Just a reminder that starting in April our meetings are moving to the Community Room at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek. This is a much larger space than we’ve had at B3 and it should be a lot more comfortable as our attendance continues to climb.

Map & Directions

The April newsletter can be found here (also note there is a permanent link on the right hand navigation bar for newsletters - thanks Aaron).

B3’s Jon Plise warns us:
If you are thinking about growing hops this year you have to order them on line (www.morebeer.com) as part of our pre-order sale.You’ve got about a week to do so. We’ve pretty much maxed out our supplier and we have the ability to up our order pending how many we sell during our pre-order. Whatever you order online at this point we cannot guarantee your order will be completely filled but you should get something to grow.

The concord showroom will have (0) rhizomes available to sell in the store.

Club maven Erik has put together a PDF club newsletter. Grab yourself a copy.

The Boston Beer Company, has shipped several kegs of the 2007 Longshot Double IPA that they brewed on their pilot system. Join me at the E. J Phair Alehouse, Thursday, February 21st at 7PM to try this 9.5% hop-bomb.

I’d love to see you all there!

Mike

I want to apologize for not having enough copies of the handouts printed out last night (and for the incredibly small font they were in for the ones who DID get a copy).  If you’d like to have a copy of the recipe and didn’t get one or if you’d just like a more legible copy, you can get them here:

• Mr. Porter’s Lullaby (brown porter)
• Good Night Irene (Baltic porter)

I’m looking forward to trying LOTS of good porters for the CoC tasteoff next month!  You’ve still got time to brew a brown or robust porter so what are you waiting for?

– Gary F.

Greetings Dozers.  This year’s hop shortage is old news by now, but the question remains who has the hops I need?

Today I came across a Hop Availability Chart.  If you’re looking for something in particular, and they’re not available at your favorite LHBS, this chart might come in handy.

We have our first batch of pics from NCHF 2007 online, thanks Dick. As always, if you have club photos you can either upload them to Flickr with the tag “clubdoze” or you can burn them to a CD and bring them to any meeting.

Once again, the DOZE Holiday Party is upon us! We’ll be getting together on Monday December 10 in the Community Room of the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek.
The party will run from 6:00 to 10:00pm. Dick Fox has graciously offered to handle dinner, catered by Bo’s BBQ from Lafayette. Anyone who’s been around a while may recall that Bo catered our party back in 2004, and it was awesome.
Bring your significant other (heck, even if they’re not so significant), your home brew, and some cash for the raffle.

The Details:

If you didn’t sign up at the meeting, please RSVP to party@clubdoze.com
ASAP.
Dinner costs $20 per person, cash or checks made out to DOZE.
The Lindsay Wildlife Museum is located at 1931 1St Ave in Walnut Creek (on the north end of Larkey Park). We will be in the Community Room, which is on the east side of the building at ground level.
Google Map

Bo’s is providing meet and some side dishes. If you’d be willing to bring an appetizer, veggie side or help with dessert please drop me a line.

Our own Mike McDole got a nice write up in the local press, along with prominent mention of the club! Once again, congrats Mike!

New visitors should know that our club meetings are the last non-holiday Monday evening of every month, in the showroom of Beer, Beer & More Beer (aka B3) in Concord, CA. Meetings are open to the public, feel free to stop by and check one out before you decide to join.

Meeting topics usually include competiton planning, brewing technique and a featured beer style of the month. Members and guests frequently bring samples of their prize winning homebrew to share. We welcome brewers of all styles, abilities and experience levels, even people who are just interested!