Congratulations to the following DOZE’rs who medaled in the recent Gold Country Brewers Association Celebrewtion: Dick Fox, 1st place for Northern German Altbier Dick Fox, 3rd place for California Common Jim Rossi, 1st place for his Munich Helles “Blond Ambition” Jim Rossi, 3rd place for his Imperial IPA “Top Jimmy” Lee Theuriet, 1st place for his Standard/Ordinary Bitter Gary Foster, 2nd for Special/Best/Premium Bitter “Fiddler’s Fart” Gary Foster, 2nd place for Oatmeal Stout “Tailchaser Stout” Erik Beer, 1st place for his American Pale Ale “Three Ships” Steve Olson, 2nd place for Weizen/Weissbier “Broken Tailweizen” Steve Olson, 3rd place for Dry Mead “Orange Blossom Mead” Keep bringing it strong!

This coming Monday the 25th we have our August meeting (same time, same place). We do however have a new topic! We will have Matt Sager give us an off-flavor presentation which will include up to 3 off flavor tastings and identifications. If you want an introduction into off flavors in your (well maybe not yours) beer then come on out. If you have already taken an off flavor course, then we could really use your help in pouring and distributing the tainted beer to your fellow members.

Our annual?multi-club picnic?(for Mad Z, DOZE, BAM and now including the Draught Board and SF Homebrewers Guild) will be held on?Sunday, August 17th?at the Briones Regional Park in the Newt Hollow picnic area. ?The park opens at 10:00am and the picnic officially starts at 11:00am – but you are welcome to arrive earlier. ?This is a family event for our clubs and their families.??Parking is usually $5 per car.

It’s July, it’s finally hot, what better way to chill than to attend the July 28 meeting at Lindsay Wildlife Museum! We will have a CCWD representative give us a presentation in the first half of the meeting. We will have BOTM table, a gadget to share, great homebrew to share, and some discussion about NCHF and the annual multi-club picnic. See you there!

Cancel your vacation plans because you will want to attend this upcoming meeting on Monday, June 30th! We will once again have Chris Graham give a presentation to us, and I believe it is about closed system brewing. We will also have Scott Thomas share his experiments with black malts when he brewed several stouts just changing the dark malt. He will share his insights and will welcome your input as you taste the difference in the beers.

?There is a lot of information here! Just click and enlarge it to read. Thanks to Craig D.

Congratulations to all that entered and especially the winner(s) of our GABF Pro-Am competition with Black Diamond Brewing Co. As you know, we were using two different yeast strains, WLP007 and WLP530. We had 18 entries with a wide variety of beer styles. In 2nd place in the WLP007 category, with a Foreign Extra Stout was ….. Brian Klatt In 2nd place in the WLP530 category, with a Belgian Pale Ale was ….

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).