Spring is the time of the year with the most competitions. The cool winter weather make it easier for home brewers to make their best beer with minimal temperature control equipment, or none at all! Scheduling your brew days with styles that will peak in the spring will give your beer the best chance and scoring awards. If you have brewed your recipe many times, you probably know when your beer tastes the best.

The June 2017 Club Meeting is at Lindsay Wildlife Museum. See Meeting Location for more details. Social Hour 6:30-7:00pm Meeting Start 7:00pm Meeting End 9:00pm

Join your fellow DOZE’rs on a Brewery Bus Tour! We will be meeting at North Concord Bart Station at 11:00 am. First stop is Faction, then Drakes Dealership and finishing at 21st amendment. This is a DOZE event but guests are welcome. Saturday June 3rd Meeting Location: North Concord Bart Station Meeting Time: 11:00am Returning Time: 6:00pm

As discussed in last month’s club meeting, we’re looking for some assistance in creating occasional content posts on the website. No HTML or coding skills are required. If you know of some relevant brewing or beer content and can type, we’d appreciate your contribution. How does it work? See the Contribute page, or navigate there manually from the Members menu at the top of this page.

Triple Rock Brewery and Ale House is hosting the first-ever Nuclear Free Strong Beer Festival on May 19th starting at 4pm – 9pm, featuring the rarest and coolest BIG beers. There is no admission charge and proceeds go to support the Lindsay Wildlife Experience, the museum in whose building DOZE holds its monthly meetings and one of the main wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centers in our area. We can assume, given the name of the festival, that Tactical Nuclear Penguin will not be on offer.

I have our shirts done! You can order them via the Custom Ink webite https://www.customink.com/g/rdj0-00b0-7rvu The prices are set if we sell 40 items, if we have more the price will drop. I plan on getting more than one. The window for the order ends May 15th. The order will be sent to my house and I will bring them to our next meeting or you can arrange to pick them up at my house if you can’t wait.

Interesting work… You Want Better Beer? Good. Here’s a Better Barley Genome

The May 2017 Club Meeting is at Lindsay Wildlife Museum. See Meeting Location for more details. Social Hour 6:30-7:00pm Meeting Start 7:00pm Meeting End 9:00pm

You take the high mash temp and I will take the low… Tuesday May 2nd @ the Sierra Nevada Torpedo Room, 2031 Fourth St, Berkeley, CA 94710, they will be releasing our Collab/Learning brew project we did with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. We ask you try and show up around 6:30pm. The presentation by Paul Hoagland of Sierra Nevada will start at 7pm. He will go over the experiment we performed and we will taste/discuss the results.