January 2016 Edition of The Dregs

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…

Tonight’s Meeting is a Field Trip Meeting! Reminder: Tonight’s meeting will be held at Scholb Premium Ales at 7pm. Address: 2964 Columbia St. Torrance, CA 90503 *Remember to bring your Iron Brewer Entries! **We will be collaborating on a monster brew recipe at tonight’s meeting. Hope to see everyone!

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…

Here is our Submission to the California State Homebrew club of the Year: SBC_2014_rev1 Thanks to Steve Fafard, Bob Wilson, Rick Wirsing, and Jason Light for all their help with the charts.  Thanks also to Rick Wirsing for capturing and sorting all the pictures of Strand Brewers Club events this year and also to Rives Borland…

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,…

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…