Cheers to Charity Homebrew Edition and TMTA BrewFondo

Local Tehachapi home brewers were set up to hand out samples of their beers.

The combined event held this year at the rodeo grounds gave many of the trail bike riders the opportunity to dry camp overnight at the event site.

Tehachapi home brewer Pat Ray, hands a sample to a guest during the home brew sampling event held this year at the Tehachapi Event Center and Rodeo Grounds in conjunction with Cheers to Charity.

For the younger set, and those wishing a non-alcoholic drink, Ridgecrest home brewer Indian Wells, donated a keg of their home-made root beer.

Cheers to Charity President Mary Beth Garrison, welcomed the nearly 200 guests to the combined event. "Funds raised today are earmarked as operating funds for the 2019 season. This helps keep those funds, raised next year, available to donate back to the community" stated Garrison.

Trail bike riders had the opportunity to ride any one of four pre-laid out courses by Tehachapi Mountain Trails Association. Leaving right from the rodeo grounds riders had a short distance to the start of the Lehigh trail system. Zoe Briones and her dad Oscar rode the 5-mile Root Beer course on his two-seat adapted bike.