Another Road Trip!

We hope to get a good night's sleep this coming Sunday, because the next day we leave for Oakland, CA, site of this year's AHA National Homebrewers Conference. We're getting there a couple of days early, so that we can bumble around San Francisco on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, we are fortunate enough to get a tour of the Anchor Brewery, after which we will continue on a beery tour of Frisco. Gotta visit Toronado, and have dinner at Magnolia, home of the wonderful Blue Bell Bitter. Wednesday will be a day for exploring the gardens of Golden Gate park, and resting up our quivering livers a bit. Then it's Game On at the conference, 3 days of Total Beer Immersion. OK, it's not that different from our daily routine, except that we will be doing it with hundreds of our far-flung fellow beer nerds, many of whom we only see at this annual hootenanny. There will be vast amounts of homebrew, commercial beer, 3 tracks of presentations on various aspects of beermaking and related topics, exuberant displays of creativity, and vast amounts of homebrew. Oh, yeah, snappy dressers, too...






You get the idea....