It's time again for Humboldt County's best beer festival, The Humboldt Homebrewers Festival. Last year we had over 25 Brewers serving more than 30 homemade beers! With live music, great food and amazing one of kind beer. The event was the perfect venue for local homebrewers to showcase their skills and beer lovers to celebrate their craft. The Humboldt HomeBrew Festival is the major fundraiser for NorthCoast Engineers Without Borders. Proceeds assist in the development of international humanitarian projects.Our current projects are based in Camoapa, Nicaragua, the Arcata Sister-City. There is a both a bottle competition (judging will be before the festival) and a peoples choice competition which will take place at the festival. Bottle competition drop off sites will be at "Blondies" in Arcata and "Myrtle Town Liquors" in Eureka. The cut-off date will be March 30th 4pm Sharp!. ONLY 2 BOTTLES WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE BOTTLE COMP. ***THIS EVENT IS A PRIVATE, INVITATION ONLY EVENT *** ADMITTANCE WITH CONFIRMED RSVP ONLY **IF YOU HAVE PERSONALLY RECIEVED AN INVITATION TO THIS EVENT YOU NEED TO RSVP.BE SURE TO REGISTER ASAP - SPACE IS LIMITED** The Humboldt HomeBrew Festival is now an entirely private “by invitation only event”. Please find more information regarding the festival guidelines here. For information about admittance into the event please contact us at: info@humboldthomebrewfest.com. For more info goto: http://www.humboldthomebrewfest.com/

CONGRATS TO JAMIE ASHDON FOR HAVING HIS AMERICAN STOUT SELECTED AS OUR FIRST 'AHA CLUB COMPETITION' BEER!  The general meeting for March will be held on THURSDAY March, 1st from 7-9pm. Our meetings are held at Arcata Millworks in the Bracut Industrial Park on the west side of HWY 101 (just south of the Bayside Cut-off) The style focus for this months meeting is “Stouts.” We will be judging club entries for the March AHA "club only competition." Please feel free to bring homebrew to share, a tasting glass and a chair. If you do not have home brew, we will also sample commercial stouts. See you there! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Competition details from the AHA website:

March/April 2012

Stout it Out Loud!

Entries are due March 17, 2012 and judging will be held March 24, 2012. Entry fee is $7. Make checks payable to American Homebrewers Association. Entry Shipping: RHBC c/o Rockyard Brewing Company 880 Castleton Road Castle Rock, CO 80109-7512 (303) 814-9273 All entries must be shipped to the address above; they are not accepting walk-in drop-offs. Hosted by Kelly Kruegel and the Rock Hoppers club of Parker, CO, this competition covers BJCP category 13. For more information, contact Kelly Kruegel at kruegel.kelly@gmail.com.

The general meeting for February will be held on THURSDAY February, 2nd from 7-9pm. Our meetings are held at Arcata Millworks in the Bracut Industrial Park on the west side of HWY 101 (just south of the Bayside Cut-off) The style focus for this months meeting is “Dark Lagers.” Please feel free to bring homebrew to share, a tasting glass and a chair. If you do not have home brew, we will also sample commercial dark lagers. See you there!

Come one, Come all to the 1st annual Humboldt Homebrewer's Holiday party. The event will be held on January 7th, 7pm at the Blue Lake Volunteer Firehall. Please bring homebrew, kegs, growlers and bottles are welcome as well as a potluck dish. We will be holding a homebrew competition that requires the entries to be in by 7:30 sharp. The Homebrew comp. is a $3 entry fee. We are also holding a club fundraiser with a silent auction. If you have any donations, no matter how little, please bring them in. Hope to see you there. Parking will be at Perigot park

The general meeting for December will be held on THURSDAY December, 1st from 7-9pm. Our meetings are held at Arcata Millworks in the Bracut Industrial Park on the west side of HWY 101 (just south of the Bayside Cut-off) The style focus for this months meeting is "Holiday Beers." Please feel free to bring homebrew to share, a tasting glass and a chair. If you do not have homebrew, we will also sample commercial holiday beers. See you there!

Humboldt Homebrewers Club member Ari Friedman will be hosting this months Blind Tasting. It will be on Friday, December 2nd at 7:00pm. Ari Lives in Arcata at 3260 Zelia Ct. This month we will be tasting Old Ales, English Barleywines and American Barleywines. Please bring a bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag for secrecy. Bringing food will be appreciated.

During our 2011 Club "Learn to Homebrew Day", held at Blue BLossom Farm, the Times Standard Newspaper came out to hang out with us. Read the full article at: http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_19280828