{"id":24312,"date":"2017-06-01T16:19:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T23:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24312"},"modified":"2017-06-01T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T23:19:53","slug":"beer-festivals-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/beer-festivals-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Festivals in California&#8217;s Wine World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/beerr.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we scoured the early June 2017 festival scene it appeared that beer is outpacing wine in festival popularity this season. Signature wine events such as Temecula Balloon &amp; Wine Festival or Ojai Wine Festival now have sizable numbers of breweries represented and pouring, too. \u00a0It would almost seem that beer is poised to take on wine as California&#8217;s top alcoholic beverage. However, the production numbers aren&#8217;t there yet and perhaps breweries are simply finding their place in California&#8217;s predominantly Wine World. Here are a few statistics&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>California Beer VS Wine<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>623 craft breweries vs 4,300 wineries<\/li>\n<li>$6.9 billion California craft beer sales vs $34.1 billion wine sales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/june-beer.html\">Beer Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>JUNE 2, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BAKERSFIELD: Summer Beer and Wine Fest<\/li>\n<li>TEMECULA: Temecula Valley Balloon &amp; Wine Festival June 2-4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>JUNE 3, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BERKELEY: Pints for Paws<\/li>\n<li>BONNY DOON: Brew, Art &amp; Wine Festival<\/li>\n<li>CHICO: Micro Brew Festival<\/li>\n<li>IDYLLWILD: Paws for Rhythm and Brews<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: Castroville Artichoke Festival June 3-4<\/li>\n<li>NORCO: Horse Town Brew N&#8217; Que Festival<\/li>\n<li>PASO ROBLES: Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival<\/li>\n<li>ROCKLIN: Rocklin Brewfest<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Taste of Summer Grand Tasting<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Pink Boots Society Beer Festival<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Beer &amp; Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Beer Camp on Tour San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: Santa Barbara Zoo Brew<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>JUNE 4, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CAMARILLO: Casa Pacifica Wine, Food &amp; Brew Fest<\/li>\n<li>GRASS VALLEY: Wild for the Yuba Beer &amp; Wine Tasting Festival<\/li>\n<li>MILL VALLEY: Mill Valley Wine, Beer &amp; Gourmet Food Tasting Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we scoured the early June 2017 festival scene it appeared that beer is outpacing wine in festival popularity this season. Signature wine events such as Temecula Balloon &amp; Wine Festival or Ojai Wine Festival now have sizable numbers of breweries represented and pouring, too. \u00a0It would almost seem that beer is poised to take [&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\/24312"}],"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=24312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}