Why is the DOZE Club Competition so great? We engage new members into the club life and activities. We promote and encourage DOZE club members to get together to brew. And we teach and prepare individuals for competition in NHC, State Fair, and beyond! Sign up now! See Google Doc for Description and Rules. Team and Style draw during Sept Meeting (9/24). Start brewing last week of September if your style needs the full time!

Join your fellow DOZE members at our first club campout at Doran Regional Park campground in Sonoma County NEXT summer. Campsite reservations open 12 months in advance, so to ensure we all get spots jump online THIS Thursday, June 21, 2018, and make your reservation in one of the loops for NEXT year from June 21 to June 23, 2019. Reservations: http://sonomacountycamping.org/Index.asp Park Info: https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/Visit/Doran-Regional-Park/ Campground map: https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/WorkArea

Here are the two diagrams of the cap assembly for the Growlerwerks uKeg™ Pressurized Growler presented by Roger Laurel at last night’s meeting.

DOZE hit it out of the park, yesterday at the Hops for Hope event. We had fifteen taps and a few growlers pouring, and all got plenty of accolades from the guests. Best of all, as an in-kind sponsor for the event, the club helped raise much-needed funds for a great cause! Hops for Hope is an annual fundraising event to support the work that Youth Homes has been doing since 1965 in providing foster children and at-risk children a safe, caring home via residential care, family-bases services, therapeutic services, transitional living assistance, and much more.

Due to Homebrewcon and the National Homebrewers Competition taking place in the last weekend in June, the June club meeting has been moved to Monday, June 18th, at the regular time, at the downstair community room of the Lindsay Wildlife Experience. For those forming part of the Club DOZE “Operation Rip City” Expeditionary Force –i.e., if you’re a club member going to Portland for Homebrewcon/NHC– there will also be a meet-up and kick-off party at Burnside Brewing Co.

Courtesy of Paul Brown, we have these images of the April 2008 issue of the DOZE Monthly Mash. (Yes, Virginia, back in the day, we actually printed a newsletter.)

From “Johnny Appleseed Helped Spread Alcohol Across America_“_: “Johnny Appleseed was not carrying the possibility of eating apples; his mission was something quite different and more mature than Dis­ney’s 1948 movie version. Far from being the American Saint Francis, John Chapman turned out to be the American Dionysus. No wonder everyone was glad to see him coming down the western roads! ‘The reason people … wanted John Chapman to stay and plant a nursery was the same reason he would soon be welcome in every cabin in Ohio,’ [Michael] Pollan writes [in The Botany of Desire].

From the Brewers Association website: The Brewers Association (BA)[…] today released its Beer Style Guidelines for 2018. Reviewed and revised annually by the BA, these guidelines serve as a model resource for brewers, beer judges and competition organizers, and celebrate the great diversity of beer around the world. Hundreds of revisions, edits, format changes and additions were made to this year’s guidelines, including updates to existing beer styles and the creation of new categories.