Hi everyone, for those of you who couldn’t make it to Final Friday yesterday, we rolled dice to select ingredients for this year’s Iron Brewer Competitions. The first round will be in March and the ingredients are Mittelfruh hops, Vienna malt, and vanilla. The summer Iron Brewer ingredients are Cascade hops, coffee malt, and banana, and the fall ingredients are Nelson Sauvin hops, rye malt, and lemon peel.
There is a club brew this Saturday at Chris Remensperger’s in North Redondo Chris will be brewing an all-grain bourbon porter that earned a medal earlier this year. Mash in should start at 8AM There is space for 1 or 2 others to brew, so let Chris or I know if you are coming and…
If you participated in the Monkish Monster Brew please try to bring some of your finished beer to the August meeting. Henry and his team have been invited so hopefully we can even share our beers with him! We had the second Iron Brewer Competition this year. The ingredients were Peaches, Rye malt, and Southern…
Single-Malt and Single-Hop (SMaSH) beers offer the opportunity to strip a beer down to the bare essentials. No complicated grain bills or hop lineups! They make learning about individual ingredients easy. We will have several SMaSH Challenges this year. For the April meeting we are highlighting dry-hopping. First, the base recipe: All-grain (for 5 gallons): 10 lbs American…
Calling all Strand Brewers, add Nov 11th to your calendar. Come join and brew with the Strand Brewers and Jason @ Scholb Premium Ales. Reserve your 5 gallons of wort today. LIMITED QTY – 30 (5 GAL) TICKETS! We expect to be sold out prior to the event so make sure to reserve your wort…
Congratulations Strand Brewers! We were awarded the 2015 Anchor California Homebrew Club of the Year on November 6th at the 36th Annual California State Homebrew Competition Thanks to everyone who makes our club so great!
Three times a year, we invite club members to brew a beer with a randomly selected hop, a grain, and an adjunct. The random aspect encourages brewers to get outside their comfort zone and brew something they normally wouldn’t try. And just to keep things interesting, the club votes for a winner, who gets to…
Rick WirsingDregs Editor (2013), AttorneyDregs June 2013 - SCHF at Lake Casitas with Springs FireWhen I saw firetrucks screaming in each direction on the highway I didn’t know what to do. All smoked beers? But once we reached the camp grounds at Lake Casitas the air was clear and the weather was just about perfect.
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