Meetings

January 2023 Meeting – The Holiday Party

Happy New Years South Bay Homebrewers! The next Headquarters Club meeting is coming up on Saturday, January 21st. As in years past, we’ve chosen to hold this meeting as a post Holiday Party instead of a regular meeting. Certainly homebrew is welcome and encouraged, and we can discuss these beers and provide tasting feedback as normal, but it will also include a potluck. Homebrewers are also welcome to bring friends...
Andy’s Birthday Bash – Cancelled

The following from our host. Hey HQ Crew! Unfortunately we have to CANCEL the party on Saturday. Amber has been sick for a bit and may have pneumonia☹️.Thought it would be cleared up by now, but she is slowly getting better. It’s best that we don’t chance it. We were looking forward to seeing y’all.Maybe do something in the near future....
Andy’s Birthday Bash

The next HeadQuarters meeting will be Andy’s birthday bash, this Saturday (November 19). Saturday November 19th from 1pm-??? at Andy & Amber’s place in Ben Lomond, CA. Festivities will include apps, Mexican food and drinks.Feel free to bring your favorite beverages and/or specialty beers for a little bottle share. Parking is a little tight so we highly recommend carpool or Uber, but we will make it wo...
2022 Downtown Gilroy Halloween Beer Crawl

After a 2 year hiatus due to COVID-19. HeadQuarters homebrew club members were thrilled to participate in the Downtown Gilroy Halloween Beer Crawl this year. As in previous years, the club setup a booth and served beers which members brewed. Excitedly, the ‘crawl’ sold out, this year.So congratulations to the Gilroy Downtown Business Association. We served a varied selection of member beers, including th...
October 2022 Meeting – Gilroy

In lieu of the regularly scheduled club meeting.October 15 HeadQuarters club members will set up a booth and serve our homebrew at the Downtown Gilroy Halloween Beer Crawl. This annual event features 40+ craft beers located in Downtown Gilroy pour stations & home brew beer, live music, Halloween costumes and more! Visit our booth on the patio of the Old City Hall Restaurant. Downtown Gilroy Halloween Beer Crawl e...
September 2022 Meeting – NCHF

In lieu of the regularly scheduled club meeting. September 17 we will set up a booth and serve our homebrew at the Northern California Homebrewers Festival (NCHF). Some 400 homebrewers from 35 clubs will descend on the Lake Francis Campground in Dobbins California. The clubs will erect booths and serve their homebrews from 1:00PM until after dark (until they get tired & close up). The $60 entry fee gets you a...
August 2022 Meeting Minutes

I reported my neighbor, Steve Bueller, is hastily organizing a musical party for Saturday, August 27.This was initially described as an impromptu, sort of afternoon jam session for some of his closest musician friends.But it’s growing into more.The latest count is some 40-50 musicians, not including wives, girl friends, significant others, etc.Some members suggested their interest in providing beer. You’r...
August 2022 Meeting

We will be meeting at the Oak Meadow picnic area, of Vasona Lake County Park, at 5:00PM on Saturday August 16. Vasona Lake County Park 333 Blossom Hill Rd Los Gatos, CA 95032 You’re welcome to bring any homebrew to get feedback.One 22 oz bottle, or equivalent should be enough. At our monthly brew club meeting we will typically cover any number of topics, including but not limited to: discuss style of th...
HeadQuarters Club member brewers bring home gold from the Santa Clara County Fair!

Congratulations to Jeremy & Howard. Jeremy for his1st place with an American Brown Ale Howard for both his1st place for Howard’s Helles Bock and1st place for a Mixed-Style Beer- a German Pils with Sterling Hops (finish, dry) Jeremy plans on bringing some of the 1st place American Brown Ale to the August 20 club meeting.So plan on attending to sample some of this first place beer!...
July 2022 Meeting Minutes

I reminded attendees to volunteer to steward or judge at the Santa Clara County Fair homebrew competition next Saturday, July 23.It’s a great way to learn about BJCP judging as this is a well run, smaller competition, which is close to home. The annual (east bay) Multi club picnic, will be at Oak Hill Park, 3005 Stone Valley Road in Danville.Club DOZE has purchased a permit for us to use the park from 10am &#...
July 2022 Meeting

We will be meeting at the Oak Meadow picnic area, of Vasona Lake County Park, at 5:00PM on Saturday July 16. Vasona Lake County Park 333 Blossom Hill Rd Los Gatos, CA 95032 You’re welcome to bring any homebrew to get feedback.One 22 oz bottle, or equivalent should be enough. At our monthly brew club meeting we will typically cover any number of topics, including but not limited to: discuss style of the...
June 2022 Meeting Minutes

Altho it’s been a while since updating the website. We have been meeting via ZOOM (during COVID-19 lockdown), and in person at Clandestine Brewing and the Oak Meadow picnic area of Vasona Lake County Park. We will update this site from now on, starting with the following minutes from the June 18, 2022 club meeting at Vasona Lake County Park. We talked about NCHF (the Northern California Homebrewer’s Fe...
March 2018 Meeting Minutes

Club activities Barrel project updates We recently emptied a barrel at Kevin’s house. It contained a saison, and we refilled it with a Golden Strong. The saison is full-bodied and has a very strong oak aroma, with an intense buttery flavor. It drinks almost like a chardonnay, but with a long, bitter finish. If I recall correctly, there weren’t enough Golden Strong contributions, so we left some saison...
November 2016 Meeting Agenda

Hey all, We’re gearing up for our last official meeting of the year. We’ll have our meeting at 12:00 on the 19th, then head out to the pub crawl from there. We’ll keep the meeting to ~90 minutes, and everyone is welcome to attend either the meeting or the crawl or of course both. Location – Kyle’s backyard Quick intro (winter events, holiday party planning, etc.) Wood Aged Beer Cha...
August 2016 Meeting Agenda

Hey guys, our August meeting is coming up this Saturday, 5:00 PM back at Vasona (Oak Meadow) Park, same location as last month. The focus of this meeting will be around our long awaited Belgian Beer competition. For prizes I have some glass wear hand carried by yours truly from Belgium for first place, and a copy of Gordon Strong’s new Modern Homebrew Recipes for second place. We’ll have a couple othe...
July 2016 Meeting Minutes

Kevin Lindeman reported: We had another great meeting July 17 at Vasona. Perfect weather and great company. Roger brought his jockey box with some great beers. The main things we talked about were: Belgian Beer competition next month (August) – This meeting is on 8/20. I think we might try to have it at Vasona again. We did the Mosaic comp there last year and it worked out well. – Roger will be setting...
February 2016 Meeting Minutes

Hey all, it was great to have a classic format meeting this month, I know there’s been a lot of events lately so good to get back to the basics. Also great to get the front room at Harry’s to ourselves. Thanks to all who made it out, especially those who brought homebrew. Meeting Minutes Dues – if you paid we still owe you a shirt, I’m not sure we’ll have them by March but I’...
October 2015 Meeting Agenda

Date and Location October 17 5:00 PM Rookie’s Sports Bar Tailgate Room Agenda NCHF review Upcoming events Style of the month Tip of the month BJCP competition update Next club competition – January 2016 coffee beer Homebrew share...
August 2015 Meeting Minutes

We had a great turnout this month, it was good to see a lot of familiar faces and a few new ones (including Mickey…or Mikey???). The Mosaic challenge went great, lots of fantastic entries, and we have a lot of upcoming activities to look forward to outside of our regular monthly meetings. Special thanks to Roger for all his help with the comp, I can’t imagine how unorganized this would have been without his help....
June 2015 Meeting Minutes

NHC summary – tons of fun, lots of interesting equipment, unique people, and great (and just a couple not so great) beers. All the presentations will be posted on the AHA website for any AHA member to view. There were several in depth and educational presentations that are worth checking out. Mosaic Hop distribution – there’s still a few of you that need to get your hops, get in touch and let’s get brewing. Y...