This Monday meeting will feature your best Beer of the Month (BOTM). Craig and Chris Gilmer will bring their Belgian Dubbel beer for your tasting pleasure. We will set up a special table for your NHC feedback entries. For example, should I enter this as an IPA of an imperial IPA? Is this beer a 60-/ shilling or a mild? Please bring your own questionnaire for the specific feedback. We will also be recruiting members for the NHC booth and beer committees.

It is a new year and time for some new brewing information. We just finished the epic BN Winter Brews Festival where DOZE and a couple other clubs poured over 30 different beers at Tasty’s Tasting Room. The line was long all day and the beers were awesome. Thanks to all the brewers and servers that worked the booth!! Tomorrow night we will begin the 2015 meeting with a tasting of your homebrews including a table for BOTM (beer of the month).

January 26 February 23 March 30 April 27 May 18 June 29 July 27 August 31 September 28 October 26 November 16 December 7 (party)

It is almost that time – the DOZE Holiday Party. Once again we invite all members and spouses/significant others to join us and share the friendships we’ve made over the years. As usual we have a raffle. This year with proceeds, we will donate money to the Lindsay Wildlife Museum for their fine work and helping us with our meeting location. As a grand prize we will pay all costs to brew on Craig’s 80 gallon system with your best friends.

On Saturday, November 15th,? a dozen or so Club DOZE members -joined by a smattering of Mad Zymurgists and others- had the pleasure of touring the facilities of the E J Phair brewery in Pittsburg (CA), and trying their beers and the pizza that kept coming out of the newly-installed wood-fired oven.

Three quick announcements: Remember there is an off flavor class at Creek Monkey this Wednesday, November 5th at 7pm. Let Matt Sager know if you can attend. The water testing session will be held on November 11th, Tuesday at 7pm at Ale Industries Pig and the Pickle, Concord. See your e-mail for the google doc that you must put your name on if you want your water tested. Only 2 waters from each source.

We had an awesome turnout for our BOTM each and every month. Thanks for bringing such good beer! The styles were varied as was the % ABV for all the beers. We had 26 different brewers submit beer during the year and I don’t think anybody submitted one every month. First off, congratulations to everyone bringing their beer. We hope you got good feedback and had some fun in doing so.

Meeting tonight will feature BJCP 2014 Style Guidelines, a gadget from Max B., a special beer, BOTM, and Q&A. We will also be accepting nominations for Club Officers for 2015. Elections will be held at the November meeting. Bring your best homebrew for BOTM, and your not so best homebrew for evaluation and critique. Members will give you honest feedback.

DOZE members! It is time to start thinking about the 2015 Homebrew Competitions, in particular the National Homebrewers Competition (NHC). First round entries will be due sometime in March so some beers may need to be brewed early. You can check the Competition schedule that Ray G. made for the 2011 Comp in the links area. Of particular interest are the revised BJCP guidelines. There are many new categories, and some of the old categories have moved around.