February Meeting – Field Trip Meeting!

When: August 11th 2-6pm Where: MBS Studios in Manhattan Beach Come pour with us at this years Bite at the Beach. This has to be one of my favorite events of the year, you don’t want to miss out. Free entry with donation of a keg. No keg, no problem save 25% off tickets with…

When: August 4th @ 4pm Where: Summers Bar in Manhattan Beach Time for a Summer Party at Summers in Manhattan Beach. Bring your friends as everyone is invited. Tickets are $20 and cover our cost for hot food. Beer is welcome and encouraged. We will have our club bar set up and pouring. Please RSVP…

On 10/8 Strand Brewers Club held the October meeting and the 3rd Iron Brewer Competition of the year.  The first iron brewer competition was coconut, special B, and Calypso hops, won by Steve Gardner, the second competition was for hazelnut victory malt and tettnag hops won by Michelle Nuemann and her assistant bottle washer Bob…

At the November meeting we discussed purchasing a club branded pop up to use at club brews, SCHF, parties, and other events throughout the year.  Jeff and Christy Hoy have done some research and selected a candidate company and pop-up  Please review3 packages for discussion and a possible vote at the January meeting! StrandBrewersCo-Visual 3…

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…

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…