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April 5
Las Vegas, Nevada
Rock ‘N Brew 4 at the Palms Casino Resort
More info: brewunlv.com
April 5–6
Atlantic City, New Journey
Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival
More info: Twitter #acbeerfest
April 6
Hayward, California
16th Annual IPA & Hop Rhizome festival. Over 70 beers on tap, competition, live music, BBQ, and rhizomes for sale
More info: the-bistro.com
April 13
Berkeley, California
11th Annual Firkin Fest at Triple Rock Brewery
More info: triplerock.com
April 13
Las Vegas, Nevada
Big Dog’s Brewing Peace, Love & Hoppy-ness beer and music festival
More info: peacelovehoppyness.com
April 13–20
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
4th Annual Milwaukee Beer Week
More info: milwaukeebeerweek.com
April 20
Martinez, California
Bay Area Craft Beer Festival
More info: bayareacraftbeerfestival.com
April 27
Las Vegas, Nevada
Motley Brews Great Vegas Festival of Beer at Sunset Park, with more than 200 craft beers
More info: greatvegasbeer.com
April 27–28
Leuven Belgium
ZFA (Zythos Beer Festival)
More info: zbf.be
May 3–4
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary International Beerfest
More info: calgarybeerfest.com
May 9–19
Seattle, Washington
Seattle Beer Week
More info: seattlebeerweek.com
May 11
Visalia, California
Visalia Craft Ber Festival
More info: visaliabeerfest.com
May 11
Las Vegas, Nevada
7th Annual Lee’s Beer Experience at the LVH (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton), with more than 300 hundred craft beer choices and 70 tequilas
More info: leesliquorlv.com
May 20–June 1
Nevada
Nevada Beer Weeks
More info: nevadabeerweeks.com
May 24–25
San Luis Obispo, California
The California Festival of Beers, one of the oldest beer festivals, to be held at the Madonna Inn
More info: californiafestivalofbeers.com
May 25–June 1
Ashville, North Carolina
2nd Annual Asheville Beer Week, culminating with the Beer City Festival on Saturday, June 1
More info: ashevillebeerweek.com
May 31–June 1
Boston, Massachusetts
6th Annual American Craft Beer Fest, sponsored by BeerAdvocate
More info: beeradvocate.com
May 31–June 9
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philly Beer Week
More info: phillybeerweek.org
June 1
Davis, California
9th Annual Davis BeerFest at Sudwerk Brewery
More info: davisbeerfest.org
June 1
Paso Robles, California
Firestone Walker’s second Invitational Beer Fest
More info: SOLD OUT
June 1
Las Vegas, Nevada
4th Annual Brews and Blues Festival at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve with more than 50 craft brews and local and regional blues bands
More info: vegasbrewsandblues.com
June 1
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
10th Annual World of Beer Festival
More info: wobfest.com
June 14–16
Redmond, Washington
Washington Brewers Festival
More info: washingtonbeer.com/festivals
June 22–23
Fort Collins, Colorado
24th Annual Colorado Brewers’ Festival
More info: downtownfortcollins.com
July 13
San Francisco, California
13th Annual BreastFest Beer Festival at Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion. $50 in advance, $60 at the door
More info: thebreastfest.org
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CURRENT CBN FEATURES
CBN'S BEER CAMP : SIERRA NEVADA
SIERRA NEVADA BREWERY, CHICO, CALIFORNIA
A session at the brewery’s pub-restaurant reveals the amazing variety of beers produced by Sierra Nevada. Always pushing the envelope with beer styles, the brewery also started a program of Beer Camps for industry people, homebrewers and various contest winners who were encouraged to learn about brewing by designing their own beer and then making it on the brewery’s 10-barrel pilot system.
Nearly 100 beer camps later, the brewery invited the Celebrator writing staff to brew the publication’s 25th anniversary beer. Click the link below to check out what transpired on our trip to the brewery!
» CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT BEER CAMP SIERRA NEVADA 2013 |
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BREWS CRUISE TO ALASKA 2013
SEPTEMBER 6–13, 2013
Celebrator publisher, Tom Dalldorf, will once again head up a large group of beer enthusiasts on one of Celebrity Cruises's newest and largest ships from Seattle to Alaska's Inside Passage, visiting glaciers, small fishing villages and Alaska's capital, Juneau.
Each day offers beer opportunities, with tutored tastings and seminars, beer dinners, visits to breweries and more. A highlight will be our visit to Victoria, B.C., with chartered bus tours of local craft breweries. We'd love to have you come sail away with us!
» CLICK FOR MORE INFO ON BREWS CRUISE 2013 |
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MICHAEL JACKSON REMEMBERED
IN MEMORIAM: 1942–2007
Michael Jackson and his chérie d’amour Carolyn Smagalski at a beer event in New York City a year before he passed away at home in London August 30, 2007. He was 65 years old. Michael was the first journalist to take the subject of beer
to an art form. His early work rhapsodized the pub culture
found in the great beer bars of England and heralded the existence
of the classic beers of the world.
To know beer is to read the works of Michael
Jackson.
» READ CAROLYN'S PIECE ON MICHAEL HERE
» VIEW THE CBN SPECIAL ON MICHAEL HERE |
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LAGUNITAS BEER CIRCUS 2012
Petaluma, CA
The 4th Annual Lagunitas Beer Circus took place Sunday, May 20, at the brewery grounds in Petaluma, Calif. The event had no problem selling out at $40 for general admission and $25 for designated driver. While the beer offerings were choice, it wasn’t about the large number of breweries pouring. It was about the circus!
Mind-bending, vaudeville-style acts took place, with live circus music providing the atmosphere. And ooh-la-la — the scantily clad burlesque dancers were a treat!
» VIEW PIX FROM THE 2012 BEER CIRCUS HERE
» VIEW PIX FROM THE 2011 BEER CIRCUS HERE |
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CRAFT BREWERS CONFERENCE 2012
San Diego, CA
Some 4,500 of the beer industry’s closest friends gathered for a group hug at this year’s Craft Brewers Conference, held May 2–5 at the Town & Country Hotel in San Diego.
Some 95 categories of beer were judged by an impressive list of the world’s foremost beer experts. The craft beer industry’s largest annual gathering got larger this year and shows no signs of anything but continued spectacular growth.
» VIEW OUR CBC 2012 STORY + PHOTOS HERE |
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CBN's 24TH ANNIVERSARY BASH
Trumer Brauerei, Berkeley, CA
 The Celebrator Beer News celebrated its 24th anniversary
on February 19, 2012, with a Brewer’s party at the Trumer Brauerei in Berkeley, California.
This was SF Beer Week 2012's Closing Event, where over
35 other breweries poured favorite brews as well. Guests met up with CBN writers and beer industry luminaries, including pioneering figures
in the craft beer movement.
In case you missed it, we put together a nifty video for you to enjoy. So, be our guest and check out the links below!
» CHECK OUT OUR ANNIVERSARY BASH VIDEO HERE
» CHECK OUR SF BEER WEEK STORY + PHOTOS HERE |
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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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CURRENT ONLINE
ISSUE » EDITORIAL
CRAFT BEER IS EXPANDING!
Tom Dalldorf
 Our craft beer world is expanding — and in a big way. The Brewers Association, the Boulder, Colo., group that puts on the Great American Beer Festival, the Craft Brewers Conference and quite a lot of other things beneficial to our industry, recently had to move the goal posts on what defines a “small” brewer from two million barrels of annual production to six million barrels. This was done to accommodate the increased production of some of our top producers. Boston Beer Company’s Samuel Adams should make it there first, but you never know with this rapidly expanding industry.
The world’s equipment producers are working feverishly to produce the tanks, kettles and related gear necessary for established and up-and-coming breweries to increase brewing capacity for a demand that never seems to be filled. Social media was recently atwitter with pictures of huge tanks on an oceangoing freighter — tanks destined for Sierra Nevada’s new location in Asheville, N.C. A similar sight will follow not far up the road at New Belgium’s new...
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