Really confused as to why my nginx 403's when visiting / instead of redirecting to /brews

nginx.conf

upstream brewwatcher_server {
  server 127.0.0.1:4567 fail_timeout=0;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
    #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
    #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    #access_log  logs/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    tcp_nodelay on;

    gzip  on;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_min_length 500;

    #gzip  on;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;
	root /home/csaunders/brewwatcher/ruby/public;
	client_max_body_size 4G;
	keepalive_timeout 5;

        #charset koi8-r;

        #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

        #location / {
        #    root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        #    index  index.html index.htm;
        #}
	location / {
		try_files @brewwatcher $uri;
	}

	location @brewwatcher {
    		proxy_set_header           Host              $http_host;
    		proxy_set_header           X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
    		proxy_set_header           X-Forwarded-By    $server_addr:$server_port;
    		proxy_set_header           X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    		proxy_set_header           X-Local-Proxy     $scheme;
    		proxy_set_header           X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
		proxy_redirect off;
		proxy_pass http://brewwatcher_server;
	}
}