2014 SBC Home Brew Club of the Year Entry

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…

Remember the club has reserved 11 campsites and there is room for 6 people and two vehicles per campsite.  We have room for about 16 club members in addition to those who already expressed interest in attending or reserved one of the 11 campsites.  Here is the update from CHA: “The California Homebrewers Association (CHA) Board…

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…

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,…

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…

The idea is to start in Hermosa for brunch at The Rockefeller. We will then will move on to Silvio’s, Hermosa Brewing, and/or Tower 12. From there we will make our way down to Manhattan Beach to hit up Simmzy’s and BrewCo. The final stop will be Summers Bar ending at the Strand Summer Party!…