Category: Events

Learn to Homebrew Day & November Meeting Reminder

LEARN TO HOMEBREW DAY (Saturday, November 5th): As usual, mother nature is looking to make Learn to Homebrew Day a bit wet and chilly, but that isn’t going to stop the fun! Please feel free to show up anytime after 8am to help with water and electrical set-up, tent city construction, and to claim the best space in the parking lot. Wear layers, bring hot beverages, and don’t forget your sense of humor.

NOVEMBER CLUB MEETING (Thursday, November 10th): Be sure to join your fellow home brewers at Home Brew Stuff next Thursday, November 10th for the last regular club meeting of 2022. We’ll have an action-packed agenda for you, including:

  • Debrief of Learn to Homebrew Day
  • Club Raffle*
  • Details on the Holiday Party (Friday, December 16th)
  • Education Segment (Mash Musings by Dave: the Buffering War)
  • Preview of the next Club Contest (February 2023)

* If you have something you’d like to contribute to the raffle, please reach out to a club officer and bring it to the meeting. We are looking for quality beers or equipment ONLY – no clearing out your garage!!!

As usual, social hour begins at 6p, club meeting starts at 7p, and bottleshare will close out the night. Hope to see you all there!

National Mead Day Celebration & Tasting (Aug 6th)

Join our very own SRB mead gurus, Jon and Don, for an afternoon of mead education, sampling, and general revelry. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about how this honey-based beverage is made and to ask questions about ingredient sourcing, production techniques, styles, and more!

Where: Home Brew Stuff

When: Saturday, August 6th, 2p – 5p (or until we run out of mead)

What: Bring a mead to share or just bring yourself, a friend, and your curiosity

Hop Farm Tour

Gooding Farms has invited us to tour their hop farm.

When: Saturday April 16th at 10:00 a.m.

Gooding Farms is located at 23669 Batt Corner Rd, Parma, ID.

It is a little over an hours drive to the farm from Boise. For those wishing to carpool meet at the Homebrew Stuff parking lot at 8:30. We can caravan from there. Please enter your name in this Sign-up Sheet (on the Gooding Farm tab) if you are interested in car sharing as a driver or a passenger. More details about the event and carpooling will be available at the April 14th Club meeting.

BJCP Tasting Exam Practice Session (3/16)

Hello aspiring BJCP judges!

Now that Beer School has ended, we know some of you may be looking for some final ways to prepare for the Tasting Exam on 3/19. If you are interested in getting together for some live beer judging practice sessions, we are tentatively planning to set something up for the evening of Wednesday, March 16th. 

We will meet at a brewery and order beer flights of some classic styles that might be expected to show up on exam day. We’ll walk through some judging best practices, complete scoresheets individually, and discuss our impressions and scores. Practice makes perfect!

Exact time and location are TBD and will be confirmed once we have a sense of who wants to attend (and where everyone lives). Scoresheets and some extra writing implements will be provided but you’ll be responsible for your own beer. 

Please note that this is NOT A SOCIAL EVENT and probably won’t be fun for you if you aren’t actually interested in either preparing for the tasting exam, or at least building some formal judging skills. 

If you are interested, please email me directly (thompson.nic@gmail.com) and let me know whether 3/16 works (we can consider alternate dates), and where you’ll be coming from so I can select an equally inconvenient location for most.

Cheers!