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Tomorrow is the start of the Alameda County Fair. The fair runs from June 20th through July 6th making the duration of the event a little over two weeks. I’m almost ashamed to say that this will be my very first county fair. For whatever reason I never visited the Santa Clara County Fair and, for the foreseeable future, it doesn’t seem like I ever will as the fair has gone the way of the dinosaur and the Champ Car race.

Looking at their website, the Alameda County Fair promises to have a variety of activities and entertainment. There will be horse racing, concerts, parades, fireworks and distractions for the kids. My main interest for the fair and the sole reason I’m even writing a post about it is because of the homebrew competition.

The Bay Area Brew Off (BABO) is sponsored by the folks from the Draught Board Home Brew Club based in San Leandro. Their membership is mainly made up of East Bay folks but isn’t restricted to just East Bay folks. BABO is in it’s 21st year and I entered in two of my beers, a märzen and an altbier on a whim. I’ve been chomping at the bit to see how well I did but the results won’t be up until tomorrow. Hopefully I did well and entered the correct bottles for the correct categories. I should consider labeling my beers in the future.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 3:46 pm and is filed under Bay Area Brew Off, Competitions, Craft Beer, Homebrew. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.