Tomorrow November 3rd 2016 is International Stout Day. To celebrate several DOZE members will be visiting Shadow Puppet Brewing and Eight Bridges Brewing both in Livermore to do a Stout Crawl. Shadow Puppet currently has their Mocha Stout on tap that was brewed by DOZE members Craig Danielson and Vito Delucchi. Eight Bridges has on tap their Oaty McStoutface and O’Beardsly Stout. We plan to meet at Shadow Puppet Brewing around 4pm and make our way over to Eight Bridges shortly after.
Tonight we will have a mish-mash of a meeting with several speakers talking about mashing, split batches, and getting the most out of your brew day. Bring a gadget to share if you have one. We will also have the usual BOTM. And, we will be accepting nominations for next years officers, including two new categories: Jockey Box chairperson and Event Coordinator.
Homebrew Club Night at Shadow Puppet Brewing.
5-9pm. Friday 10/7.
Member plus guest welcome to come taste out first 6 beers and help us figure out which Blonde ale we should introduce to the public for the official soft opening Sat/Sun 10/8-10/9.
Heretic Brewing Co. is hosting another AHA Rally on October 29. This is a great event where you can:
Enjoy Heretic beer samples.
Take home a Rally-exclusive gift from the AHA.
Meet Heretic brewers and staff.
Take a VIP brewery tour.
Mingle with local homebrewers.
Win great prizes from the AHA and Heretic.
Get free wort, possibly Evil Cousin wort.
Here are the current DOZE Homebrewer of the Year standings.
As of 10/12/2016
DOZE HOY Standings
Brewer Name
Total Points
Total Events
Total Entries
1st
2nd
3rd
BOS
Pavel Anisimov
59
11
27
3
4
7
Vito Delucchi
51
9
12
4
3
3
Luis Castro
51
13
25
4
3
1
Eric Ruff
49
9
11
4
4
Robbie Proctor
42
6
6
1
7
1
Max Brown
28
From what I remember, DOZE brews the best beer in Northern California! If fact, we have a certificate to prove it.
I am 100% certain that every DOZE member at NCHF had a great time this year. We were well behaved at Hoppy Hour on Friday since not one of us ended up in the pool. That was a strange location, but it seemed to work out. Then came our potluck in the lower campground where the food was amazing and there was plenty for everybody.
The 2016 September meeting will include a NCHF update, answers to your brewing questions, gadgets, BOTM, and of course feedback for your homebrew. I am planning on having a little game called “create your OWN recipe”, to see how you are at selecting malts and hops. Kind of like schoolwork. See you there!
The San Francisco Homebrew Guild is excited to host the 2016 CA State Homebrew Competiton this year. We will be returning to Anchor Brewing Company for the Finals this year on Saturday November 5.
Please feel free to forward to friends and/or others in your homebrew club(s) to help spread the word.
The entry registration window is open. More information is available on our competition website: http://castatebrewcomp.org. Please go there to register your entries.
We have a lot to cover in the August meeting!! Besides the regular stuff, such as BOTM and NCHF, we will have a special guest (Mike McDole) who will talk about “Fast Lager Fermentation”. After the break we will have a presentation about temperature control featuring gadgets such as the ST1000, the CoolBot, and the GhettoChill 9000 peltier cooled ferment chamber. And then we will squeeze in a short demonstration from Pavel about a device to transfer beer/mead/cider from small carboys.
The Smithsonian Food History project at the National Museum of American History, in Washington, DC, is seeking a professional historian / scholar to conduct archival and field research for a new initiative on American brewing history, with special emphasis on the craft industry. The position is located in the Division of Work and Industry and will be a three-year appointment. The successful candidate will have proven experience in scholarly research,organizing and conducting oral history interviews, writing for both scholarly and general audiences, and knowledge of material culture and archival materials.
