If you haven’t paid close attention, you may have missed a cool beer festival that was added to our local scene a few years ago. With the minimalist name Beer Fest, it’s a benefit for the Humboldt Historical Society and the Clarke Historical Museum, held this year on Aug. 1 at Dell’Arte, a great venue […]
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Brews for a Cause at the Homebrew Festival
In the years before the pandemic, the festival filled Arcata’s other, much larger, community center. This felt intimate and back-to-basics with maybe 20 brewers, several dozen brews of various kinds, with hard-driving band The Mojovators performing multiple sets. It’s like the difference between a recent Platinum Edition Ford pickup and an F100 from back in […]
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Return of the Strange
I’m writing this while simmering in the mild, buzzy afterglow that follows attending a beer festival. In the past few years, Humboldt’s beerfests have slowly come back, and the return of Strange Brew, a benefit for the Eureka Theater, feels like a full-circle moment. With at least three dozen libations to sample, I tried, I […]