If you answered yes to both questions — or even just one — you won’t want to miss out on the Claremont Chamber of Commerce’s Brew and Champion BBQ event.
The event is set for noon to 5 p.m. Saturday (January 12), at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont.
Participants will sample from local craft breweries (and a cidery) and from Pit Master barbecue teams.
Tickets are $45 (plus a $2.86 service fee if purchased online) and include admission to the gardens, 6 barbecue taste vouchers, and 10 drink tasters. Click here to purchase.
I & I Brewing in Chino — one of our favorite Inland Empire breweries — is turning seven and the brewery will celebrate with an anniversary party from 11 a.m.- 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6.
Sour Cellars brewery in Rancho Cucamonga will celebrate its second anniversary from noon to 10 p.m. Saturday (December 29).
The event will feature special releases, including Breaking Camp, a blended sour made with black raspberries; and Damfino, a blended golden sour made with yellow nectarines, white peaches and yellow peaches.
The Chico-based brewery — along with many other breweries — brewed the beer on Giving Tuesday (November 27) and will be donating 100% of sales of the finished product to the Camp Fire Relief Fund.
They’ve also asked every brewer in America to do the same.
Euryale Brewing Company will celebrate the release of its first barrel-aged beer from 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday (November 21).
Pandora Sweet Potato Pie Ale, an old ale infused with freshly prepared yams and spices, was aged for more than six months in rum barrels imported from the Caribbean.