Greetings Dozers.? This year’s hop shortage is old news by now, but the question remains who has the hops I need? Today I came across a Hop Availability Chart.? If you’re looking for something in particular, and they’re not available at your favorite LHBS, this chart might come in handy.

The Trappist will have the ABT 12, Triple & Wit on Tap and limited supply of the 60th Anniversary ABT in 750ml Bottles for $16 Buy your first Beer with the Glass for $10. (Glass is $4) Refills of St Bernardus are then only $5. More info at The Trapist Website

We have our first batch of pics from NCHF 2007 online, thanks Dick. As always, if you have club photos you can either upload them to Flickr with the tag “clubdoze” or you can burn them to a CD and bring them to any meeting.

The Beer style for January is “Perfect Porter”, Gary Foster will give a rundown of the style in preperation for the March/April Club only competition. Dick Fox will be giving the tech talk Barrels & Beer.

Once again, the DOZE Holiday Party is upon us! We’ll be getting together on Monday December 10 in the Community Room of the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek. The party will run from 6:00 to 10:00pm. Dick Fox has graciously offered to handle dinner, catered by Bo’s BBQ from Lafayette. Anyone who’s been around a while may recall that Bo catered our party back in 2004, and it was awesome.

Anual planning meeting over lunch at our local brewpub Map: Google

6:30pm – 10:00pm in the Community Room @ The Lindsay Wildlife Museum, 1931 1St Ave in Walnut Creek. Map: Google

8th Anunal Double IPA Festival at The Bistro in Hayward. 50 Double IPAs on tap

Second annual Barrel-Aged Beer Fest at The Bistro in Hayward

Our own Mike McDole got a nice write up in the local press, along with prominent mention of the club! Once again, congrats Mike! New visitors should know that our club meetings are the last non-holiday Monday evening of every month, in the showroom of Beer, Beer & More Beer (aka B3) in Concord, CA. Meetings are open to the public, feel free to stop by and check one out before you decide to join.