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Fermentation Films: A Recap

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The Twitterverse was abuzz this morning, and the rest of the day, with a clever little game of substituting a beer term for a word in a movie title to come up with what the hashtag termed a “Fermentation Film.” Usually it’s the adult film world that has the best titles, but there were some pretty clever ones thrown down today by a wide range of people. As far as I can tell, it began around 3:00 p.m. in Great Britain (7:00 A.M. Pacific), before migrating across the pond to the United States. The flurry went on for far longer than any hashtag I’ve ever seen that wasn’t event-based. For nearly ten hours, the beerified film titles kept coming, finally slowing down by the end of the work day, California time.

Below is a list of all of the Fermentation Films tweeted with the hashtag #fermentationfilms, along with the person who came up with it first. I worked backwards, so if you tweeted one and there’s a different name next to it, then your tweet was not the first one with that title. The winner of most duplicated has to be “Yeast of Eden.” I think I saw a dozen of those. I kicked out the duplicates, along with a few that were too close, and also didn’t include a few that either were actual film titles or ones that in my admittedly questionable judgement I didn’t understand or didn’t find worthy. That still left a staggering 440 455 fermentation film titles. [Update: I promised myself I wouldn’t go back, but there were a few new ones I couldn’t bear to leave out, so I updated it. The list is now current through September 26 at 11:00 AM PDT.] There’s a few that still make me laugh out loud and a few that made me groan, but they’re all pretty entertaining. Enjoy.

  1. Acetaldehyde Ventura, Pet Deconcotion (beerblog)
  2. Acetobacter The Future (ctrl-malt-delete)
  3. Ale Dogs Go To Heaven (Collin Simula)
  4. Ale of Despereaux (HomeBrewing.com)
  5. Ale Rider (infamous rascal)
  6. All Quiet on the Secondary Fermentation (All About Beer)
  7. All the Brewmasters Men (Chris Heier)
  8. Alpha Grog (BillF)
  9. An Altbier to Remember (Bull City Homebrew)
  10. American Brewty (Sierra Nevada Beer)
  11. The Andromeda Strain (Sid Boggle)
  12. The Angelic Fermentation (Adam Vavrick)
  13. Annie Hallertau (Brookston)
  14. Any Given Krausen (Armando Garcia)
  15. Anything Gose (Brad C.)
  16. Apocalypse Brau (Meredith Whitfield)
  17. Apollo 13%AA (Chris Heier)
  18. Apple Pulp Fiction (Kevin Bagshaw)
  19. Arsenic and Belgian Lace (Jessica Vander Velde)
  20. Arsenic and Old Lacing (Lisa Grimm)
  21. The Attenuation Commandments (Simon H Johnson)
  22. The Autolysis Strikes Back (Chris Heier)
  23. Backdraught (JP)
  24. Ballast Point Blank (Abe Froman)
  25. The Bamberg Club (Lisa Grimm)
  26. Barley and Friends (Ramblin’ Road)
  27. Barley and Me (Beer n’ Loathing)
  28. Barley and the Beast (Beer Kristine)
  29. Barley Legal (StarCitySuds)
  30. Bar Trek (Eclecticmess)
  31. Bar Wars (Cloten)
  32. Battlestar Malolactica (Beerburgersbees)
  33. Beauty and the Yeast (Andy Parker)
  34. Beer and Loathing in Las Vegas (Brooklyn Pour)
  35. Beetlegueuze! (The Beer Jesus)
  36. The Big Chelan (Beer Kristine)
  37. Big Fat Gypsum Wedding (Beerburgerbees)
  38. The Big Lebrewski (Jon Page)
  39. Big Trub In Little China (Alistair Reece)
  40. Black Hop Down (Mike Sawicki)
  41. Bock, Scotch and Two Smoking Rauchbiers (Chris Heier)
  42. Bock to the Future (Bill Benedict)
  43. Bock Trouble in Little China (Lisa Grimm)
  44. Bond, Lovibond (Brookston)
  45. Bottleship (Marshal Jhakov)
  46. Boys in the Mt. Hood (Beer Kristine)
  47. Bravehop (Justin Stewart)
  48. Breakfast Stout at Tiffany’s (Bruce_F)
  49. The Breakfast Trub (Sid Boggle)
  50. The Brett-fast Club (Beer Kristine)
  51. Brett First at Tiffany’s (James Campbell)
  52. Brew Day Afternoon (John Williams)
  53. BrewDog Day Afternoon (Dave Morton)
  54. BrewDog Millionaire (Oscar)
  55. Brewer’s Millions (paramnesiac)
  56. Brew Lagoon (Tim Bluhm)
  57. The Brews Brothers (Kevin Bagshaw)
  58. Brewstand by Me (Brad Nixon)
  59. Brewster Cogburn (Martyn Cornell)
  60. Brewsters Billions (Cloten)
  61. Brewty and the Yeast (Joshua Adams)
  62. Bride of Firkinstein (Beer n’ Loathing)
  63. Brite Tank, Big City (Steve)
  64. Broadcast Brews (Citra Loves Sorachi)
  65. A Brux Tale (Tommy Kelley)
  66. The Bucket Grist (Pierre Lachaine)
  67. The Buy Centennial Man (ctrl-malt-delete)
  68. Cantillon up the Khyber (Denzil Vallance)
  69. Cape Beer (Alicia Coulter)
  70. The Carboy in the Plastic Bubble (BevacquaFan)
  71. Carboy Wash (Jeremy Teel)
  72. Carboys Don’t Cry (Joel Kennedy)
  73. Carboys in the Hood (HomeBrewing.com)
  74. Carboyz N Tha Hood (Steve)
  75. Cassavablanca (Dave Morton)
  76. Casualties of Wort (Ethan)
  77. Catcher in the Rye Malt (Alicia Coulter)
  78. Centennial Man (Adam Vavrick)
  79. Charlie Wilson’s Wort (HomeBrewing.com)
  80. Chasing Amylase (Spencer O’Bryan)
  81. Children of a Lesser Quad (Jeremy Danner)
  82. Children of the Barley (Gary Valentine)
  83. Chill Hazed and Confused (Kevin Kozlen)
  84. Chocolat Malt (Lonerider ATL)
  85. Citizen Racking Kane (Brad Nixon)
  86. Citizen Strain (Sid Boggle)
  87. Citramancer (Adam Vavrick)
  88. A Citra Named Desire (BOAB Brewhaus)
  89. City Slicker II: The Legend of Brewer’s Gold (Mike Sawicki)
  90. Clan of the Cave Beer (hashtag_ninja)
  91. Clash of the Titan IPA’s (Matthew McGavic)
  92. Clear and Present Pilsner (James Laska)
  93. A ClockWit Orange (Texas Brewnette)
  94. A Clockwork Oranjeboom (mark pitsch)
  95. A Clockwort Orange (Oscar)
  96. Coal Miner’s Lauter (Jack Highberger)
  97. Conan the Beerbarian (Boozy Beggar (Seth))
  98. The Conicals of Riddick (ctrl-malt-delete)
  99. Cool Ship Luke (Mike Tinker)
  100. The Cylindroconicals of Narnia (ctrl-malt-delete)
  101. Dances with Worts (All About Beer)
  102. Dark Crystal (Dominic Driscoll)
  103. Dark Lord Knight Rises! (Indy Brew Chef)
  104. Das Boil (Alistair Reece)
  105. Das Reinheitsgebot (StarCitySuds)
  106. Das Wort (Jeremy Teel)
  107. Dead Barm (Phil Mellows)
  108. Death Of A Saaz-Man (Craft Beer Monger)
  109. Debbie Does Decoction (Kevin Kozlen)
  110. Debbie Does Diacetyl (Luke Otter)
  111. Debbie Does Dunkelweizen (Armando Garcia)
  112. The Debittered Black Knight (Austin B Harvey)
  113. Decoction Haunted Hill (ctrl-malt-delete)
  114. Diacetyl Another Day (ctrl-malt-delete)
  115. Dial M for Malt (Brow_Down)
  116. Dieacetyl Hard (Mike McGuigan)
  117. The Dirty Krausen (Citra Loves Sorachi)
  118. Dogfish Head Afternoon (mark pitsch)
  119. Don’t Tell Mom the Brewmasters Dead (Marc Rea)
  120. Don’t Tell Mom The Baby Citra’s Dead (ctrl-malt-delete)
  121. Double Diamonds Are Forever (Brookston)
  122. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hop Bomb (Brookston)
  123. Dry Hop (Chris Johnson)
  124. Dry Hop 2 (Chris Johnson)
  125. Dry Hop With A Vengeance (Chris Johnson)
  126. Dry Hop 4: Live Free or Dry Hop (Chris Johnson)
  127. Dubbel Impact (New Belgium Brewing)
  128. Duck Rabbit Soup (Meredith Whitfield)
  129. Dude, Where’s My Caramel Malt? (kortney)
  130. Easy Radler (Richard Hamilton)
  131. Edward Saazerhands (Jeremy Danner)
  132. 8 Gyle (ctrl-malt-delete)
  133. Eis Age (Jeff Merriman)
  134. Eisbock to the Future (Dave Morton)
  135. Empire of the Tun (Tucker Craig)
  136. The Empire Strikes Bock (Nick)
  137. Endless Summerfest (Dave Mulligan)
  138. The English Papazian (Chris Heier)
  139. Enter the Flagon (Robert Norman)
  140. Eraserheadretention (Russ)
  141. Ernest Goes to Beer Camp (Kevin Kozlen)
  142. Falconers Flight of the Phoenix (Bob Weden)
  143. Fantastic Vorlauf (ctrl-malt-delete)
  144. The Fast and The Furious [Surly Brewing] (Isaac Sparling)
  145. Fatal Attenuation (Citra Loves Sorachi)
  146. The Faucet Shank Redemption (Brad Nixon)
  147. Fermenting Nemo (Abe Froman)
  148. The Ferminator (Christopher Graf)
  149. Ferris Brewers Day Off (Phil Gallagher)
  150. Fever Pitch (David Bishop)
  151. A Few Good Ales (Fabricio Cannini)
  152. The Fining (Martyn Cornell)
  153. Firkinstein (Beer n’ Loathing)
  154. Fight Trub (ctrl-malt-delete)
  155. (500) Hops of Summer (Liberty Village Beer)
  156. A Floculation of Dodos (Dave Morton)
  157. Flocculation The Musical (Daniel)
  158. For a Few Gravity Points More (Brad Nixon)
  159. Frankensteinecker (Jeremy Danner)
  160. Friday The Thirteenth Degree Plato (Bull City Homebrew)
  161. From Beer To Eternity (Bill Fowler)
  162. Full Fermentation Jacket (Martyn Cornell)
  163. Full Metal Steam Jacket (Brookston)
  164. Gentlemen Prefer Blonde Ales (Bruce_F)
  165. The Germinator (infamous rascal)
  166. G. Heile-Men (mark pitsch)
  167. The Girl Who Played With Firkins (Jordan)
  168. The Girl With The Flagon Tattoo (Gregg Speirs)
  169. The Glucose Chainsaw Massacre (ctrl-malt-delete)
  170. GoldingsEye (Brookston)
  171. Goldingsfinger (Brookston)
  172. Gone With the Wort (Brookston)
  173. Good Dry Hopping (Joel Kennedy)
  174. Goodhellas (infamous rascal)
  175. The Good, The Bad and the Barley (Brett Jones)
  176. The Good, the Bad and the Fuggly (Dominic Driscoll)
  177. Gorillas in the Grist (Jeremy Danner)
  178. Gose Busters (rossthefireman)
  179. Grain Expectations (Martyn Cornell)
  180. Grain Man (Gregg Speirs)
  181. Grains of Paradise Canyon (Alicia Coulter)
  182. Grains of Paradise Lost (Bob Weden)
  183. Grainspotting (Steve)
  184. Great Flocculations (ctrl-malt-delete)
  185. The Great White Hop (Kevin Kozlen)
  186. Green Flash Gordon (Texas Brewnette)
  187. The Green Hop Mile (Kevin Bagshaw)
  188. The Grist of Wrath (Tommy Kelley)
  189. Grist Tracy (Chris Heier)
  190. Guess Who’s Coming to the Beer Dinner? (Neil Witte)
  191. The Gueuze Brothers (BryanDRoth)
  192. Gueuzebusters (Martyn Cornell)
  193. Gueuze Morning Vietnam! (SteveC.)
  194. The Gueuze, the Bad, and the Ugly (Rachael Weseloh)
  195. Gueuze with the Wind (Timothy Robert)
  196. The Hallertau of Steve (Rimmy.)
  197. Hard Cider House Rules (StarCitySuds)
  198. Harold and Malt (Kevin Kozlen)
  199. Harold & Maudite (Craft Beer Monger)
  200. Harry Porter & the Chamber of Saisons (Jordan)
  201. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallertau (Lisa Grimm)
  202. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Rauchbier (Stacey Butler)
  203. Harry Porter and the Sorcerer’s @StoneBrewingCo (MellodyBrewing)
  204. Hellesboy (Lisa Grimm)
  205. Hellesboy 2, The Golden Barley (Tucker Craig)
  206. Henry: Portrait Of A Cereal Killer (Adam Vavrick)
  207. The Hersbrucker Proxy (Dan Griffiths)
  208. Homebrew Bound (Marc Rea)
  209. Hopageddon (Beer Kristine)
  210. Hopback Mountain (Kevin Kozlen)
  211. The Hop Back of Norte Dame (Alicia Coulter)
  212. Hopback To The Future (Ten Inch Wheels)
  213. The Hopfather (Beer Notes)
  214. Hop Gun (Jessica Vander Velde)
  215. Hopocalypse Now (Eclecticmess)
  216. The Hoppit (Lonerider ATL)
  217. Hoppy Gilmore (Rob Thomas)
  218. Hops and Glory (Beer Kristine)
  219. The Hops of Wrath (Brookston)
  220. The House of Isinglass (Gregg Speirs)
  221. How I Brett Your Mother (ctrl-malt-delete)
  222. How IPA Won the War (Lisa Grimm)
  223. The Hunt For Red Oktoberfest (Alistair Reece)
  224. The Hunt for Red Hoptober (Jordan)
  225. I Know What You Brewed Last Summer (Davey Welch)
  226. I-Krausen (Cheshire Brewhouse)
  227. I’m Gonna Git You Suckeromyces Hard (Mike McGuigan)
  228. InArrogant Basterds (Jeremy Teel)
  229. In Brews (Abe Froman)
  230. Indiana Jones and the Last Glissade (Hoplanta)
  231. Indiana Jones & The Last Grande Cru-sade (Dave Morton)
  232. Indiana Jones and the Tripel of Doom (kortney)
  233. Inherit The Wort (Craft Beer Monger)
  234. In the Heat of the Mash Tun (Brookston)
  235. The Iron Cask (StarCitySuds)
  236. The Isinglass Menagerie (Jeremy Danner)
  237. It Came from Malted Barley (Chris Heier)
  238. It’s a Wonderful Lite (DPW)
  239. Jackie Nut Brown (Jason Budday)
  240. James Blonde (Jeff Merriman)
  241. John Tucker must Diacetyl (StarCitySuds)
  242. Judge Brett (Chris Heier)
  243. Kevin And Perry Go Sparge (ctrl-malt-delete)
  244. Kissing Jessica Stein Beer (Nicholas Guarracino)
  245. Kölschbusters (__beertooth)
  246. Kolsch Encounters of the Third Rind (Sierra Nevada Beer)
  247. Kolsch Runnings (Alistair Reece)
  248. A Krausen Splendid Suns (Ten Inch Wheels)
  249. Kvass Gordon (Lisa Grimm)
  250. Lactobacilli, Robot (ctrl-malt-delete)
  251. Lacto to the Future (Jeremy Danner)
  252. A Lager Of Their Own (Collin Simula)
  253. Lager Than Life (Andrew Emerton)
  254. The Lauter King (Craft Beer Monger)
  255. A League Of Cicerone (Adam Vavrick)
  256. Left Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Matt Drummond)
  257. Little Krausen The Prairie (ctrl-malt-delete)
  258. Lock, Stock, and Two Aging Barrels (Matt)
  259. Look Who’s Brewing Now? (Marc Rea)
  260. The Lord of the Beers: Fellowship of the Cicerones (Chris Heier)
  261. The Lord of the Beers: The Two Trippels (Chris Heier)
  262. The Lord of the Beers: The Return of the Bud (Chris Heier)
  263. The Lord of the Ringwood (Lisa Grimm)
  264. Lord of the Ryes (Jordan)
  265. Lost Encounters of the Third Tier (Danny A.)
  266. The Lupuliners (Mike Sawicki)
  267. A Mad River Runs Through It (Adam Vavrick)
  268. Malt, Hops & Two Firkin Barrels (pdtnc)
  269. Maltlock (Wade Reid)
  270. The Maltose Falcon (StarCitySuds)
  271. Mandy Does Maris [Otter] (Russ)
  272. A Man for All Saisons (Neil Witte)
  273. The Man with the Golden Ale (Andrew Ignatz)
  274. The Man with the Goldings Gun (Martyn Cornell)
  275. The Man With Two Grains (Grainne Walsh)
  276. Marley and Mead (Christian Williams)
  277. Mary Proppins (Jeremy Danner)
  278. Märzen Attacks! (Citra Loves Sorachi)
  279. M*A*S*H (James McIntyre)
  280. Masher and Commander (Joel Kennedy)
  281. Mash Me If You Can (BillF)
  282. Mashmen (BillF)
  283. Mash of the Titans (Robert Norman)
  284. Mashraker (Andrew Ignatz)
  285. Mashtun Impossible (kyle)
  286. The Mash Tun in the Woods (Chris Heier)
  287. Meet the Floccers (Jeremy Danner)
  288. Me, Myself & IPA (Bob Weden)
  289. Menace II Sobriety (Adam C.)
  290. Men In Black IPA (Men In Black IPA)
  291. Men in Bock (Jennifer Pesek)
  292. Midnight Carboy (Beer Notes)
  293. The Milling Fields (Kevin Kozlen)
  294. The Miracle of Morgan’s Kriek (Bruce_F)
  295. The Missouri Hot Breaks (Martyn Cornell)
  296. Monty Python & the Holy Ale (Cheryl b)
  297. Mr. Smith Gose To Washington (Nicholas Guarracino)
  298. Mrs. Stoutfire (Patrick Delahunty)
  299. The Munchener Candidate (Brookston)
  300. My Blue Paddle Heaven (Eclecticmess)
  301. Natural Born Millers (Adam Vavrick)
  302. New Glarus When it Sizzles (Citra Loves Sorachi)
  303. 9 1/2 Weeks of Lagering (Russ)
  304. Ninja Turtles: Secret of the Brews (Marc Rea)
  305. Northern Brewer by Northwest (Brookston)
  306. Oast of Hop Street (Alistair Reece)
  307. The Odd Dubbel (Peter Culos)
  308. An Officer and a Lauter Tun (BillF)
  309. Of Briess and Men (Jeff Merriman)
  310. Of Saccharomyces And Men (Martyn Cornell)
  311. Old Gueuzers Young Teasers (Joanna)
  312. Oliver Grist (Rachael Weseloh)
  313. One Brew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (infamous rascal)
  314. One Fining Day (Kevin Bagshaw)
  315. 127 Sours (Jordan)
  316. On the Wurterfront (infamous rascal)
  317. Orval-y Girl (ctrl-malt-delete)
  318. Pale Ale Rider (StarCitySuds)
  319. The Pellicle Brief (David Bishop)*
  320. The Perks of Being a Hopflower (John Williams)
  321. Perle Harbor (Brookston)
  322. Pint Club (Cloten)
  323. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Perle (Brookston)
  324. Pirates of the Carrageenan (Dave Morton)
  325. Pitch Black (pdtnc)
  326. Planet of the Ales By Tim Burtonisation (Beerburgersbees)
  327. Pirates of the Carbonation (DPW)
  328. Polestar Wars (Matt Drummond)
  329. The Propagation (Adam Vavrick)
  330. Pulp Fermentation (Craft Beer Monger)
  331. Raging Boil (Tommy Kelley)
  332. Raiders of the Last Hops (Kief Wahoo)
  333. Raiders of the Lost Sparge (Brookston)
  334. Raising Amarillo (Brookston)
  335. The Rauch (Nicholas Guarracino)
  336. Rebel without a Gueuze (infamous rascal)
  337. Reservoir Dogfish (StarCitySuds)
  338. Revenge of the Pilsners (Kris Fruin)
  339. Robo-Hop (Craft Beer Monger)
  340. The Rocky Hallertau Picture Show (Beer Kristine)
  341. Romancing the @StoneBrewingCo (Alicia Coulter)
  342. Room At The Top-Fermenting (Sid Boggle)
  343. A Room With a Brew (Bob Weden)
  344. Saison Golden Pond (Dave Morton)
  345. Saison of the Witch (Nate Nolan)
  346. Sauvin Private Ryan (Nate Nolan)
  347. Saving Private Reinheitsgebot (James Laska)
  348. Saving Private Rhizomes (Mike Sawicki)
  349. Saving Private Rye (FV7)
  350. Saving Private Stock Ryan (DPW)
  351. A Scanner Dunkelweizen (rossthefireman)
  352. Schaefer’s List (DPW)
  353. Schindler’s Grist (ctrl-malt-delete)
  354. Schlitzizen Kane (StarCitySuds)
  355. School of Bock (rossthefireman)
  356. Sexy Yeast (Christopher Graf)
  357. Shandyman (Jeremy Danner)
  358. She’s Reinheitsgebotta Have It (John Porter)
  359. The Shiner (Meredith Whitfield)
  360. The Silence of the Lambics (ctrl-malt-delete)
  361. Singin’ in the Grain (DPW)
  362. Six Degrees of Plato (Brookston)
  363. SlumDogfish Head Millionaire (Jeff Pelletier)
  364. Some Like it Hopped (Cameron Lang)
  365. Some Like It Hoppy (Brookston)
  366. Some Like it Hot Side Aeration (Brad Nixon)
  367. Sofie’s Choice (Marshal Jhakov)
  368. Some Like it Sour (Win Bassett)
  369. Sorachi Ace Ventura: Brett Detective (Kevin Kozlen)
  370. Spargeicus (Steve)
  371. Spargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Tucker Craig)
  372. Spatencus (Texas Brewnette)
  373. Splendor in the Mash (Norman Benson)
  374. Spongebob Yorkshire Squarepants (Ten Inch Wheels)
  375. Stanges in the Night (Beer By BART)
  376. Starsan Troopers (Oscar)
  377. Star Trek: the Next Fermentation (Alicia Coulter)
  378. Star Warsteiner (Ethan)
  379. Star Worts (StarCitySuds)
  380. Star Worts: A New Hop (Thomas Johnson)
  381. Stomp the Yard Glass (StarCitySuds)
  382. Stout of Africa (Bayou Beer Society)
  383. A Streetcar Named Decoction (Brookston)
  384. A Streetcar Named Dimethyl Sulfide (All About Beer)
  385. Super Mega Yeast vs. Uber Octopus (Craft Beer)
  386. Tank Gose (Lisa Grimm)
  387. Terms of En-Beer-ment (Stacey Butler)
  388. That Thing You Brew! (Andy Hille)
  389. There’s Something About Beta-Amylase (ctrl-malt-delete)
  390. There’s Something About Malting (Brookston)
  391. There Will Be Brett (Bull City Homebrew)
  392. Three Floyds and a Baby (Kevin Lansing)
  393. There Will Be Trub (SnailTrax)
  394. 3:10 to Yakima (Bull City Homebrew)
  395. Tim Burton Union’s Nightmare Before Christmas (David Kenning)
  396. A Time to Mill (Cole Lundquist)
  397. To Heffe and Heffe Not (Norman Benson)
  398. Tomme (Kim Sharpe Jones)
  399. Tomme Boy (Cheryl b)
  400. Top Tun (Kim Sharpe Jones)
  401. TransPorter (Patrick Delahunty)
  402. The Treasure of the Sierra Nevada (Brookston)
  403. The Trippels of Belleville (New Belgium Brewing)
  404. Trouble with the Cuvée (BryanDRoth)
  405. Trubber (Gregg Speirs)
  406. Trub Romance (Neil Witte)
  407. True Grist (Shane O’Beirne)
  408. Twelve [Golden] Monkeys (Cheryl b)
  409. 28 Days Lauter (Jeremy Danner)
  410. 24 Hour Parti-Gyle People (ctrl-malt-delete)
  411. 2001: A Spalt Odyssey (Craft Beer Monger)
  412. The Unbearable Lightness of Brewing (Brad Nixon)
  413. The Unbearable Lightstruck of Being (John Porter)
  414. Union Jack CIty (Armando Garcia)
  415. Up in Rauch! (Doug Ellertson)
  416. Up in the Airlock (BevacquaFan)
  417. Vatman (Jeff Merriman)
  418. V for Vorlauf (Brad Nixon)
  419. Voyage To The Bottom Fermenting Of The Sea (Sid Boggle)
  420. Wayne’s Wort (Beer Notes)
  421. War and Yeast (Wolfbrau)
  422. Wedding Cold Crashers (Andy Parker)
  423. The Wedding Mashers (Nicholas Guarracino)
  424. Weekend at Breweries (John Williams)
  425. Weisse Guys (JP)
  426. The Weiss the Wit and the Hefeweizen (Chris Heier)
  427. Westmallerats (ctrl-malt-delete)
  428. Wet Hop American Summer (Matt)
  429. When Harry Met Saccharomyces (Brookston)
  430. When Sparge Attacks (Marc Rea)
  431. Where The Wild Hops Are (Kief Wahoo)
  432. Where the Wild Yeast Are (Alistair Reece)
  433. Whitelabs Can’t Jump (David Bishop)
  434. White Men Can’t Hop (Davey Evans)
  435. The Wild Bunch (Christopher Graf )
  436. The Willamette Man (Lisa Grimm)
  437. Wise Gueuze (Richard Hamilton)
  438. Withnail and IPA (Dan Griffiths)
  439. The Wizard of O.G. (Brookston)
  440. The Wizard of Saaz (Citra Loves Sorachi)
  441. The Wizard of Sparging (Liberty Village Beer)
  442. Wort and Peace (kortney)
  443. Wort Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Alistair Reece)
  444. Wort Games (Lisa Grimm)
  445. Wort Locker (FV7)
  446. Wort of the Worlds (Justin)
  447. Wyeast Earp (BevacquaFan)
  448. Wyeastern Promises (Justin)
  449. The Yeast Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Bagshaw)
  450. Yeast is Yeast (Sid Boggle)
  451. Yeast Of Eden (Ten Inch Wheels)
  452. Yield of Dreams (Gary Valentine)
  453. You Cantillon Take It With You (Jeremy Danner)
  454. You Only Lager Twice (Brookston)
  455. You’ve Got Malt (Neil Witte)

* As far as I can tell, this was the first Fermentation Film title to be posted on Twitter, making David the originator of today’s fun.

Bistro 18th Anniversary Tomorrow

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The Bistro, in Hayward, California, has been an institution for … well, eighteen years. They put on four niche festivals each year — Double IPA, IPA, Wet Hop and Wood Aged — plus a hops rhizome event. Tomorrow they’re celebrating their 18th anniversary, not with a whimper, but a bang.

On tap, they’ll have some classic beers, such as Anchor Christmas Ale 1999 and in bottles, such rarities as a vertical tasting of North Coast Old Stock from 2000 until the present vintage, Unibroue’s anniversary ale, from 2004 to 2007. They’ll also have bottles of Russian River Brewing’s first bottling of batch 23 — circa 2007 — and Avery The Beast 2008 to name just a few.

There will be live music at the pub, beginning at 4:30, with The Hipbones, who first played here in 1997, The Travis Larson Band, along with special guest from Canada, Dave Martone.

The festivities start when they open at 10:30. Should be a great time. Happy 18th Vic and Cynthia!

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Bistro owners Cynthia and Vic Kralj announcing the winners of the 2009 Double IPA Festival.

The Toronado Comes To Russian River

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Last night, in the continuing and ongoing celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Toronado, a bus left San Francisco from lower Haight carrying a majority of the pub’s employees (leaving behind only a skeleton crew) along with significant others and friends of the bar. After traffic slowed their progress, two hours later sixty people emerged from the bus — now 18 cases of beer lighter — in Santa Rosa for a Toronado Anniversary Party at Russian River Brewing.

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The dining section of the brewpub was set aside for the private party, while patrons could continue to sit at the bar and use the other sections of the brewery.

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I even got the missus to come out and play, seen here with Brian Hunt, from Moonlight Brewing.

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Toronado balloons hung throughout the place.

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There were many folks at the party who came into town from all over the place; from Philadelphia, Denver, Portland, Seattle, New York and even San Diego. For instance, Jeff Bagby, looking for a location for his new San Diego brewery, and Eric Rose, from Hollister Brewing.

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Our hosts Natalie and Vinnie Cilurzo introduced the band, American Dog, who flew in from their native Ohio to play the party (they’re one of Toronado owner Dave Keene’s favorite bands). The last time they were here was five years ago for the Toronado’s 20th.

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Natalie air-guitaring with a giant bottle of Toronado 25th Anniversary.

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Raising a toast, Dave Keene (in the back) flanked by Ian Black (from the San Diego Toronado) and Jen Schwertman (from New York’s Blind Tiger).

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Dave Hopwood sporting his latest for-charity dyed beard. Click here to donate for Dave.

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American Dog played a great 21-song set and we said our good-byes (Mrs. J having a real job, had to get up early the next morning), leaving the assembled guests as they celebrated into the night. Thanks to Vinnie, Natalie and Dave for another wonderful evening of beer, music and camaraderie. Happy Anniversary Dave!

Russian River Toronado 25th Anniversary Beer

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Today Russian River Brewing‘s newest beer is being released, and it’s been some time in the making. It’s a blended beer made with six beers, only two of which are actual finished beers made before, with the other four being brewed just for blending purposes. Some of the beers had been aging for many months before finally being blended and bottled in April of this year, with additional yeast added to referment in the bottle. The beer, if you haven’t guessed, is the Toronado 25th Anniversary, made for the San Francisco pub’s silver anniversary which takes place next week, though the celebrating has already begun.

Tuesday night there was an intimate beer dinner in the back room of the Toronado, to introduce the new beer for their 25th anniversary, which was called the “Toronado 25th Anniversary Dinner and Blending Session.” Homebrew Chef Sean Paxton did the food but was told he could only use one plate. In typical crazy Paxton bizarro world, he did exactly as he was told, but found the biggest plate any one of us had ever seen. The ginormous plate of many foods was paired with all six of the base beers used to create the beer.

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Known as “The Plate,” it included 547 Pate (Willie Bird turkey thighs, Liberty Duck — breasts, hearts, livers — and Sonoma County pork, marinated in Toronado 25th Anniversary, mixed with bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon, thyme and pistachios), Haight Street Sausage (Sonoma County pork — shoulder, jowl and belly meat — cold smoked in Russian River Consecration barrel staves and mixed with currants soaked in Toronado 20th Anniversary, caramelized shallots and lemon thyme), Egg Head Customers (quail eggs pickled in malt vinegar infused with coriander, bay leaves, chilies and salt with red beets and sugar, garnished with a mushroom flaked sale), Fungi Dave (Petaluma chicken sous vide in Russian River Beatification, chopped and mixed with fennel, candied lemon peel and a Beatification aioli with paper thin mushroom slices, garnished with fennel pollen and truffle salt), Duck Duck Canapé (Liberty Duck confit in Toronado 25th Anniversary, made into rillettes infused with dried sour cherries topped with confit duck hearts on a hemp chia and sesame seed cracker), Riff Riff Salad (Mixed marble potatoes, green bean, yellow wax bean, apple smoked bacon and hydroponic watercress salad tossed with a Beatification funkigrette), Bejkr Bread, Humboldt Fog Goat Cheese, Beatification Jelly, Fatted Calf European-style Ham, and a slice of ripe melon.

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The six base beers were:

  1. Sonambic
  2. Blonde Ale
  3. Strong Pale Ale
  4. Ale Aged with Currants
  5. Strong Dark Ale
  6. Baltic Porter

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Around 60-70 people in the back room of the Toronado for the Toronado 25th Anniversary Dinner and Blending Session.

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I was fortunate enough to be seated at the table with my friend (and Washoes partner), Toronado owner Dave Keene, along with ….

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Natalie and Vinnie Cilurzo from Russian River Brewing.

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Each table setting included a pipette and an empty tulip glass so that everyone could use the six base beers to blend their own beer.

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Arne Johnson, from Marin Brewing, working on his own blend.

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Jen Garris, from Pi Bar, Dave’s wife Jen Smith, and Natalie Cilurzo.

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All six base beers with the finished product in the middle, the Toronado 25th Anniversary. If you look closely in the center, you can see the proportions for my two attempts at blending my own beers. Both of them turned out pretty well, with the second being more sour than the first (which was what I was going for).

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There was also extra pate and the Toronado 25th Anniversary along with a taste of the Toronado 20th Anniversary beer, too.

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Sean slipped in a second plate, with a dessert on it, a Toronado ‘Bar’ Cookie (a dark chocolate brownie topped with grafitti composed of oats, pistachios, dried cherries and ribbons of malt syrup).

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Dave Keene showing off the special bread Sean Paxton made for him.

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At the end of the evening, Vinnie revealed the actual blend percentages for the base beers used to create the Toronado 25th Anniversary, which were:

  1. Sonambic = 4%
  2. Blonde Ale = 16%
  3. Strong Pale Ale = 36%
  4. Ale Aged with Currants = 28%
  5. Strong Dark Ale = 12%
  6. Baltic Porter = 4%

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Dave Keene and Vinnie Cilurzo at the end of a great evening, holding a bottle of the Toronado 25th Anniversary.

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After which, the stogies came out and the evening began, with Matt Bonney, from Brouwers in Seattle, and Dave Keene getting things started. Thanks Dave, Jen, Sean, Vinnie and Natalie for spectacular evening. As of today, the new beer is available for sale. Pick up some as soon as you can, because when it’s gone, it’s gone. There’s more details on the Russian River Blog on how to get a bottle of your very own. Basically it’s $25 per bottle with a limit of two bottles per day, and it’s very limited. But stop by Russian River’s brewpub tonight for a taste of it on draft.

Mammoth Festival Of Beers & Bluesapalooza 2012

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This past weekend, in the middle of a road trip visiting breweries, I attended the 17th annual Mammoth Festival of Beers & Bluesapalooza. It was my second time at the music and beer festival, and it’s a really great event. It’s sponsored, in part, by local brewery Mammoth Brewing. The downside is, of course, that Mammoth Lakes, California is a remote and hard place to get to, but the upside is that it’s worth it once you’re there. The best way to go is to make a weekend, or more, out of it (and take the family) because there’s a lot to do there. It’s close to Yosemite, Mono Lake, hot springs and the Devils Postpile, and a whole lot more.

For the Bluesapalooza music festival, they get some great blues musicians and the setting is wonderful — literally in a wooded grove. There’s music Friday night, and all day Saturday and Sunday (plus a jam session Thursday night, too). The beer festival portion of the event, which is Saturday only, has also grown considerably since the last time I went, possibly doubling or more. There were 70 breweries pouring their beer this year. If you’re used to seeing a lot of the same Northern California breweries at festivals, Mammoth gets a lot of central and southern California breweries, which makes it a special treat, too.

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The beer festival is a major fund raiser for the California Craft Brewers Association, a very worthwhile organization that I support and volunteer with. This is me at the brewer’s reception the night before the festival with CCBA executive director Tom McCormick.

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The Bluesapalooza stage Saturday morning.

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Shaun O’Sullivan, from 21st Amendment.

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The beer festival was in the back, behind the stage area, among the trees, and spread the entire length of Sam’s Wood Site.

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L.A.’s Golden Road brewer Jon Carpenter and social diva Cambria Griffith.

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It was also great seeing Travis Smith from Societe Brewing and getting a second chance to try his wonderful beers.

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As the festival beer sponsor, Mammoth Brewing had two booths, one with the tap trucks. Thanks to owner Sean Turner for putting on a great festival and being a gracious host.

Father’s Day Fest This Sunday

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You know what you really want for Father’s Day: beer! And since it’s your day, how can your family say no? And now you really can get what you really want. Here’s how:

The Brewing Network’s Winter Brews Fest has spawned off-spring, and what better time to celebrate that than a Father’s Day-themed Summer Fest! The city of Concord and the East Bay- based craft beer radio company have joined forces once again to throw beer lovers a family friendly day, complete with a chili cook off, live music, an antique fair, a corvette car show, and more!

Unlike its January counter-part, this inaugural Summer Fest is open to all ages, with those over 21 getting a chance to sample dozens of different brews from local breweries such as 21st Amendment, Bear Republic, Creek Monkey, Deschutes, Drake’s, Firestone Walker, Heretic, Lagunitas, Ommegang, Stone, Uncommon Brewers, and more.

The Brewing Network’s 2012 Summer Fest will be held at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord, CA, on Sunday, June 17, 2012 from noon to 4pm. Rain or (what’s more likely) shine, they’ve got you covered, all you have to do is bring your fathers, surrogate or other, and give them a Father’s Day to remember. And with Concord BART just two blocks away, this event is bound to entice beer lovers from around the Bay to enjoy a responsible day celebrating Dad!

Tickets are $40 pre-sale and $50 at the gate and include unlimited tastes of beer, while-supplies-last chili, and a commemorative glass for the first 4,000 guests. Proceeds from the event will go to the Kiwanis Club and Contra Costa County Fire Department charities. For more information on the event, and to buy tickets please visit BNsummerfest.eventbrite.com.

Remember it’s your day. When they ask how you want to spend it, repeat after me. The Brewing Network’s Summer Fest on Father’s Day this Sunday.

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The Firestone Walker Invitational

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This weekend down in Paso Robles a new beer festival debuted. The Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest took place at the Mid-State Fairgrounds. I drove down Friday with Sean Paxton, the Homebrew Chef, who was scheduled to make cotton candy with sugar infused with Centennial hops. The festival was simply one of the best organized, best run, most enjoyable beer festivals I’ve been to in a long time, which was especially impressive given that it was a first time event. Here’s how Firestone Walker’s brewmaster Matt Brynildson described what he was going for with the FWIBF:

The Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest was born from a dream of creating a world class festival featuring not only the best brewers in the world, but brewers whom we feel are leaders in the craft beer revolution. These are folks of like mind and spirit, some new friends some of many years, who share our same passion for making craft beer and sharing it with the world. This is a day where we can all put down our sales and marketing pitches and simply commune and share our beers and stories with people who are truly interested in craft beer. The ground rules are simple. Bring a session beer and a special beer accompanied by the artisan who created it. Brewers, their beers, good music and folks who care.

In order to insure everyone could have a good time, many aspects of the festival were limited. There were only 40 breweries pouring their beer, 21 restaurants making their food and a limited number of tickets sold. I never heard the final head count, though throughout the day I heard estimates that ranged from 2,500 to around 3,200 but whatever the finally tally it never felt overly crowded and there was plenty of room in the Frontier Town area of the fairgrounds to stretch your legs and move about.

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Interviewed by the Brewing Network during the event, Brynildson added that he simply put together a wish list of breweries he would like to have at his event — several that didn’t even distribute in California — and was overwhelmed by how many quickly accepted his invitation. But that was awesome for anyone attending, as the likes of Bell’s, Boulevard, Revolution, Southern Tier, Three Floyds and others were there pouring beer.

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The night before the festival, Firestone Walker Brewing hosted an event for the brewers and media at their new taproom adjacent to the brewery.

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Mikkel and I trying to mimic the fighting lion and bear in Firestone Walker’s logo Friday evening. I guess I’m the lion.

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The festival opened Saturday at 1:00 p.m. At least an hour before, all of the ticket holders were checked in, had their wristbands on, glasses in hand and a program to study while they waited. When the gate opened promptly at one, everybody could just walk in and begin sampling their first beer. It was the first of many well-executed and well-planned aspects of the festival. Others included water stations throughout the festival grounds, ample ice, plenty of shade, abundant nibbles, and more substantial food available for purchase.

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There were two excellent bands — and perhaps best of all — the music was segregated from most of the beer and food booths, in a separate arena right next to them so that you could hear the music no matter where you were, but it was never so loud that you couldn’t carry on a conversation. If you wanted to dance or just listen to the music, all you had to do was wander inside the music area where there was stadium seating and a stage.

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Also, with a 2 to 1 ratio of breweries to food vendors, there was something to nibble on every other booth, such as this amazing dish by Chef Dallas of the Tenth Street Basque Cafe (author of Never Cook Bacon Naked).

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It was also great seeing Noah Regney, who used to brew for Pizza Port, but recently moved to Hollister Brewing, along with his fiance Sarah Huska, who used to live in Chicago where she worked with Ray Daniels on the Cicerone program. They seemed so happy, I always love seeing people in that state of bliss.

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Bay far, Masafumi Morita, from Yo-Ho Brewing in Japan, travelled the farthest.

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It was a gorgeous day on the central coast, perfect weather for a festival.

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Pat McIlhenney, from Alpine Beer Co., with Tomme Arthur, from the Lost Abbey.

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An unknown friend of Claudia and Rodger Davis, from Faction Brewing, along with Fraggle from beer Revolution.

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Patrick Rue, from the Bruery, with some Black Tuesday. Another great feature of this fest was that each brewery brought something rare, along with a session beer.

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Me, with Megan Flynn, from Beer West, our friend Marieke Gerritsen, and another friend.

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Lincoln Anderson, from Three Floyds, who brought along Dark Lord, accepts the “People’s Choice” award, voted on by the crowd attending the fest.

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Matt Brynildson toward the end of the day, enjoying the festival he conceived. The entire gang from Firestone Walker did an incredible job pulling off this festival and are to be congratulated. If you missed it this year, be sure to try and come next year. There’s no way this isn’t just going to get beter and better.

A Little Love From Philly Beer Week

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A native of Pennsylvania, Philly Beer Week is my second favorite beer week (after our own SF Beer Week, of course). Since attending the very first PBW, I’ve tried to come back every other year, which should have been this year. Alas, I have a book due at the end of next month, and I didn’t feel I could spare the time to frolic (ahem, I mean work) in the City of Brotherly Love.

The Homebrew Chef, Sean Paxton, is out there right now doing a beer dinner, and my good friend, fellow beer blogger Bryan Kolesar — who writes the Brew Lounge, sent me the photo below (taken by the incomparable Jennie Hatton) of Sean, Bryan and the Hammer of Glory. Thanks to Bryan’s keen fashion sense, at least I can be there in spirit. Thanks guys, I sure wish I could be there with you.

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The Lagunitas Beer Circus Is Coming To Town Again

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This weekend — Sunday May 20 to be exact — the circus is once again coming to the town of Petaluma as the fourth annual Lagunitas Beer Circus will be held on the grounds of the Lagunitas Brewery. If you haven’t been to the beer circus before, it’s one of the most amazing events of the beer festival season. As their press release promises; “Come One, Come All to Petaluma! Witness death-defying aerialists acts, be amazed by human marvels, laugh at outrageous clowns, get thrilled by exotic burlesque dancers, head-spinning sideshows and so much more to dazzle your mind.”

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Tickets are a reasonable $40, which includes gets you a commemorative glass and 3 tokens good for three 16oz. beers, but you can always buy additional beers. Tickets can be be purchased at either online, by phone at 707.769.4495 or at the Lagunitas Brewery Schwag Shop, located on the same spot as where the circus will take place: 1280 N. McDowell in Petaluma. The event is for adults only, goes from 1:00-6:00 p.m., and will benefit the Petaluma Music Festival and Music In Schools.

The circus acts and musical groups performing on Sunday include the Vau de Vire Society, the Extra Action Marching Band, The Moral Minority, The Ferocious Few, the Sour Mash Hug Band, Wanderlust Circus, Kehoe Nation, Cyclecide, artist Neal Barbosa painting live, “Bed of Nails, Roller Girls, Sword Swallowers, Snake Dancers, Burlesque Dancers, Contortionists … and so much more!”

But wait, there’s more, here’s the food and beer listing from the press release:

Great food! Beyond the Glory (wings, pork sliders, pork shanks), Extreme Pizza, Hog Island Oysters, Bros BBQ (bbq & paella), Sift (cupcakes), Roy’s @ the Yard (hot dogs), Tres Hombres (burritos, tacos), Toad in the Hole (bangers on a bun) Cotton Candy, and Those Fabulous Frickle Brothers… and much more!

Great Beer! Lagunitas, Moylan’s, Marin, Russian River, 3rd St. Aleworks, Stumptown, 21st Amendment, Moonlight, Dempsey’s, Anchor Brewing, North Coast, Iron Springs, Napa Smith, Henhouse Brewing, Palo Alto Brewing, Sonoma Springs, and Ace Cider.

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