Three DOZE’rs brought home some bling from Orlando this year!  Congratulations to these guys for brewing the best homebrew in the nation in their respective categories!

Jon Plise brings home a gold for his Dark American Lager and a bronze for his American Brown Ale

Scott Thomas contributes a bronze to the list for his American Stout

Mike McDole adds a silver to his bling stash for his Dortmunder Export

Congrats, guys!  Way to go!

The 2nd annual Beer, Beer and MoreBeer forum competition has now come to a close.  The competition was fierce and the level of expertise represented was very high.  It was a small competition but had a very high level of competitiveness and some top notch brewers competing for bragging rights.

Not all of the winners posted are DOZE’rs, and this time I am not going to chop them out.  Instead I’ll just share the raw results and say congratulations to all of you!  Special congratulations to Dean Dunivan, who’s English bitter took best of show!  Guess Dean paid attention during my last style talk eh? :)  Seriously, great job Dean, you’ve really kicked it up a notch and are turning out some extremely good beer!

Category: Pale Lager

3rd - Matthew Shoup - Premium Am. Lager
2nd - Jim ” I cant wait for anything” Rossi - Munich Helles
1st - Christopher Buchanan - German Pils

Category: Dark Lager

3rd - Virg Redman - Munich Dunkel
2nd - Dean Dunivan - Traditional Bock
1st - Virg Redman - Schwarzbier

Category: Brown Ale

3rd - Jason Green - Am. Brown
2nd - Mark Smith - Am. Brown
1st - Craig Frump - Mild

Category: Porter and Stout

3rd - Jason Green - Am. Stout
2nd - Jason Mooth - Robust Porter
1st - Virg Redman - Robust Porter

Category: Strong Ale

Honorable - Jason Green - Am. Barleywine
3rd - Mark Garwatoski - Imperial IPA
2nd - Kevin Hann - Imperial IPA
1st - Mark Garwatoski - Russian Imperial Stout

Category: Specialty

3rd - Joseph Hanko - Specialty with Ginger, cinnamon, all spice
2nd - Virg Redman - Stout with Bing Cherries, Rum
1st - Kevin Hann - Northern English Brown with Vanilla Beans

Category: Wheat

3rd - Mark Garwatoski - German Weizen
2nd - John Donehower - Witbier
1st - Dean Dunivan - German Weizen

Category: English Pale Ale

3rd - Virg Redman - ESB/Pale Ale
2nd - Jason Green - Special/Best Bitter
1st - Dean Dunivan - Standard/Ordinary Bitter

Category: American IPA

Honorable Mention - Brian Dellosa
3rd - Kyle Larson
2nd - Brian Packer
1st - Mike Yasuma

Category: Hybrids

Honorable Mention - Dean Dunivan - Kolsch
3rd - Virg Redman - Cal. Common
2nd - Dean Dunivan - Blonde Ale
1st - Mark Garwatoski - Northern German Alt

Category: American Pub Ales

Honorable Mention - Matthew Shoup - Am. Pale
3rd - Jay Nelson - Am. Amber
2nd - Kyle Larsen - Am. Pale
1st - Mark Smith - Am. Amber

Category: Scottish and Irish Ales

3rd - Mike Besser - Scottish Light 60
2nd - Virg Redman - Irish Red Ale
1st - Virg Redman - Strong Scottish

Category: Belgian and French

Honorable mention - John Donehower - Biere de Garde
3rd - Virg Redman - Dubbel
2nd - Virg Redman - Belgian Blonde
1st - Kevin Hann - Dark Strong Ale

Best Of Show:

Dean Dunivan - standard/Ordinary Bitter

Best MoreBeer Kit Beer:

Mike Yasuma - B3 Columbus IPA Kit

Firestone Walker just announced the dates for their 2006 Beer Olympics:

Starting at noon at both Golden Gate Park in SF and Crab Cove in Alameda

Keg Tossing, Arm Wrestling, Sack Racing, Beer Drinking, and general debauchery

Using BJCP guidelines there will be a homebrew competition in 2 categories: IPA & German Hefe Weizen

Entries must be delivered by July 29th to either:

Oak Barrel Winecraft
1443 San Pablo Ave Berkeley, CA 94702: 510 849 0400

Beer, Beer, & More Beer
995 Detroit Unit G Concord, CA 94518: 925 939 2337

Erik Beer sent over a few photos from the Big Brew. I’ve put them up on Flickr with the tags “clubdoze” and “bigbrew“. If anyone else has Big Brew photos (or photos about DOZE in general) please feel free to upload them to Flickr, or you can get them to me and I’ll get them up.

Three DOZE members brought it strong to the Maltose Falcons Mayfaire (which is one of the three legs for sierra nevada homebrewer of the year):

1st - Jon Plise
2nd - Jon Plise

2nd - Jon Plise
3rd - Mike McDole

1st - Jon Plise

2nd - Dean Dunivan

3rd - Jon Plise (tie)

2nd - Dean Dunivan

3rd - Mike McDole

2nd - Jon Plise

1st - Mike McDole

3rd - Dean Dunivan

1st - Jon Plise
2nd - Mike McDole

1st - Jon Plise

2nd - Jon Plise

In addition, Best of Show went to Mike for his Double IPA! Congrats to Dean, Jon and Mike!  Looks like Jonny five-oh is an early front-runner for the SN homebrewer of the year so far, let’s see if he can keep ahead of the pack!

Big Brew at Vince Garcia’s

Vince’s address is 1780 Danesta Dr in Concord.
25% off all extract and all grain kits from MoreBeer if you brew at Vince’s house.

Come celebrate the one year anniversary of the brewing network! After the big brew relax and join Justin, JP, Jon and Daniela (and a bunch of crazy TBN members) and enjoy Daniela’s maibock as brewed by Shaun!

From 5pm until ???, www.thebrewingnetwork.com Anniversary Show at the 21st Amendment Brewery, SF.

Directions and info on the brewery at 21st-amendment.com

Flufah!

Don’t forget this weekend’s Big Brew at Vince Garcia’s

Sunday from 10am to 4pm

Vince’s address is 1780 Danesta Dr in Concord.
25% off all extract and all grain kits from MoreBeer if you brew at Vince’s house.

Starting 6:30pm at B3

Style Talk: Honey Beers (BJCP 23)
Presented by: TBA

Tech Talk: The Road to All Grain: Mash Design and Ingredients
Presented by: TBA