Santa Barbeerians

Hey group,Have you had enough of these emails yet with no attachments? Apparently we have been hacked by our brethren from the south who are determined to squelch the news:

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sorry for the repeated email, some people did not get an attachment.

Here is the Newsletter.  Just open the PDF.

Cheers Silvy

OK, it is official, we are going to have the "Surfliner Challenge" with the Maltose Falcons this coming Saturday starting at 3 PM at the Mercury Lounge in Goleta. We'll be sending our best three Imperial Stouts against their best three, may the best beer win! Dawn at the Mercury has graciously offered to open early for us and is allowing us to BBQ there too, so bring some food to grill and share. Since we'll have the place to ourselves, feel free to invite friends and give her some good business too, this is going to be the best non-club mtg "beer alert" of the year.

Just want to let everyone know we are still waiting for a response from the Falcons about the judging date for the Surfrider Challenge. We're still hoping to have it at the Mercury, Dawn has already graciously agreed to host us there and we can even have a BBQ! This would be next Saturday, Aug 28th.

This is in a real stuffed, once live, animal.http://www.asylum.com/2010/07/22/its-the-worlds-strongest-most-expensive-beer-inside-a-squi/

If you think that Matthew Chrestenson, a co-owner with his brother Ben of the recently opened Union Ale Brewing Company, has been a geeky hophead all his life, you'd think wrong. At a meeting one quiet Sunday morning during the establishment's soft opening, Chrestenson related, "I absolutely did not drink beer. I was used to shitty beer my whole life; even my brother, who was a beer drinker, drank crappy beer." Things were to change dramatically, for he said, "About a month-and-a-half before we were to open, I started sampling, and now when I taste wine, it's not that exciting to me."

It’s fitting that a place known for its giraffes might stick its neck out for a fundraiser, and that’s exactly what the Santa Barbara Zoo is doing with its first Zoo Brew on Saturday, June 5. “The notion of a Zoo Brew and ‘Saving Wildlife’ is something a number of zoos across the nation have done before,” explained Rich Block, the zoo’s CEO. “In the zoo community, we don’t treat things as proprietary; good ideas are treated as good ideas and pretty much shared. Certainly a wine tasting is nothing new in this area, but we thought a beer tasting just might be.”