This year’s Rendezvous will be held at the Roseburg Rod and Gun Club on May 15 – 17. This year’s theme is Hop Happy Hippies and era appropriate tie-dye clothing is highly encouraged. Gates will be open at noon on Friday the 15th for setup and registration. We’ll have folks joining our event from Hellgate Homebrewers, Cascade Brewers Society, Bear Creek Homebrewers, as well as our own Umpqua Valley Brewers Guild (UVBG). We’re expecting to have 40-50 attendees that have an amazing assortment of brewing, fermenting, and tasting talents.
To get an accurate count on this year’s attendance, we’re requiring everyone to register and sign The Pledge. This is simply a confirmation that each individual is responsible for their own actions and neither the UVBG or any of its members are liable for the results of someone else’s decisions and/or choices.
After setting up and renewing friendships over a tasty adult beverage, we’ll relax around a campfire with the Sexy Beer Night opener. This tradition involves sampling commercial beers not often seen, tasted, or imagined by most of us. Usually some excellent and, almost always, some off the wall brewing variations (I’m still not over the oyster infused beer). If you have a musical instrument, bring it along. The evening campfire can be even more fun with a few tunes thrown into the mix.
Saturday morning will feature a hearty breakfast as usual to get everyone up to speed for the day’s activities. We’ll have a raffle, used equipment sale/barter, competition among the beers, wines, and special beverages (ciders, meads, kombucha, etc.), a fabulous brisket & chicken BBQ. After dinner & competition awards, we’ve got Coleen & Company to provide easy listening music from 6-8 pm.
Sadly, Sunday morning means cleanup, packing up, and saying “See you again soon!” to all our brew buddies!