Silicon Valley Sudzers Homebrew Club

Hello, Sudzers! In September’s meeting, we learned about Oktoberfest/Festbiers, tasted five Oktoberfest/Festbiers, and tasted seven other delicious brews. Thanks to everyone who showed up!

Business:

• Derek collected membership dues. Dues must be paid each calendar year and can still be made to Derek via paypal at derek@sudzers.org
• Derek had shirts for sale: $5 for t-shirts and $10 for polos. What a deal!
• NCHF is just around the corner, and if you haven’t already, check out https://www.nchfinfo.org/ for info on how to get tickets. Sales end September 11th.
• If you are going to NCHF, then please fill out the details in the planning sheet, and please include how many kegs you plan on bringing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/130pkvjSITD64khCZkJxtkPr5m3MqTfP4sKTKUZL3QdY/edit?usp=sharing
• Cliff gave an update about some past competitions and an upcoming sour-focused contest which he recently sent an email about. Congratulations to him and Cliff for their wins at the Worts of Wisdom Chili Cookoff! https://www.wortsofwisdom.org/chilicomp/
• Robert gave a presentation on Oktoberfest/Festbiers, which can be found at http://www.sudzers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Oktoberfest-history-and-details.pptx.
• All shared recipes can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/cloudyforecast.com/brewme/home. If you’d like to have your recipe shared on the site, then please email it in any format to recipe-share@sudzers.org. Full info can be found at http://www.sudzers.org/?page_id=2910
• For a list of all upcoming competitions, check out WoW’s awesome calendar: http://www.wortsofwisdom.org/calendar/upcoming-homebrewers-competitions/

In all, we had twelve brews:

BREWER          BEER                             IBUs  ABV
Evan and Sara   Novemberfest Festbier            22    4.3%
David           Oktoberfest V2                   20    5.2%
Robert          F--k Fest Festbier               20    6%
Chet            Marzen                           28    5.2%
Charles D.      FES Marzen                       30    4.33%
Cliff           Blonde                           30    5.1%
Adam            Kolsch                           -     5.5%
David           Kveik NEIPA                      ~30   6.2%
Cliff           Solera Lambic                    0     5.5%
Robert C.       Strong Saison                    ~25   7.5%
Charles D.      OH BABY A TRIPLE Belgin Tripel   ~35   7.8%
Anil            Barley Wine                      36    13.1%

Thanks to Steins and everyone that showed up!

Hello, Sudzers! Our next meeting will be held at 4:00pm this Sunday, September 8th at Steins Beer Garden in Mountain View. Hope to see you all there!

http://steinsbeergarden.com/
895 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041

As a reminder, club dues are collected on a calendar year basis. Becoming a paid member gets you a discount at MoreBeer in Los Altos, as well as access to the special members-only events we do through the year.

Agenda:

• If you’d like to pay dues, please send $25 via paypal to derek@sudzers.org or bring cash with you to the meeting
• Derek has shirts for sale: $5 for t-shirts and $10 for polos. What a deal!
• Please let Derek know if you’d like to help design a logo for a Sudzer workshirt.
• Remember, if you brewed an Oktoberfest/festbier, then bring it to this meeting!
• We’ll discuss final planning for NCHF (https://www.nchfinfo.org/). Tickets are still available!
• Cliff will give us an update on upcoming competitions.
• Robert will review the history of Oktoberfest/festbier and provide a tasting of an authentic German Festbier.
• Homebrew evaluations. Remember, bring your recipe – club members will have lots of questions! Sign in your beer along with your name and statistics (IBU, ABV, etc.). The info is optional, but helpful in determining tasting order.

See you Sunday!

Sudzers CFO Derek W’s latest monthly column from the Town Crier:

Beers, too, are going rosé all day

Hello, Sudzers! In August’s meeting, we met a few new members and tasted eight delicious brews. Thanks to everyone who showed up!

Business:

• Welcome new members, Eric and Guy!
• Derek collected membership dues. Dues must be paid each calendar year and can still be made to Derek via paypal at derek@sudzers.org
• Derek had shirts for sale: $5 for t-shirts and $10 for polos. What a deal!
• We went into some details about NCHF and why everyone should go! If you haven’t already, check out https://www.nchfinfo.org/ for info on how to get tickets. If you are going, please fill out the details in the planning sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/130pkvjSITD64khCZkJxtkPr5m3MqTfP4sKTKUZL3QdY/edit?usp=sharing
• Reminder, next month we’ll be focusing on Oktoberfest/Festbiers. So if you haven’t brewed and want to participate, then please do so soon!
• All shared recipes can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/cloudyforecast.com/brewme/home. If you’d like to have your recipe shared on the site, then please email it in any format to recipe-share@sudzers.org. Full info can be found at http://www.sudzers.org/?page_id=2910
• For a list of all upcoming competitions, check out WoW’s awesome calendar: http://www.wortsofwisdom.org/calendar/upcoming-homebrewers-competitions/

In all, we had eight brews:

BREWER            BEER                                  IBUs  ABV
Evan and Sara     Solera Base                           20    4.5%
Mikael            Kveik & Easy Pale Ale                 37    4.9%
Derek W.          Citra Maris SMASH AmerEnglishish IPA  40    5%
Steve & Derek H.  Y27 Saison                            10    6%
Robert            Sorachi Ace Saison                    ~30   5.9%
Adam              Saison(?)                             -     7.2%
Chet              Altbier                               -     7%
Robert C.         Double Double Kveik DIPA              48    8%

Thanks to Steins and everyone that showed up!

Hello, Sudzers! Our next meeting will be held at 4:00pm this Sunday, August 11th at Steins Beer Garden in Mountain View. Hope to see you all there!

http://steinsbeergarden.com/
895 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041

As a reminder, club dues are collected on a calendar year basis. Becoming a paid member gets you a discount at MoreBeer in Los Altos, as well as access to the special members-only events we do through the year.

Agenda:

• If you’d like to pay dues, please send $25 via paypal to derek@sudzers.org or bring cash with you to the meeting
• Derek has shirts for sale: $5 for t-shirts and $10 for polos. What a deal!
• We’ll discuss planning for NCHF (https://www.nchfinfo.org/).
• Cliff will give us an update on upcoming competitions.
• Just a reminder, we’re planning on having Oktoberfest/Festbiers at September’s meeting; so if you haven’t brewed, please do so soon!
• Homebrew evaluations. Remember, bring your recipe – club members will have lots of questions! Sign in your beer along with your name and statistics (IBU, ABV, etc.). The info is optional, but helpful in determining tasting order.

See you Sunday!

Sudzers CFO Derek W’s latest monthly column from the Los Altos Town Crier:

Summer suds: Lagers offer easy drinking with clean, simple flavors

Cheers!

Hello, Sudzers! In July’s meeting, we met a new members, learned about Festbier/Marzen, and tasted twenty-one delicious brews. Thanks to everyone who showed up!

Business:

• Welcome new member, Erik!
• Derek collected membership dues. Dues must be paid each calendar year and can still be made to Derek via paypal at derek@sudzers.org
• Derek had shirts for sale: $5 for t-shirts and $10 for polos. What a deal!
• Derek did the final distribution for Dark Matter bottles to all paid 2018 members.
• Derek discussed ideas for a new Sudzer shirt. Robert will be sending out a survey to gather feedback/ideas on the shirt, but if you’re interested in designing it, please email Derek at derek@sudzers.org
• We briefly discussed planning for NCHF (https://www.nchfinfo.org/). Tickets went on sale at 10:00am yesterday Sunday, July 14th. If you missed them, they will go on sale again at 10:00am, July 20th.
• We discussed the idea of an equipment swap meet. We hope to get other clubs involved and are looking to hold this at a local brewery. Robert will send out a request for volunteers to help organize this.
• The Fourth Annual Firefighters Chili Cookoff and Homebrew Competition (https://www.wortsofwisdom.org/chilicomp/) is open for registration until August 3rd.
• The Santa Cruz County Fair is also open for registration: https://www.santacruzcountyfair.com/fair-time/attend/2019-entry-guides scroll down to the Homebrew section for details. Cliff volunteered to drop off bottles if you want to give them to him at the next meeting.
• Robert gave a presentation (http://www.sudzers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Kolsch-history-and-details.pptx) on Kolsch, and we got to try a commercial example along with six of our homebrewed examples.
• Robert also gave a presentation (http://www.sudzers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Oktoberfest_Festbier.pptx) on Festbier/Marzen; which will be our beer-of-focus for September’s meeting. So, please plan on brewing early if you’d like to share it in two months.
• All shared recipes can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/cloudyforecast.com/brewme/home. If you’d like to have your recipe shared on the site, then please email it in any format to recipe-share@sudzers.org. Full info can be found at http://www.sudzers.org/?page_id=2910
• For a list of all upcoming competitions, check out WoW’s awesome calendar: http://www.wortsofwisdom.org/calendar/upcoming-homebrewers-competitions/

In all, we had twenty-one brews:

BREWER           BEER                                IBUs  ABV
Robert           Kolsch                              24    4.6%
Stephan          Kolsch                              26    4.8%
Elan             Kolsch                              28    4.9%
Cliff            Kolsch                              30    5%
Sara & Evan      Kolsch                              28    5.4%
Chet             Kolsch                              28    ~6%
Sara & Evan      LoKo Loquat Kolsch                  28    5.6%
David W.         Walla Walla Hefeweizen              15    5%
Robert           Lemon Drop Blonde Ale               24    4.9%
Cliff            Rye Table Beer                      30    4%
Kevin            Young Lager Kellerbier              49    4.7%
Derek W.         Shrill Single Pale Wit              30    5.1%
Derek W.         Saffron Shrill Single Pale Wit      30    5.1%
Eric R.          Saison D'ete                         ?    5%
David W.         Saison I                            30    6%
Steve & Derek H. Y72 Saison                         ~30    6.3%
Adam             Schwarzbier                          ?    6.3%
Anil             Darker Shade of Pale APA            45    6.5%
Charles D.       Haze Grey & Underway IPA w/ tea     28    6.4%
Noah             Dank side IPA w/ black apricots    ~40    6.8%
Anil             BBA Imperial Porter                 58    9.8%

Thanks to Steins and everyone that showed up!

Hello, Sudzers! Our next meeting will be held at 4:00pm this Sunday, July 14th at Steins Beer Garden in Mountain View. Hope to see you all there!

http://steinsbeergarden.com/
895 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041

As a reminder, club dues are collected on a calendar year basis. Becoming a paid member gets you a discount at MoreBeer in Los Altos, as well as access to the special members-only events we do through the year.

Agenda:

• Remember, if you brewed a Kolsch, then please bring it to this meeting! We’ll be tasting our homebrewed versions along with a commercial version.
• If you’d like to pay dues, please send $25 via paypal to derek@sudzers.org or bring cash with you to the meeting
• Derek has shirts for sale: $5 for t-shirts and $10 for polos. What a deal!
• Derek will be distributing Dark Matter imperial stout to 2018 dues-paying members. The July meeting will be the last meeting to which Derek will bring the Dark Matter. If you have not yet received your bottles and cannot make the July meeting please contact derek@sudzers.org to make arrangements to get your bottles. Any unclaimed bottles as of the end of July will become property of the club for further distribution, use at club events, etc. Thanks!
• Derek will discuss Sudzers work-shirts.
• We’ll discuss planning for NCHF (https://www.nchfinfo.org/). Tickets go on sale at 10:00am this Sunday, July 14th and again at 10:00am, July 20th.
• We’ll discuss organizing a committee on creating an annual swap meet.
• Cliff will give us an update on upcoming competitions.
• Robert will present on best practices for brewing Oktoberfest/Festbier in preparation for the September meeting
• Homebrew evaluations. Remember, bring your recipe – club members will have lots of questions! Sign in your beer along with your name and statistics (IBU, ABV, etc.). The info is optional, but helpful in determining tasting order.

See you Sunday!

Sudzers CFO Derek W’s latest column for the Los Altos Town Crier features The Booth Brewing Co. in Eureka, CA by way of Seoul. 건배! Cheers!

Eureka’s The Booth Brewing expands beyond its South Korean origins

Hello, Sudzers! In June’s meeting, we met some new members, learned all about hops, and tasted seven delicious brews. Thanks to everyone who showed up!

Business:

• Welcome new member, Noah, Xabriel, and Luisa!
• Derek collected membership dues. Dues must be paid each calendar year and can still be made to Derek via paypal at derek@sudzers.org
• Derek had shirts for sale: $5 for t-shirts and $10 for polos. What a deal!
• Derek distributed Dark Matter bottles to all paid 2018 members.
• Derek discussed ideas for a new Sudzer shirt. If you’re interested in designing it, please email Derek at derek@sudzers.org
• Last month, Mikael gave a talk about Kolsch. If you brewed one, please bring it to July’s meeting.
• Cliff still needs 5-10 gallons for the wild-ale Solera project. If you’re interested in participating, please email Cliff (cliffesullivan@gmail.com) soon, as he needs your beer ASAP.
• The Northern California Homebrewers Festival (http://www.nchfinfo.org/) is coming up September 20-22. We’ll send out a message when we learn more about when tickets go on sale.
• David F. gave a great talk on “Hops: Basic Favor Descriptors and Understanding IBUs”. Check out the presentation at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PXm0gd1ED-BFbRsWz7qCY4trFELIPD0UEGDhA50Zm20/edit?usp=sharing
• All shared recipes can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/cloudyforecast.com/brewme/home. If you’d like to have your recipe shared on the site, then please email it in any format to recipe-share@sudzers.org. Full info can be found at http://www.sudzers.org/?page_id=2910
• For a list of all upcoming competitions, check out WoW’s awesome calendar: http://www.wortsofwisdom.org/calendar/upcoming-homebrewers-competitions/

In all, we had seven brews:

BREWER           BEER                                IBUs  ABV
 Xabriel         No name Munich Dunkel               21    3.7%
 Kevin           Little London Brown                 21    4.2%
 Derek W.        1826 Berliner Braun Bitterbier      60    5%
 Mikael & Bill   BUD on Warp Milkshake IPA           35    6.5%
 Kevin           Beermosa Premix NEIPA               57    6.3%
 Stephan         Melon Man V2 NEIPA                  ??    6%
 Noah'           Pliny the Elderberry W Coast IPA    ~75   8%

Thanks to Steins and everyone that showed up!