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We are excited to announce the dates for next year’s festival. The 25th Southern California Homebrew Festival will be held April 29-30, 2016 at Vail Lake Resort in Temecula, CA. Please remember that the SCHF is open to California Homebrewers Association members only. Check back here often for the latest CHA and SCHF news.

The CHA is proud to announce the winners of the Vista Strawberry Festival homebrew competition: 1st Place: Nathan Gutzwiller (Cherry Weisse) 2nd Place: Jim Slattery (Pineapple Ale IPA) 3rd Place: Jim Slattery (Strawberry Creme) Special thanks to the Barley Engineers and the Vista Chamber of commerce for all of the hard work they put in to make this happen!

Just created a new FB album with photos submitted from the fest.  Click here to view the album.

This is the first post after the home brew festival… Thank you everyone for helping us make this one of the best SCHF’s ever. In particular, we want to thank: – Our awesome CHA board of directors (Christy, MJ, Bruce, Marianne, Doug, Albert, Doug, and Spencer) who put countless hours of work into this – Our clubs and club reps…
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Registration for the 24th SCHF is now closed but there are still spots available for the offsite tasting at Refuge.