info: celebrator.com
February 24–March 4
Sacramento Region
Sacramento Beer Week
More info: sacbeerweek.com
March 10
Kailua Kona, Hawaii
17th Annual Kona Beer Festival
More info: konabrewersfestival.com
March 10
San Luis Obispo, California
SLO Xtreme Beer Festival
More info: slo-beer-fest.com
March 10—14
Seattle, Washington
Brouwer’s Café presents the Hard Liver Barleywine Fest
More info: hardliver.com
March 17
Fort Bragg, California
16th Annual Fort Bragg Beer Festival at the Old Historic Eagles Hall
More info: 707-964-3798
March 30
Santa Margarita, California
Firestone Walker and the historic Santa Margarita Ranch present ‘From the Barrel’ a tasting of whiskey, port and beer from the wood
More info: fromthebarrel.net
April 27–28
Silverton, Oregon
Oregon Garden Brewfest featuring handcrafted beers, food and music
More info: oregongardenbrewfest
June 9
Monterey, California
11th Annual Monterey Beer Festival at the Monterey Fairgrounds
More info: nightthatneverends.com
June 9
Paso Robles, California
Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest
More info: firestonebeerfest.com
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CURRENT CBN FEATURES
DANNY WILLIAMS
IN MEMORIAM : 1959–2012
 Sadness permeated the country’s beer community and beyond with the news that Danny Williams had passed away on the evening of January 23, 2012. Williams succumbed to cancer in his mountain home in Sunshine Canyon, near Boulder, Colorado. He was 52.
In his decade of work for the Brewers Association, Williams had the Herculean task of receiving and sorting the thousands of beer entries for the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup competitions.
In that role, Williams amassed a huge circle of friends. They included industry professionals from coast to coast and a loyal team of local beer enthusiasts who volunteered year after year to help sort beers for the competitions.
With his outgoing and upbeat demeanor, Williams defined the term likeable. A visit to his home was an unforgettable experience. His property includes a cavernous former gold mine that he retrofitted into a beer cellar as well as a former mill building that he converted into...
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VIEW DAN RABIN'S REMEMBRANCE OF DANNY HERE |
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GREAT AMERICAN BEER FESTIVAL 2011
DIARY OF A GABF ROOKIE | Article by Mike Pitsker
There were 248 medals awarded this year to some of the 526 breweries that submitted entries to this year's GABF. That is a phenomenal variety of beers to experience by any one-person's standards, so for this year's festival held in Denver, Colorado from September 29–October 1, 2011, we got CBN Associate Editor Mike Pitsker to give us the beer-to-beer insight from his experience at the festival. So, if you weren't able to attend this year's festivities, you're welcome to check
it out here!
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DAVID FARNWORTH
IN MEMORIAM : 1952–2011
 The craft beer culture — not only in Los Angeles but in the whole nation — lost an icon on October 28th when David Farnworth, pioneering co-owner and founder of the Lucky Baldwins pubs, passed away. He did so peacefully at home in Pasadena, surrounded by family and friends, after a lengthy and courageous battle with ALS disease. He was only 59 and is survived by his wife, Anne, beloved children John and Kate, and business partner Peggy Simonian.
Born September 27, 1952, in Carlisle, England, David played football (soccer, to you Yanks) in school. He later moved to South Africa, where he worked in engineering. He immigrated to the United States, chiefly the Southern California area, in 1980. While working at the British Tourist Board in Los Angeles years later, he met his future business partner, a fellow Brit named Peggy Simonian. Together they launched the idea of opening an authentic British pub, with real British ales on tap and cask, and with European football on the...
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VIEW TOMM CARROLL'S REMEMBRANCE OF DAVID HERE |
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BREWS CRUISE TO ALASKA 2011
BREWS CRUISE 2011 SETS NEW RECORD!
More than 80 beer enthusiasts answered the ads run in the Celebrator
Beer News for this year’s Brews Cruise to Alaska,
one of the largest turnouts since the inception of the cruise
almost 10 years ago.
Events during the cruise included a mini-festival with pourings
from local breweries which
celebrated local Seattle breweries, trips to numerous villages
and breweries located throughout Alaska and much more!
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THE LAGUNITAS BEER CIRCUS
LAGUNITAS BREWING CO., PETALUMA,
CA
The now-annual Lagunitas Beer Circus took place Sunday, May
22, 2011, at the Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, CA.
Hundreds turned out for this, um, unusual beer happening. Billed
as fun “Under the Big Top,” the event included several
burlesque acts, circus wonderments and much more!
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RAY DETER
IN MEMORIAM : 1957–2011
 He
was a bar guy. Unpretentious, smart, opinionated, obsessed with
good beer.He loved single malts too, and good tequila. But above
all, Ray Deter was warm, like the cypress wood music room that
made d.b.a. New Orleans so “hot.”
Ray’s passion for beer was personal, discovered in an
epiphany moment during his honeymoon many years ago. He had
married an English woman from Yorkshire, the same region that
sired British Beer Hunter
Michael Jackson.
All it took was “a picturesque canal, a bicycle and a
stop in an English pub” for romance to begin — romance
with cask-conditioned ales like none he had ever had.
But Ray’s journey ended in Lower Manhattan when a silver
Jaguar collided with his bicycle on Monday afternoon, June 27.
By Sunday, July 3, Ray met the Maker’s Mark.
Ray and Dennis Zentek opened d.b.a. in New York’s East
Village in 1994. Think The Ginger Man on East 36th, Brouwer’s
Café in Seattle or the Falling Rock in Denver. In 2000,
the two men launched...
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VIEW CAROLYN SMAGALSKI'S REMEMBRANCE OF RAY DETER HERE |
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CELEBRATOR'S
23RD ANNIVERSARY BASH
 The
Celebrator Beer News celebrated its 23rd anniversary
on February 20, 2011, with a Brewer’s party held at the
Trumer Brauerei in Berkeley, California. Over 30 breweries poured
favorite brews as CBN writers and beer industry luminaries,
including pioneering figures in the craft beer movement, mingled
with the public as they enjoyed the delicious...
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23RD ANNIVERSARY ARTICLE + PIX |
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CBN'S
ANNUAL BREWERS SWIMSUIT ISSUE 2011
 When
we first had the brilliant idea of doing a spoof on the annual
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue many years ago, we thought
it might run for one or two years. The idea was to get pictures
of brewers in swimsuits and brew boots in the brewhouse. Brewers,
being a creative lot, went off in a lot of different directions,
giving us a delightful portfolio of swimsuit-centric...
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CRAFT
BREWERS CONFERENCE 2011
 Over
4,000 craft beer industry professionals attended this year’s
Craft Brewers Conference. The CBC is held each year at a notable
beer city around the country. This was the second time the gathering
visited San Francisco. The Brewers Association in Boulder, Colo.,
responsible for organizing the event, had just released preliminary
statistics on the health of the...
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PIERRE CELIS
IN MEMORIAM : 1925–2011
 We,
in the beer business in the U.S., know Pierre Celis as the founder
of Celis Brewing in Austin, Texas and creator of Celis White.
His impact on me was major as I learned about Belgian beer from
him as a mentor. I'm sure many will write about Pierre and the
history of Wit/White beer. I want to write about Pierre as a
man and a friend.
We met many times in Austin, San Francisco, and on the road
during the 1990's and he even stayed with my wife and I at our
home. A generally quiet man with a good sense of humor, he encouraged
me to visit him in Belgium, but I had no time until 2000, when
I finally got to go to Belgium and he offered to be my guide.
Everywhere we went, people knew Pierre. Since we mostly stopped
at beer oriented places, I was kind of expecting that he would
be...
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VIEW PETE SLOSBERG'S FULL REMEMBRANCE OF PIERRE CELIS HERE
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DON YOUNGER
IN MEMORIAM : 1941–2011
 Don
Younger, famed publican extraordinaire and legendary beer evangelist,
died early Monday morning, January 31, 2011 of complications
from a fall a few days earlier. He was 69 years old.
Don was a “larger than life” character with an enormous
passion for beer, brewing and beer culture. He loved meeting
new people and spreading the word of good beer but eschewed
“phonies” and poseurs. He also eschewed people who
would say “eschewed.”
He was not a model for the healthy lifestyle preferring beer,
whisky (make it MCCALLAN 12 please, 18 if ya got it) and cigarettes
(Sprits will do) to more conventional comestibles. It is suggested
that both he and Patsy from the BBC's Absolutely Fabulous
had not had solid food since 1977. That is not true, of course,
but close...
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VIEW OUR REMEMBRANCE + PHOTOS OF DON YOUNGER HERE |
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ALASKA
BEER WEEK 2011
 The
15th edition of the Great Alaska Beer & Barley Wine Festival
was actually the grand finale for what is now Alaska Beer Week
in Anchorage. This year, dozens of events tantalized the thirsty
palates of local beer enthusiasts and taxed the capacities of
those wanting to attend more than a few events a day. The series
of beer-themed events incorporated existing...
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BEER
CAMP LAS VEGAS 2010
 It
all sounded so innocent. Well, as innocent as a trip to Las
Vegas can be. Put together a trip to Sin City with beer as the
agenda and hang it on a major beer festival. Sound good so far?
Thought so. Then the beer festival got canceled, and we had
to change the date. Tours and tastings at a few of the best
local breweries; lunch at the famous Hofbräuhaus; a tasting
talk...
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SANITY/FEAR
: A RALLY FOR BEER 2010
 Was
it a beer tasting? A political protest? A poetry reading? A
dinosaurs of rock concert? The October 29, 2010, tasting at
the Brickskeller in Washington, D.C., dubbed “Sanity/Fear:
A Rally for Beer,” was a little bit of each. Special guest
Tom Dalldorf (editor and publisher of the Celebrator
Beer News), visiting D.C. to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity
and/or Fear on the...
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EXCLUSIVE
CBN BREW INTERVIEW : KEN GROSSMAN
 On
September 3, 2010, CBN Publisher Tom Dalldorf interviewed
Ken Grossman, founder of the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company at
the brewery in Chico, California. Check out our in-depth interview
with Ken, which includes audio and video, by clicking the link
below. There's also a little extra video included you might
enjoy as well!
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CURRENT ONLINE
ISSUE » EDITORIAL
THAT WAS THE BEER YEAR THAT WAS
Tom Dalldorf
 Several years ago at the Craft Brewers Conference, Kim Jordan, cofounder and president of New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colo., suggested that craft beer might grow to be 10 percent of American beer production in the next 10 years. There were a few snickers of incredulity at the time. Today, it looks like Ms. Jordan might have even underestimated craft beer’s growth in the American beer market.
The Brewers Association and Symphony IRI Group, both of which track brewing industry statistics, reported dollar sales for craft beer being up 15 percent for the first half of 2011, meaning that craft beers are on pace to achieve their sixth consecutive year of double-digit dollar sales growth in supermarkets. The two organizations also announced that craft beer has, for the first time, reached a 10 percent dollar share of the overall beer category in supermarkets — nearly double what it was in 2005. The craft segment seems destined to reach 10% overall market share sooner rather than...
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