Join your fellow DOZE members at our first club campout at Doran Regional Park campground in Sonoma County NEXT summer. Campsite reservations open 12 months in advance, so to ensure we all get spots jump online THIS Thursday, June 21, 2018, and make your reservation in one of the loops for NEXT year from June 21 to June 23, 2019. Reservations: http://sonomacountycamping.org/Index.asp Park Info: https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/Visit/Doran-Regional-Park/ Campground map: https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/WorkArea

Here are the two diagrams of the cap assembly for the Growlerwerks uKeg™ Pressurized Growler presented by Roger Laurel at last night’s meeting.

DOZE hit it out of the park, yesterday at the Hops for Hope event. We had fifteen taps and a few growlers pouring, and all got plenty of accolades from the guests. Best of all, as an in-kind sponsor for the event, the club helped raise much-needed funds for a great cause! Hops for Hope is an annual fundraising event to support the work that Youth Homes has been doing since 1965 in providing foster children and at-risk children a safe, caring home via residential care, family-bases services, therapeutic services, transitional living assistance, and much more.

Due to Homebrewcon and the National Homebrewers Competition taking place in the last weekend in June, the June club meeting has been moved to Monday, June 18th, at the regular time, at the downstair community room of the Lindsay Wildlife Experience. For those forming part of the Club DOZE “Operation Rip City” Expeditionary Force –i.e., if you’re a club member going to Portland for Homebrewcon/NHC– there will also be a meet-up and kick-off party at Burnside Brewing Co.

Courtesy of Paul Brown, we have these images of the April 2008 issue of the DOZE Monthly Mash. (Yes, Virginia, back in the day, we actually printed a newsletter.)

From “Johnny Appleseed Helped Spread Alcohol Across America_“_: “Johnny Appleseed was not carrying the possibility of eating apples; his mission was something quite different and more mature than Dis­ney’s 1948 movie version. Far from being the American Saint Francis, John Chapman turned out to be the American Dionysus. No wonder everyone was glad to see him coming down the western roads! ‘The reason people … wanted John Chapman to stay and plant a nursery was the same reason he would soon be welcome in every cabin in Ohio,’ [Michael] Pollan writes [in The Botany of Desire].

From the Brewers Association website: The Brewers Association (BA)[…] today released its Beer Style Guidelines for 2018. Reviewed and revised annually by the BA, these guidelines serve as a model resource for brewers, beer judges and competition organizers, and celebrate the great diversity of beer around the world. Hundreds of revisions, edits, format changes and additions were made to this year’s guidelines, including updates to existing beer styles and the creation of new categories.

The results of the 2018 California State Fair Homebrew Competition are in, and DOZE has performed admirably, with many of our members’ submissions having garnered ribbons. DOZE members’ results are as follows: Pavel Anisimov: 1st place with a Cyser, and 2nd in the same category with a Berry Mead; 1st with an Ice Cider and 3rd in the same category with a New World Cider; 2nd with a Braggot and 3rd in the same category with an Historical Mead; 3rd in the Spiced Mead category;

This weekend, join your fellow DOZErs on a tour of Admiral Maltings in Alameda. Admiral Maltings is first commercial floor malting facility in California since Prohibition, and California’s first maltster with a California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) certification. It produces a number of malts which club members have tried and been quite happy with. Now, we get to see how they are made on a tour specially organized for our club.