http://www.zuvaruvi.com It's all about the beer! Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:19:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dates for the 2010 San Diego International Beer Festival have been set. Mark your calendar, over 300 beers from around the world, beer/food pairing, and roller derby (yes, you read that right, Roller Derby!!) will be featured: June 25th - noon-4p June 26th - 11a-3p and 4p-8p June 27th - 1p-5p That's right, ... http://www.zuvaruvi.com/2009/10/24/2010-sd-international-beer-festival-dates-set/ The San Diego International Beer Festival Best of Show was announced Friday June 26th at the festival. Jeff Bagby of Pizza Port – Carlsbad took BOS with Good Grief Brown Ale. Congratulations to Jeff and the entire staff at Pizza Port. With a free festival photo booth, food-pairing classes ... http://www.zuvaruvi.com/2009/06/27/a-pictures-worth-a-thousand-words/ THE List! - 2009 San Diego International Beer Festival Friday June 26th 4-8:00 p.m. & Saturday June 27th noon-7:00 p.m. Only at the San Diego County Fair! 20 States 20 Countries 117 Breweries 311 Beers, Meads, & Ciders! Abita Brewing Co. – Andygator Turbodog Jockamo IPA Purple Haze Airdale Brewing – Dark & Stormy Horizon Altitude Afterburner Alaskan Brewing Co. – Summer Amber IPA AleSmith – Wee Heavy IPA Horny Devil Old Numbskull Allagash Brewing Co. ... http://www.zuvaruvi.com/2009/06/13/2009-ibf-fest-list/ Results for the 2009 San Diego International Beer Festival are in! 60 certified judges and professional brewers sampled 524 entries on May 9th at the San Diego County Fair Grounds in Del Mar. The Best of Show winner will be announced at the San Diego International Beer Festival ... http://www.zuvaruvi.com/2009/05/22/2009-ibf-results-are-in/ The 2009 American Homebrewers Association national conference in Oakland is sure to be memorable. I wrote a few weeks ago about one of the commemorative beers, Brother Levonian Saison. It will be available through the conference and the Michael Jackson rare beer club in 750’s. The other ... http://www.zuvaruvi.com/2009/04/28/sippin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay-ipa/ April 8th I went to O’Brien’s. Vince from Pizza Port was making pizzas in the pizza wagon. Tom had some very interesting Italian Beers on…glad I tried them all! First was Birrificio di Como Malthus Birolla. It had a ‘naturally inoculated’ funk; a flavor and aroma not for ... http://www.zuvaruvi.com/2009/04/18/obriens-italian-beer-night/ Dave was my best friend. He liked to drink and brew Saison’s. After several attempts on my own, he got me going on the right path. This is a recipe he helped me with on August 31, 2005. It took a second and first in America’s ... http://www.zuvaruvi.com/2009/04/04/brother-levonian-saison-2/ Jamil Z. talked my buddy Harold and me into coordinating the commemorative beers for the AHA National Convention in Oakland this year. Did I say talked us into? I guess he drank me into it. It didn’t come up in conversation until he had four or five ... http://www.zuvaruvi.com/2009/04/01/brother-levonian-saison/ Took a trip to Plattsburg, NY a few years back. Stayed in a hotel with a brewpub. Didn’t know it was there, just lucked out…one of those zuvaruvi coincidences. The owner let me help tinker with a couple recipes. Their “Three Nut Brown” was pretty tasty; ... http://www.zuvaruvi.com/2009/03/28/beer-goddess-american-brown%e2%80%a6or-is-it-american-brown-beer-goddess/ Good news today! Received word from a distributor that they will be providing a wonderful selection of Belgian beers for this year’s IBF. Distributors are the unsung heroes of the beer world. Chances are, unless you are sitting in the brewery where it was brewed, or you ... http://www.zuvaruvi.com/2009/03/26/hello-world/