Meetings

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...
March 2015 Meeting Minutes

Kyle’s house in Campbell Thanks all who attended the meeting and to those submitted beers for our competition. Special thanks to Kevin for his BIAB demonstration as well, and for sending out notes already. I thought the competition format worked pretty well, let me know if you have any ideas to improve on for the future. As I mentioned in the meeting, I would like to rethink the next in club competition.�...
February 2015 Meeting Minutes

Thanks to all who attended, especially those who brought homebrew to share. There are a few important notes I’ll include in the beginning here. The sweatshirt and workshirt quote is in, if you missed my e-mail Sunday let me know and I will forward. We need to collect the money for the order before we place it. Please try to pay this week or let me know if you need to make other arrangements 2015 membershi...
January 2015 Meeting Minutes

Thanks to all who attended January’s meeting, especially those who brought beer to share. In Club Competitions The first competition will be in March (so start brewing soon). The challenge is to make a beer using only one hop. You can pick any hop, or if you would like one randomly assigned let me know, and use it however you want. Any style beer is permitted, Reinheitsgebot loosely applied, I don’t care...