About DOZE

What is DOZE?

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DOZE – The Diablo Order of Zymiracle Enthusiasts

Is a group of guys and gals from California’s Contra Costa, Alameda, and Solano counties –and sometimes even further afield– that gets together to talk about beer and brewing techniques, brew together, share other aspects of our hobby, and to socialize.

DOZE is one of the oldest (we celebrated our 25th anniversary in 2021), largest, and most active clubs in the Bay Area. We plan events, group brews, and classes, we organize pub crawls and brewery visits, taste test member’s submissions, and talk about one of our favorite hobbies… often over a beer.

Education is also a big emphasis, and members also volunteer to research and talk at club meetings about some aspect of brewing, whether it is technique, ingredients, history or equipment.

In 2022-2023, DOZE …

  • Earned the California State Fair “Golden Bear” Best-of-Show Club Award
  • Helped raise funds for foster youth support by providing and serving homebrew for the 2022 and 2023 Youth Homes Annual Gala fundraisers
  • Provided beer for a fundraising event to raise funds to foster research into juvenile diabetes
  • Helped pick 1000’s of lbs of pears for Contra Costa County Food Bank
  • Organized group brew days for members
  • Hosted mead, cider, and perry-making classes and group production days
  • Held multi-day club camp-outs at Doran Beach in Sonoma County
  • Helped organize multi-club picnics at local parks
  • Held group visits to local breweries and cideries (Mare Island, Humble Sea, Morgan Territory, Wondrous, Shadow Puppet, Del Cielo, Armistice, East Brother, Far West Cider, etc) and to Admiral Maltings in Alameda
  • Hosted homebrew booths at the Bay Area Craft Beer Festival in Martinez, and “Tasty’s Tasting Room” at the Brewing Network’s Spring Brews Fest in Concord
  • Shared our brews with the public at the Downtown Martinez Zombie Brew Crawls and Santa Brew Crawls
  • Hosted “Hoppy Hour” at the American Homebrewers Association’s 2023 Homebrewcon in San Diego
  • Took part in the Northern California Homebrewers Festival and campout in Dobbins
  • Held Beer Judge Certification Program courses and hosted BJCP written exams
  • Took on and organized the California Homebrew Competition, in which 383 entries were judged in 2022 and 414 in 2023.
  • Organized pro-am competitions for two local breweries -Del Cielo, and Side Gate- with the winner scaling up their recipe to brew commercially at the brewery.
  • Held internal club-only competitions: Beer-of-the-Month, “Mash Madness”, and the popular Team Competition, which teams new brewers with experienced brewers
  • and much more …

Join Us!

New members are always welcome! As long as you’re interested in homebrewing beer, cider, perry or mead, you will find a home in DOZE. Our meetings are usually the last non-holiday Monday of each month at Lindsay Wildlife Experience in Walnut Creek.