Another awsome Bay Area Event is coming up!

The 4th Annual Bay Area Firkin Gravity Festival
Saturday April 7 at the Triple Rock Brewery, 1920 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
To benefit the Jane Goodal Roots and Shoots Program

Over 20 Breweries, including some club favorites. $25 for a tasting glass and unlimited pours.

The Brewers include: Drakes, Stone, 21st Amendment Sierra Nevada, Lagunitas, Schooners, Black Diamond and Russian River!

JJ has graciously offer his new brewery (which isn’t quite finished yet) for our annual party. This a DOZE gathering in which we encourage our members to bring their spouses or significant others.

We have planned for Monday Dec 11th. This will be catered and should cost around $20/person (the details are being finalized now). We are also able to bring our own homebrew to this venue (which has been a problem in the past). So bring bottles or kegs of your finest efforts for everyone to sample.

EJ Phair
190 E 3rd St
Pittsburg, CA 94565

It’s that time of year again. The DOZE Holliday party is just around the corner. We’ll be getting together on Monday December 11th at 6:30pm at the new EJ Phair Brewery out in Pittsburg (Google Map).
If you didn’t sign up with Rachelle at the November meeting, please make sure you RSVP to Rachelle no later than Monday December 4th. The cost is $20 per person, and it looks like we’ll have an impressive multi-course catered meal. Spouses, guests and significant others are more than welcome.

EJ Phair
190 E 3rd St
Pittsburg, CA 94565

Just a quick reminder that this coming Saturday, November 11th it the 28th Annual California State Homebrew Competition. Stop by to watch the judging and see our own Jon Plise named Sierra Nevada Homebrewer of the Year! The fun starts at 10 AM and runs to 7 PM at the clubhouse in Stern Grove.
For more information, check the San Andreas Malts site.
Here’s the location on Google Maps.
If you want to take public transit, take BART to the Balboa Park Stop and then Transfer to the MUNI K-Line Inbound. Get off at the St Francis Circle Stop (corner of Sloat and West Portal) and then walk West down Sloat 3 short blocks to Stern Grove.

We’ve got Dick Fox’s pictures from last weekends Big Brew onine at Flickr. Click Here to check them out. If you’ve got pictures of your own, you can always get them to Aaron, or just upload them to Flickr and tag them with clubdoze and we’ll all be able to find them.

Still more photos!
Erik Beer’s NCHF pictures are online @flickr
And More! NCHF Photos from Dick Fox

John Donehower of Pyramid will be at B3 next Saturday, August 19 starting at 11am. He’ll be brewing his favorite homebrew Porter recipe. By all accounts the last Pro Brewer day (Drakes) was a blast, and this one should be too.

As an added bonus, B3 is offering 25% off all their German Hefeweizen kits and yeasts for people brewing on site. Lots of food and beer will be shared, make sure not to miss it!

We have an opportunity to promote our club and B3 this Sat. Aug. 12, 12pm to 2pm at Vince’s house 1780 Danesta Dr. Concord (925) 798-8138. Black Diamond Living Magazine is doing an article on homebrewing and wants picture to go with it. They have a deadline to meet so we don’t have time to arrange a real big brew.
We want to get as many club members as we can to come and look like they’re brewing and tasting and having a good time. I think Celebrity Foods will be here to share some BBQ snacks. Didgeridoos are encouraged. Bring beer.

DOZE will be having a summer potluck party at Rachelle’s Parent’s House in Nappa on Sunday the 13th.

The party starts at noon, please bring an edible item to share. If you have any questions, please contact Rachelle

Location: 1006 Round Hill Circle, Nappa CA

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.