Our May meeting is tonight on May 19th. It will be held at Black Diamond Brewing Co. in Concord. The address is 2470 Bates Ave., Concord, 94520. You can arrive early and enjoy beers in their taproom if you want. The meeting will begin at the regular time of 6:30 pm with a tour of the facilities and sharing of homebrew. We will be meeting in the brewery so you can bring your homebrew for tasting and feedback.

We have a meeting tonight, Monday, April 28th at the normal place and time. Your GABF-Black Diamond beers are due tonight. Bring them along with your entry form and bottle labels. We will deliver them to Black Diamond the following day. We will have Jay Goodwin from the Rare Barrel to give us a talk about sour beers and barrels. We will also have a Q & A session in the second half of the meeting (since no one volunteered to give a style talk).

For those who missed it, or simply want to revisit it, Adam Wyss’ has kindly made the slides to his presentation of the Brew In A Bag technique available to us online: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1keb86qZ7OQFM_mA_pyoXdJLsJSzidBYq94BVnt2IaXc/edit?usp=sharing

It is already March 31st! ?It seems like March went by really fast, and now we are approaching April already. There are a lot of local festivals (beer events) in April just begging for your attendance. First off is the Bistro IPA festival in Hayward on April 5th, soon followed by the Bay Area Craft Beer Festival in Martinez on April 12th ?http://www.bayareacraftbeerfestival.com/ ? ? Remember, you can pour your homebrew at this festival and get entry to the fest for your efforts.

Tonight’s meeting will feature a water talk from Colin Mead. A gadget from Jon and the inaugural BOTM (beer of the month). Meeting starts at 6:30 pm. Be there!!

Here is what happened at the January 27 meeting. We welcomed several new members to the club, a couple of which were referred to us by More Beer. We were reminded that the 2014 membership dues are due. Scott Thomas gave us an update on the new home brew law and how it affects us. More analysis to follow. Craig brought in some samples of our DOZE project barrel aged beers.

DOZE Member and future members, Welcome to 2014! Our first meeting is next week on the 27th of January, 6:30 pm at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum. We will have a presentation from DOZE member, Mike Smith, who recently traveled to Belgium with his son. I presume he will give us the highlights as well as travel tips for those of you who want to travel to the beer mecca of Europe.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed the tomb of an ancient beer brewer in the city of Luxor in Egypt that is more than 3,000 years old. Egypt’s minister of antiquities Mohammed Ibrahim said the tomb was discovered by Japanese archaeologists and belonged to Khonso Em Heb. The tomb of Khonso Em Heb., who lived 3,200 years ago, was “one of the most important discoveries made in the city of Luxor … at the Thebes necropolis”, he said.

Support our Donors!! Dinner catered by El Molino.