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Hoppy Hour: 6:00
Dinner: 7:00
Location: E.J. Phair Alehouse | Map / Directions (Walking Distance from Concord BART)

Cost: $20.00 per person including tax and gratuity.

Matt has prepared a special menu for the occasion and will include two beer selections (or soda or house wine) with your choice of one of five entree choices with your selection to be made at the event. DOZE will host appetizers during Hoppy Hour. Reservations will be taken at our meeting on November 28 with payment expected at that time. For those unable to attend the meeting, please RSVP to Dick Fox by 9:00PM on Thursday, December 1 and we will collect your fare at the door. We will accept cash or a check payable to DOZE for the dinner.

The August meeting was held Monday the 29th at the EJ Phair Alehouse. Club vice president Curtis Pehl presided, as Doctor Scott had a death in his family and was unable to attend. The club’s condolences go out to Doctor Scott and his family.

Everybody enjoys club meetings at EJ Phair.

There were a couple
of new faces at this meeting. Jeff and Mike. Welcome to the club! If you
have questions about membership, Aaron T. Porter is our Membership Chairman.
He can be reached at atporter@primate.net.

Jeff and Mike fit right in at their first DOZE meeting.

The Style Talk was
given by Reagan Dillon and the subject
was mead. Reagan gave a short lecture and then poured some of his own
examples of the style. Next month’s Style Talk will be on pilseners and
will be presented by Chris Graham.

Reagan Dillon pours one of his delicious meads.

Gadget Time featured
two items, one rather unusual and the other very practical. The first
was Vince Garcia’s milk can fermentor.
Vince has modified a stainless steel milk can to accept an airlock and
seal it’s lid securely. At presstime, Vince had yet to try his creation
but will report on it’s performance as soon as he does.

Vince Garcia’s milk can fermentor.

Item two was a heavy
duty stand for a 5# CO2 bottle, built by Erik
Beer. Erik attaches his bottle to the stand by means of a large hose
clamp.

The aptly named Erik Beer and his CO2 bottle stand.

For the New Stuff
at B3
portion of the meeting , Jason Petros talked
about several new kits at the store, one being a saison and the other
being a 10th Anniversary stout kit. B3 also plans to introduce a line
of "Club Series" kits. These would be a signature kit representing
a particular club (like ours!) and a portion of each sale would go back
to that club. Sounds like a great idea. This writer thinks there are several
DOZE brewers who could provide worthy recipes.

B3 will also soon
be stocking a new plate type wort chiller. Similar to The Therminator,
it will retail for less than $100.

New toy chills wort on the cheap!

There was no Tech
Talk segment this month..

There was no Competition
Report this month.

DOZE members Jon Plise and Mike McDole continued their winning ways by bringing home the gold at the American Homebrewers Association 2005 National Homebrew Competition in Baltimore, Maryland in mid-June. Also scoring big (under his QUAFF affiliation) was Jamil Zainasheff.
Here is a brief summary:

Light Lager
Gold- Jon Plise- Standard American Lager

Scottish and Irish Ale
Silver- Jon Plise- Strong Scotch Ale

English Brown Ale
Gold- Jamil Zainasheff- Southern English Brown Ale

Belgian Strong Ale
Silver- Jamil Zainasheff- Belgain Blonde Ale

Fruit Beer
Gold-Mike McDole

Traditional Mead
Bronze- Jamil Zainasheff- Semi-sweet Mead

Congratulations to Jon, Mike and Jamil.

Complete competition results can be found here.