Bay Area Mashers Homebrew Club

Author: Gene Wood

  • May Member Meeting – 05/12/2016

    Presentation slides from the meeting.

    This month’s main presentation will be done by our V.P. Matt Youngblut. The topic is partigyle brewing (two beers from one mash) based on a Belgian Dubbel with the second beer being a Single or Patersbier.  This should be a great presentation for those thrifty brewers out there!

    Social hour starts at 7 PM with meeting business starting at 7:30.

    Bring a glass and bring some beer to share. If you have a beer you’d like some feedback on, by all means bring those for the feedback table.

    Also, we’ll have the new BAM hoodies available for purchase. We can take cash, check or credit card.

    See you next Thursday!

  • Q2 SOQ – Wheat Beers

    Congratulations again to our SOQ winners for the World Cup Stout contest!

    1. Patrick Bennett and Brian Buckingham
    2. Aaron Schleifer
    3. Jason Davis

    As discussed at last week’s meeting, we will be focusing on Wheat Beers for the upcoming SOQ – which actually encompasses quite a few styles. Please plan on brewing one of the following bjcp styles (and making sure you note the style on your entry):

    • 1D – American Wheat

    Any of the 3 category 10 German Wheat beers

    • 22D – Wheatwine
    • 23A – Berliner Weisse
    • 24A – Witbeer

    And the Historical:

    • 27 – Gose

    As usual, beers are due at Oak Barrel the first Thursday of the last month of the quarter – in this case, Thursday June 2nd. Please check out the SOQ page on the BAM website for all details regarding standards for submitting to the contest, and let me know if you have any questions.

    Happy Brewing!

  • April Member Meeting – 04/14/2016

    Hey BAMers!  This is just a reminder that this month’s BAM member meeting is tomorrow, Thursday April 14th, at 7pm at Faction Brewing in Alameda.  This month’s presentation will be on the next SOQ, Wheat Beers, by Scott Satterthwaite, a BAM member who has won awards in the past for his efforts in this category.  This will be a great opportunity to pick up tips and ask questions so that YOU might be the person to win this in-house competition.

    Additionally, this month we will be starting to sell the new BAM Logo hoodie sweatshirts to members.  These hoodies are black with a large BAM skull and cross-paddles logo on the back and the same, but smaller, logo on the front breast pocket.  The costs are:
    • Independent (premium) S-XL : $40 cash / $41 credit
    • Independent (premium) 2XL :  $44 cash / $45 credit
    • Gildan (lightweight) S-XL :   $21 cash / $22 credit
    • Gildan (lightweight) 2XL :    $25 cash / $26 credit
    The additional cost for the credit purchase is to cover the processing fees. These sweatshirts are being passed on to you, BAM members, AT COST, just because you’re awesome!
    If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the officers. We hope to see you all there!

  • World Cup of Beer Winners.

    beer glassesThanks to everyone who came out on Saturday for the World Cup of Beer finals.  A blast was had by all.

    Special thanks to everyone who volunteered to make this competition happen!

    Here are your World Cup of Beer 22 Award Winners.

  • March Members Meeting – 03/10/2016

    Hey BAMers! The BAM member meeting for March is coming up soon on Thursday, March 10th at 7pm at Faction Brewing in Alameda. This month’s presentation will be by BAMers Doug Smith and Gary Roberts talking about putting together and building a brewing rig, A.K.A. a “Brew Sculpture”. If you’ve ever thought about building your own complete setup, then this presentation will be full of relevant information for you.

    If you have any questions, please feel free to ask any of the club officers. We hope to see you all there!

  • Feburary Members Meeting – 02/11/2016

    For the February BAM club meeting, we’ll be hosting a panel discussion on entering homebrew competitions, with various seasoned club members discussing their experiences.  As the ‘competition season’ rapidly approaches (including our very own World Cup competition), we’ll cover a variety of topics to consider when entering a comp, including the following:
    • Benefits of entering comps
    • Deciding on a comp to enter
    • Choosing a style
    • Formulating a recipe
    • Brewing / fermentation considerations
    • Packaging
    • Competition logistics
    Hope to see you there!

  • Style of the Quarter – Q1 2016

    The results are in for our next SOQ, and the Stout category came away with a resounding victory!  Here are the details:
    • Like last year, we will be combining the Q1 SOQ with World Cup – enter your beers into World Cup as normal, and be sure to note BAM as your club on the registration
      • No reimbursements this year – but trust me, the high quality feedback alone will be worth your entry fee, and you’ll have the chance to win it back with our SOQ awards!
    • We’ll define ‘Stouts’ as anything in either Categories 14 or 15 in the new, 2016 BJCP Style Guidelines.  This includes quite a few options:
      • Irish Stout
      • Irish Extra Stout
      • Sweet Stout
      • Oatmeal Stout
      • Tropical Stout
      • Foreign Extra Stout
      • American Stout
      • Imperial Stout
    • Top 3 highest scoring beers in any of these categories will be awarded the standard SOQ Oak Barrel gift card prizes (50/30/20)
    • MARCH 9th – a date to remember as the registration / drop-off deadline. Make sure to check out the World Cup website for all the relevant details: competition-details
    Happy brewing!

  • January Members Meeting – 01/14/2016

    Hey BAMers!  The January members’ meeting will be taking place next week on Thursday, January 14th, at 7pm at Faction Brewing in Alameda.  This month we will be having a presentation by Jay Goodwin, who is the head brewer at The Rare Barrel in Berkeley.  He will be presenting on sour and barrel aged beers, as well as pouring some samples of their amazing brews.  Please come with questions in mind to ask Jay, as he is a great source of knowledge for brewing these types of beers.

    If you have any questions, please feel free to email any of the other officers, and we hope to see you all there!

  • December SOQ Winners

    Please join me in congratulating the winners of the IPA SOQ – who were the top 3 vote getters at Saturday’s BAM holiday party:

    1. Caleb Shaffer
    2. Brian Buckingham
    3. Matt and Liz Youngblut
    Thanks to everyone who participated – 22 different IPAs available for tasting was quite the scene!  For those that may have had a different favorite, I thought I would provide the names of the brewers behind each beer (please excuse any spelling errors!):
    1. Matt and Liz Youngblut
    2. James Duerr
    3. Colin Randsdell
    4. Adam Bradley
    5. Ian Carswell
    6. Mark Slater
    7. James Reischultz
    8. Caleb Shaffer
    9. Arslan M
    10. Brian Buckingham
    11. Dan H.
    12. Chris M.
    13. Theo Rohr
    14. Mike Charlton
    15. Jon Sheehan
    16. Fernando Gonzalez
    17. Ben Mosher
    18. Ben Mosher
    19. Tim Milliken
    20. Rob Smith
    21. Owen Imholte
    22. Scott Davidson
    Cheers – and stay tuned for more info on the contest for next quarter!
    Brian
    BAM SOQ Coordinator

  • BAM Holiday Party: Saturday, December 12th at 2pm

    Hey BAMers! It’s that wonderful time of year when we homebrewers get together and spread holiday cheer by sharing tasty libations with each other. Please take note that this will take the place of the normal Thursday meeting for December.

    Claudia asks that we park on the side of the building as to not disturb their regular Saturday tasting room business. Parking Map.

    The holiday party is typically a potluck, so please bring a dish and beverages to share with everyone. We have the BAM picnic supplies, so we’ll be set for plates, plasticware, etc.

    As a reminder – SOQ beers will be judged by popular vote at the BAM Holiday party.

    We hope to see everyone there!