Febraury 1997 Volume 20, Issue 2

More Meeting Notes

Demonstration: Bruce Brazil taught a homebrewing class at Brewmaster on January 18th. The class was included as part of a beer making kit sold in the shop. Bruce represented The Draught Board and volunteered his time for the afternoon session. He used the 3-tiered setup at Brewmaster to demonstrate techniques.

BABO Preparations: John Pyles gave a progress report on BABO. Prizes have been donated from numerous shops; T-shirts are being printed and co-sponsored, and ribbons are on order. 21 judges have been contacted. Stewards are being prepared. Calibration beers are being collected.

Entries: As of 6:45 pm Saturday (1/18/97) - Pale Ale 22, IPA 11, Bock 0, Barley Wine 8, Stout 12, Porter 19, Holiday 16, Mead 7, for a total of 95 entries.

Set up and Steward’s meeting begins at 9:30 am on Saturday, February 1, at Hop Yard Alehouse in Pleasanton (see enclosed map). Awards will be presented after noon. Judging and awards are open to the public.

Show & Tell: Charlie brought his customized digital temperature probe which works well for beer or whatever you want to poke that sharp needle-probe into.

Greetings from the President: It's that time of year again. The annual Anchor Brewing Homebrew Club of the Year Dinner is being held February 8th. The Draught Board is allowed to send four people to this, the best beer party of the year. Since there is no time to select attendees at the February 8th meeting, the club officers have submitted nominations and the following four people have been tentatively selected:

Roger St. Denis, for his unstinting support as both Vice-president and steward.

Mike Wood, for his contributions in putting together the club's entry package.

John Pyles, for all the hard work that he does for BABO (by Feb 8 he'll deserve a reward and a couple of beers).

Tom Baird, for his support of the club.

Group Brew-In Proposal by Roger St. Denis. I noticed all the advertising for the AHA 1997 National Homebrew Competition and thought it might be interesting to actually brew for it. Now that I keg, like most of us, the challenging part is bottling and bottle conditioning. It takes planning and preparation, which is why we don't do it any more.

Our April club meeting will on the twelfth, and entries are due April 28 through May 9. We could taste and score the entries at the April meeting and even collect those deemed worthy to pass on at that time for shipping later in the month.

Check out the Winter 1996 ZYMURGY for all the details.