Hi DOZErs! For all the great links and information, here is Pavel’s mead presentation from last night. Club Doze – Mead Presentation

You are in for a surprise on Monday because I (Paul) won’t be at the meeting 🙁 However, someone awesome will lead the meeting and you will learn something new about brewing. You have to show up to see!! Pavel will give you an awesome Mead presentation. Pretty soon we will have more Cider and Mead brewers than we have ever had before!! We will have the BOTM table, so bring your best homebrew for the table.

It’s almost that time of year again: The 19th Annual Northern California Homebrewers Festival is fast approaching! At least, the window of opportunity to purchase your tickets will begin in just a few short weeks. When does the online store open? The store will open on Saturday July 16th at 10:00AM and again on Sunday July 24th at 10:00AM. Ticket sales are done via our online store only, and we are spreading sales over two weekends to help everyone have access to tickets.

Congratulations to QUAFF on winning club of the year! The rule changes certainly leveled the playing field this year as it now comes down to final round points to see which club wins the title. Quaff had the most winners, taking home 5 medals, to win with 24 points. Second place went to Cap and Hare Homebrew Club which had 4 winners and finished just 4 points back. In 3rd place, CLUB DOZE tied with multi-time defending champion Brewing Network with 14 points on 3 medals.

*Updated 6/25/2016 – corrected mistakes and added new updates. With the completion of the National Homebrew Competition this month, we’ve reached the half way point in the DOZE Homebrewer of the Year competition. The current leader is Pavel after his record breaking 6 medals (2-gold and 4 bronze) at the Mazer Cup International in March. Robbie and Vito are both in contention after winning NHC final round medals earlier this month.

Just to make sure you all know that tonight’s meeting will be at Black Diamond Brewery in Concord, 2470 Bates Ave. It will start at the regular time of 6:30 pm, however, if you want to tour the brewery beforehand, then you can show up around 6:00pm and meet Justin the head brewer. If you want to sit at any time during the meeting, then you must bring your own chair!

Here is a link to Pavel’s excellent BJCP study guide. You will learn a lot by trying out his questions! The April meeting brought three new members (Joe, Kevin, and Mike) to DOZE. They seemed very enthusiastic about joining the club to learn more about brewing. Make sure you meet them and critique their beers. There is an AHA Big Brew day at Heretic Brewing on May 7th. They will provide the malts, hops, water and yeast.

Here is the equipment you need if you want to try making instant infusions yourself: Cream Whipper (this one gets good reviews and much better price that the high-end ones) N2O Cartridges And here is the original article that describes the process along with several other ideas for infusions – they are mostly from a chef’s perspective rather than a brewer, but there are a couple I’ve used myself. My preferred technique after a little experimentation is to use two cartridges each for 60 seconds, shaking the whole time; then release the N2O all at once.

May 23 6:30ppm-9:00pm (one week earlier this month to avoid Memorial Day conflict) The May meeting will held held at Black Diamond in Concord – not Lindsay Wildlife Museum. Repeat, the May meeting will be held at Black Diamond in Concord. Reminder: The Black Diamond/DOZE GABF Pro-Am beer is due at Black Diamond before 5pm on May 7th. If you want to bring your 3 bottles and Black Diamond entry form to the meeting, we will deliver it to Black Diamond.

I think I sent this out via doze-news, but thought I’d post it here too… 5 gallon batch Ingredients, Part 1 – Refrigerate 5 x 128oz ounce bottles (5 gallons) Kirkland 100% Fresh Pressed Apple Juice – WY1028 Liquid Yeast Smack Pack in 2L yeast starter 48 hours ahead of time – Fermiad-O (7.5g) – Tannic FT Blanc Soft (1g) – use more if you want more tannic bite Ingredients, Part 2