Silicon Valley Sudzers Homebrew Club
The Homebrew Club of Silicon Valley
On Tuesday, October 27, Andrew Carroll from the HeadQuarters homebrew club and Derek Wolfgram from the Sudzers will present an introduction to homebrewing, including history, ingredients, techniques, equipment, beer styles, recipe formulation, and more! The workshop will be held at 7 pm at 695 Moreland Way in Santa Clara. To register, please visit http://www.santaclaraca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/18514/41. Hope to see you there! The slide deck is available for download.
Sudzers VP Derek W’s latest column from the Los Altos Town Crier:
From Firestone Walker to Lost Abbey, a personal list of California’s best beers
Hi,
This month’s club meeting will be on Sunday Oct 18 at Steins at 4PM.
Cheers,
Pranab.
Hi,
This months Thirsty Third Thursday will be on Oct 15 at East Coast Alice in Saratoga.
14560 Big Basin Way, Saratoga, CA 95070
Cheers,
Pranab.
Sudzers COO Derek W’s latest monthly column for the Town Crier features Cleophus Quealy Brewing in San Leandro. Cheers!
Unique Cleophus Quealy brews pair well with diverse local cuisine
For those attending the Northern California Homebrewers Festival the weekend of September 18, please join the Google Group for communications about the festival. Add your contact information, as well as beers, food, and gear you plan to bring to the Google Doc so that we can plan the booth and make sure we have enough taps available. The theme this year is Prohibition, and a small planning group headed by Steve Hutzler (NCHF chair) and Mike Conant (Chief Events Officer) have been working on a theme for the club presence.
The hospitality of the staff of Stein’s was fantastic, and we hope to meet there again in September. We were in a large private back room near the kitchen for August, but are looking at the smaller private room for September – less capacity but also less ambient noise. We’re planning on continuing meetings on the first Sunday of each month at 4, but are tentatively planning on meeting September 13 (2nd Sunday) to avoid the Labor Day weekend. More information forthcoming once confirmed.
Club members who attended the North Bay Bus Trip reported having an excellent time, some great beers at some lesser-known breweries, and a lot of face to face time with brewers and owners.
Thirsty Third Thursdays:
August 20 meetup will be at the newly remodeled Campbell Brewing Company (formerly Sonoma Chicken Coop in downtown Campbell). They have tasty bbq and a solid guest tap list, and their first house-brewed beers just went on tap this week. September 17 meetup will be at East Coast Alice, a new upscale diner with, as you might imagine, some east coast food specialties. They have about 10 taps of interesting craft brews and a nice patio in Downtown Saratoga.
Homebrew tastings:
Steve Hutzler brought a brett Gravenstein apple cider from a local
producer called Rider Ranch
Adam C’s Hefeweizen
Rich’s Perfect Kolsch
Derek W’s Tasty Waves Hoppy Blonde Ale
Derek W’s Kottbusser (alt with honey, molasses,and oats)
Rob C’s El Dorado & Motueka Pale Ale
Jim W’s Ron Mexico Pale Ale
Jim W’s Smokin’ Chipotle Robust Porter
Paul’s Simcoe & Columbus IIPA
The July Sudzers meeting is this COMING Sunday at Steins Beer Garden at 4:00PM.
Agenda:
– North Bay bus trip
– NCHF
– Future meeting location(s)
– Beer evaluations
Sudzers!
The North Bay Brewery Tour is around the corner and we are now taking sign-ups!
Date: July 25, 2014, 7am – ~8pm (this is an all day trip!)
Breweries include:
Bear Republic, Healdsburg — Tour of facility starting at 10am, before they open
Lagunitas Brewing, Petaluma
St. Florian’s, Windsor
Baeltan or 101 North, Novato
Travel: Bus will pick us up and drop us off at the Mountain View Caltrain parking lot
Sign-up Limit: 25 people (we have to manage our impact on the breweries we visit), priority will be given to paying Sudzers members.
Cost: $65 per person
Dark Beer competition was a success! Congratulations to the winners.
Dark Beer < 9%
1st Place – Robust Porter by Adam
2nd Place – American Stout by Nick
3rd Place – Oak Aged Milk Stout by Derek
Dark Beer > 9%
1st Place – Bourbon Oak Aged RIS by Nick
2nd Place – Barley Wine by Adam
3rd Place – Russian Imperial Stout by Duncan
Other great entries in the competition were,
Porter by Matt, Black Lager by Tyler, Baltik Porter by Tim and Russian Imperial Stout by Chris.
Annoucements:
July 16: Thirsty 3rd Thursday at Santa Clara Valley Brewing
July 18, 10 am: NCHF ticket sales open
July 25: North Bay Bus Trip
July 30, 6:30 pm: NCHF Planning meeting at Harry’s Hofbrau San Jose
August meeting is confirmed for 8/2 at Steins. Time TBD
At least 9 new Sudzers BJCP judges, possibly more, from recent exam (Derek H and Steve C were already judges). Congrats to Certified judges Duncan and Derek W, and Recognized judges Tyler, Jim W, Elan, Steve H, Adam C, Charles, and Doug H.