{"id":17110,"date":"2014-07-31T03:09:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T10:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17110"},"modified":"2014-07-31T03:09:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T10:09:41","slug":"wine-and-beer-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wine-and-beer-because\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine and Beer BeCause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/chulwine.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that when you attend a wine or beer festival in California you&#8217;re nearly always helping out some cause? Of course you can choose to drink &#8220;just because&#8221;. This weekend there are plenty of causes and becauses. Here are a few you may have overlooked or didn&#8217;t know about:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/august-festivals.html\">Wine &amp; Beer Festivals<\/a>\u00a0 for the Weekend August 1-3, 2014 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CHULA VISTA Farm to Bay Food &amp; Wine Classic (pictured) &#8211; helps Living Coast Discovery Center<\/li>\n<li>LIVERMORE Taste of Downtown with local Wines &amp; culinary treats &#8211; for\u00a0a vibrant Downtown &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/august-food.html\">info<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MAMMOTH LAKES Festival of Beers &amp; Bluesapalooza &#8211;\u00a0supports businesses<\/li>\n<li>MORGAN HILL Downtown Brew Crawl &#8211; Kick off Festival of the Arts<\/li>\n<li>NAPA VALLEY Music in the Vineyards &#8211; supports local music and culture<\/li>\n<li>PHILO \u00a0Mendocino County Fair Wine Competition &#8211; promotes education and industry growth<\/li>\n<li>RANCHO BERNARDO: Tastings Festival Wine and Food &#8211; supports tourism<\/li>\n<li>RANCHO CORDOVA Guns &amp; Hoses Wine, Brew &amp; Food Festival &#8211; supports Sacramento Fire &amp;\u00a0Law<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO Pacific Beach Sip N Stroll &#8211; helps Pacific Beach community and businesses<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0Eat Drink SF Epic Food Festival &#8211; supports culinary community<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE Sabor del Valle Festival &#8211; promotes Latino Vintners<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE Kraft Brew Fest &#8211; promotes local businesses &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-beer-festivals.html\">info<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SEBASTOPOL West of the West Wine Festival &#8211; supports West Sonoma Coast\u00a0farming<\/li>\n<li>YORKVILLE Highlands Wine Festival and Grape Stomp &#8211; promotes lesser known wine region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that when you attend a wine or beer festival in California you&#8217;re nearly always helping out some cause? Of course you can choose to drink &#8220;just because&#8221;. This weekend there are plenty of causes and becauses. Here are a few you may have overlooked or didn&#8217;t know about: Wine &amp; Beer Festivals\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}