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Bay Area Mashers is hosting a Santa Rosa Brewery tour! We’ll be driven up to Santa Rosa in a luxury bus, stop at 4 breweries, having pizza dinner at the 4th one. BAM will pay for the bus for BAM members and everyone will pay for their own beer and food.
Saturday March 10th, 2018
Seats on the bus will be reserved on a first come first serve basis. The process to reserve a seat on the bus is a bit complicated but there is a method to the madness.
If you’re a BAM member as of January 21st 2018 and you want to go
The reason we’re doing this is to discourage people from reserving a seat on the bus, having the club pay to get a large bus, then have people not show up and the club ends up paying for empty seats on a bus.
The reason that you need to have been a BAM member on 1/21 is to discourage people from joining BAM solely to go on the tour for cheaper.
If you’re not a member of BAM as of January 21st, you’re welcome to join us, just order a seat on the bus and enter credit card payment information. You’ll be charged $25. Make sure to show up and attend the tour because you’ll be charged even if you don’t show up (so that we can pay for the bus, despite your seat being empty).
If you’re a guest of a BAM member, either you can order a seat for yourself or you can ask your BAM friend to order one for you.
First up we’ll go to Plow Brewing Company. Next up will be Cooperage Brewing Company. Next will be Moonlight Brewing. Finally we’ll head over to HenHouse Brewing Company. We’ll eat here as Red Horse Pizza has a truck at HenHouse.
Here is the schedule. All departure times are exact. All arrival times are estimated.
10:15am Meet at West Oakland BART
10:30am Depart West Oakland BART
12:00pm Arrive at Plow
1:00pm Depart Plow
1:15pm Arrive at Cooperage
2:15pm Depart Cooperage
2:30pm Arrive Moonlight
3:30pm Depart Moonlight
3:45pm Arrive HenHouse
5:00pm Depart HenHouse
6:30pm Arrive West Oakland BART
Money for beers and dinner
Either eat a late breakfast or early lunch or bring lunch to have on the bus or at the first brewery
Come on out on Thursday for our monthly member meeting. Bring some homebrew to share. Aaron Wiegel will be presenting on carbohydrates in beer and the effect of mash temperature with some double blind experiments on the audience.
The meeting is at Faction Brewing in Alameda. Social starts at 7pm and meeting starts at 7:30pm.
Hey BAMers! This Thursday, May 11th from 7-9pm, we will be having our May members’ meeting at Faction Brewing in Alameda. This month will feature a talk from our very own Ian Carswell on The Grainfather brewing system, which is an all-in-one all-grain brewing setup that is becoming quite popular these days. As usual, please bring a glass and some beer to share with your fellow homebrewers.
Additionally, we will also have a brief update on the Rogue IPA competition from the project leader for that, Jason Davis. A group of ~8 of us BAMers got together recently to brew and submit two versions of the same beer to Rogue, and we took first place with the Raspberry IPA version! I want to congratulate all of those that helped out with the project, and we’ll let everyone know when the final beer is brewed and put on tap at Rogue in SF. We will also be serving both IPAs (with and without the fruit addition) at Thursday’s meeting so everyone will have an opportunity to have some of our winning beer!
We hope to see you all there!
Hey BAMers! Here is the information for the next Style of the Quarter competition in conjunction with Barebottle, Hazy IPAs with Sea Salt. For those of you who weren’t at the meeting last night, Barebottle is a relatively new brewery in SF that tries to focus on local ingredients in their beers. They’ve had two previous competitions with SFHG that have yielded them great results, so now they’re opening it up to BAM and the Mad Z’s in addition to SFHG. The competition rules are:
Hi BAMers! In addition to the info from Gene, this Thursday’s meeting will feature a talk about the next SOQ from Lester Koga from Barebottle in SF. This SOQ style will be Hazy IPA with Sea Salt featuring local ingredients. Lester will be bringing some Bay Area sea salt to distribute, and we will be setting up a Tilt campaign to procure reduced price pitches of Vermont yeast from Gigayeast. The two top scoring beers from BAM from this SOQ will then go on to Barebottle, where they will decide the overall winner from BAM, at which time that beer will be brewed at Barebottle and then put on tap at select East Bay accounts! Mad Z’s and SFHG are also participating in this manner, and all three winning beers will go on tap at Barebottle. Patrons can then vote on these beers at Barebottle, and the Grand Prize winner will see their beer go into full production!
By popular demand: Keefer’s Flanders Red
Hey BAMers! This week we’re having our March members’ meeting at the usual Faction Brewing in Alameda this Thursday from 7-9pm. This month we’re continuing our “Share Your Brew” series, and Robert Ayasse has volunteered to share some of his beer and talk about his recipes/process. As always, please bring a glass and some beer to share.
Hey BAMers! The February member meeting is nearly upon us and will take place this Thursday, February 9th at 7pm at Faction Brewing in Alameda. We will be featuring a talk by DOZE’s Vito Delucchi on the Turbid Mashing project that he and several others have worked on for the last year. For those of you that are unfamiliar about this technique, turbid mashing is a traditional wort production method developed in Belgium. More about this technique can be read at: