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Local Brewers and Grillers Outdid Themselves!

What: The 4th Annual SoHum Beer Fest & Smoke-Off
When: Saturday, August 18th, 2012 / Time TBA
Where: Mateel Community Center
Tickets: At the Door / Prices TBA / Will include an all-inclusive beer tasting ticket and an optional food/ music only ticket.

4th annual SoHum Beer Fest & BBQ Smoke Off Returns To Mateel August 18th, 2012!

Now in its 4th year on Saturday, August 18th, the SoHum Beer Fest & BBQ Smoke Off is becoming one of southern Humboldt’s favorite summertime events.  Offering local grill masters an opportunity to put their best recipes to the test in a BBQ showdown, while local/ regional breweries and homebrewers face off in a tasters choice competition decided by the audience, its no wonder why this is becoming a wildly popular event.

Amidst wafts of BBQ smoke, the afternoon event will take place at the Mateel Community Center and will feature hot honky-tonk music by Rooster McClintock, the original and classic rock of NightHawk, and country/ blues infused SoHum sounds of Fries-Nester-Ruland, plus unlimited micro/ homebrew tastings in a free commemorative tasting glass, a smorgasbord of BBQ samplers from the competing contestants (augmented by a few Mateel staff BBQers this year!), and the chance to help decide the competition’s winners by voting for your favorite BBQ dishes and beers.

To sign up for the BBQ competition or to enter your homebrew call the Mateel office at 923-3368. Please note that BBQ contestants must provide their own ingredients, serving utensils, and grill (if needed) plus make enough of their dish to serve bite size samplers to a crowd of about 200 people.  Two free admissions are offered to each BBQ contestant or homebrewer who enters.  Prizes and bragging rights go home with the top 3 winners in each category, plus a limited cash reimbursement on expenses for the winning BBQ or homebrew contestants.

Stay tuned to www.mateel.org for more info on participating breweries, pricing, prizes, and other event info soon.  Admission is at the door with both an all-inclusive beer tasting ticket and a food/ music only ticket available.

Featured Entertainers To Include:

Rooster McClintock   Rooster McClintock Nighthawk   Nighthawk Fries-Nestor-Ruland   Fries-Nestor-Ruland See you there... it's gonna to be FUN!!!