MoonBeam nearly puts an end to SCHF

[backhousebrew]

Interesting article about one of our new state laws
Good thing there are some homebrewers/lawyers on our side.
http://www.cvindependent.com/index.php/ ... -a-new-law

[maltbarley]

But did you see his shirt? That's an old pic and classic shirt.

[JonW]

But did you see his shirt? That's an old pic and classic shirt.

Cool! I didn't even notice that when I read it this morning.

[lexuschris]

SCHF 2014 has been cancelled.

With great sadness, the board of the California Homebrewers Association is announcing that there will not be a Southern California Homebrewers Festival in 2014. The nonprofit that wanted to have our event as a fundraiser has decided at the last minute that the sheer size of our event and short time frame were simply too much for the local chapter of their organization.

While we gear up for a full-fledged fight to change the legislation, the board would like you to know that we are planning several smaller tasting and brewing events throughout SoCal. As the events are confirmed, we will send you the information. That weekend is AHA's Big Brew Day and we will send out dates and times of those events as they are scheduled--tastings as well. We won’t forget you, and we don’t want you to forget us—we plan to have new law and Fest up and going for 2015.

For those of you with reservations at Lake Casitas, please cancel them as soon as possible to allow Casitas time to re-book the sites for other campers. We strongly urge all clubs to not consider taking homebrew to the park to have a mini-fest of your own Several clubs have discussed keeping their reservations on that weekend and we have discussed that possibility with Casitas. They have great concerns that having clubs take Fest-sized quantities of homebrew to the park is likely to be a problem in the making. We want to be welcomed back to Casitas for our 2015 event, not turned away because of any misbehavior of club members in the absence of an organized event. We would greatly appreciate the unified support of all clubs in this.

Stay tuned to http://www.calhomebrewers.org for details of great tasting events and Big Brew Days in Southern California on the weekend of May 2 , 3, & 4. And stay tuned to help us fight the new law that has re-defined and diminished our rights as homebrewers.

On behalf of the California Homebrewers Association Board of Directors,

Christy Elshof, President


Karsten V. Leone
Board of Directors, California Homebrewers Association
karsten@calhomebrewers.org
949-288-3296

... nice job Moonbeam ...
:p

[bwarbiany]