Since its inception in 2012, the South Australian Brewing Club (SABC) has swiftly grown to become the largest and most successful brewing club in Adelaide and the country. The club embodies a diverse membership of individuals with a broad range of brewing expertise, all coming together to share knowledge and enhance their homebrewing skills. Central to the club’s calenda is the popular monthly meeting on the third Wednesday of each month, regularly attended by over 30 participants, thanks to the generous support of The Wheatsheaf Hotel. In addition to these gatherings, the club also hosts special events and brewery visits in Adelaide and the surrounding region. Find out more on our About SABC page.
All members are notified the AGM of the South Australian Brewing Club will be held on Wednesday, 21st July 2021 at 7:00 pm at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, George St, Thebarton.
AGM Agenda items:
Welcome
Confirmation of Minutes from the previous meeting, 15 July 2020, (read here).
President’s Report
Treasurer’s Report
Election of Committee
Club business
All members are invited to attend. The Committee looks forward to wrapping up 2020 and plans for 2021 and beyond..
Please forward any nominations for committee positions or cub business to the Secretary, by July 7th or from the floor at the meeting.
Everyone had an excellent time at our Real Ale Festival. Thank you brewers who created something for us to enjoy at the Hilton RSL.
It’s the third Wednesday of the month and that means it’s meeting week. This month we’re at Pirate Life in Port Adelaide where we will again be their guests and that often means treats and special offers.
The subject is no and low alcohol beers. PL has released their Point Nine, a 0.9% beer, and there are now many 0.0% abv beers on the shelves and they are getting better and better. How does Pirate Life brew them?
Julien has also brewed one for us to assess.
‘Brewer’s shout’ happy hour is from 6pm- 7pm.
18 Baker St, Port Adelaide.
Members only for this one. If you’re interested in joining the club because we do cool stuff like this, join up or come to a regular meeting.
Hoodies and kit
Our new order of hoodies are in. If you expressed interest in one, log in to the shop and grab it. If they’re not bought soon they’ll be released to the wider club.
Our next big club event is our Real Ale Festival this coming Saturday night. It’s free for members and $10 for invited guests – members have to buy their tickets.
Please book now. Partners who are non-drinking designated drivers are OK without a ticket.
Our members have brewed a range of British ales for us to enjoy. BYO food – Uber eats, share a pizza, bring a picnic to eat for yourself.
The venue is the Hilton RSL – 147 Sir Donald Bradman Dr, Hilton SA 5033.
It’s a great little venue with a very ‘pub’ feel to it. Bring your darts and coins for cheap pool. Their bar will be open for wine or other beer.
If you have anything that you think would help, please let us know – info@sabrew.com
Note: we’ll only be serving the beers brewed specifically for this event – there won’t be any BYO kegs. We won’t have any ice or co2 for them anyway because. Real Ale!
Our Wednesday meeting in June will be at Pirate Life where we will again be their guests and that often means treats and special offers.
The subject is no and low alcohol beers. PL have released a 0.9 beer and there are now many 0.0% abv beers on the shelves and they are getting better and better. How does Pirate Life brew them? Member Julien has also brewed one for us to assess.
‘Brewer’s shout’ happy hour is from 6pm- 7pm.
18 Baker St, Port Adelaide.
Hoodies and kit
Our new order of hoodies are in. They’ll be available to buy online soon. https://shop.sabrew.com/product-category/swag/ Order ASAP and don’t miss out.
The club monthly meeting is this Wednesday at the Wheaty. If you’ve just joined the club, jump in. There are always new members at our meetings. We meet from 7pm in the back area of the pub.
It’s a Q&A session. Bring along your most burning homebrewing question and get an answer from the member brains trust. It can be anonymous so you can get an answer without feeling like it’s below us.
On the night you’ll be able to ask a question online or post it now.
We’ll be having a proper crack at tasting the Flanders Red Ale brewing by the club and barrel-aged.
Supermarket Challenge
We announced on Facebook that we’re doing a fun ‘supermarket will it brew challenge’. Get a team together or join one on Wednesday and help brew a beer using the ingredients in the mystery bag.
We’ll give each team some credit to buy regular beer ingredients too. Your creations will be tasted in July, so there’s two months to brew and condition.
SABC Real Ale Fest
Our next big club event is our Real Ale Festival on June 5. Our members have brewed a range of British ales for us to enjoy. The venue is the Hilton RSL – 147 Sir Donald Bradman Dr, Hilton SA 5033.
BYO food – Uber eats, share a pizza, bring a picnic to eat for yourself.
It’s a great little venue with a very ‘pub’ feel to it. Bring your darts and coins for cheap pool. Their bar will be open for wine or other beer.
If you have anything that you think would help, please reach out – info@sabrew.com
Note: we’ll only be serving the beers brewed specifically for this event – there won’t be any BYO kegs. We won’t have any ice or co2 for them anyway because. Real Ale!
Our regular monthly meeting is in this week at The Wheaty from 7pm.
Gary Waters will be covering aspects of the BJCP qualification including Guidelines of how to categorise your beer, how to improve your beer and judge other brewers beers appropriately.
If you want to become BJCP accredited by joining the next intake, improve your judging or even learn how judging can make you a better brewer, this meeting is for you.
Please email the club at info@sabrew.com if you can bring a beer to the next meeting.
And, as always (if you haven’t drank it all over the holiday period!) Bottle Bingo is back on – bring a bottle, take a bottle!
We’re pleased to announce the inaugural SABC Real Ale Fest! It will be on Satuday, June 5. This means the BeerBQ event in the calendar is being replaced with this new event idea.
The theme for this event will be classic British beer styles that have been cask-conditioned and served using traditional methods such as hand-pumps or gravity fed.
Real ale is a tricky beer to have available at home given the unusual equipment, methods and fast staling due to oxygen intake. An event like this is an excellent opportunity for the club to get together and enjoy the cask ale experience.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Events like this can’t happen without member support. We need five members to put there hand up and brew a batch specifically for this event.
The club will cover the cost of the ingredients and we’ll work with you to ensure a diverse range of styles. We can help arrange kegging equipment if you don’t have any.
If you would like to put you hand up to brew please let us know – info@sabrew.com
Real Ale Fest Cask Bar We still need a dedicated bar due to covid restrictions, but this is a cask bar so we need some specialist equipment. The types of things we need are: Beer engines Casks Cask breathers Beer bags Corny kegs with a straight dip tube
If you have anything that you think would help, please reach out – info@sabrew.com
Note: we’ll only be serving the 5 member beers brewed specifically for this event – there won’t be any BYO kegs. We won’t have any ice or co2 for them anyway because.. Real Ale!
Venue We haven’t settled on a venue just yet. If you know of one that allows BYO alcohol, please reach out.
Event details:
Date: Saturday, June 5th Venue: TBD Catering: Food will not be provided at this event, however you will be welcome to BYO or order in. Homebrew: You’re welcome to bring bottles to share.
It’s time to ready your kegs and cubes as our barrel project beer is ready to take home. The filling day will be Saturday 17th April from 10am to 12pm at Gavin Pennell’s home where the barrel has been housed.
Please bring a keg or cube to fill. We will not be bottle filling at the venue. Contact Gavin on 0412107107 if you’ve forgotten the address.
I have noted that the following brewers were involved: Jason Armfield Ossie Herbert Gavin Pennell Leon V James T/ B Trenwith Nick McAuley Luke O’Brien Sam / Luke Beard Craig Blesing Gerard Flynn Andrew Dane Mevius
SABC Winter Competition
Everything you need to know about the competition and rules are on the club’s website competition page https://sabrew.com/competitions/
It will focus on all things Lager. No other beer styles are being judged.
The winning beer, along with coveted “brewer of the year” points, will also get a special limited edition version of their winning beer released exclusively on tap at The Suburban Brew later in the year.
Of course, the winning brewer will be invited to help brew their beer at Suburban.
Dates:
3 – 10 July – Bottle drop off (strictly) at The Suburban Brew.
14 July – Judging. closed event with accredited judges only.
Wednesday 21 July – Winners announced and prizes, at the club meeting being held at The Suburban Brew.
We’ve made a few tweaks to our 2021 calendar. The winter competition bottle drop now has a window of 3-10 July. Judging is on 14 July and the winners annoucned at the meeting on 21 July.
We are also unsure if there will be a National Homebrew Conference in October 2021.
Thanks to all the members and families who came to our BeerBQ yesterday at the Prospect Petanque Club. We had perfect weather for excellent members’ home brew beers, slow cooked pulled pork in crusty rolls with homemade slaw and some Petanque to work it off.
If you missed out, make sure you put the evening of May 1 in your diary for BeerBQ2. That’s only six weeks away, best get Brewing. (TBC).
As we had a get together yesterday, this week’s scheduled monthly club meeting at the Wheaty won’t be on. Also because it is a Fringe venue. Instead we are catching up for casual beers at Sparkke on Whitmore Square, City. You’d remember their brewer Carla who was a member of the brewers panel at Suburban Brew at our January meeting.
We’ve never been to their brewery/ bar so it’s a great opportunity to check it out.
We’re excited for our first club BeerBQ for fifteen months this Sunday, March 14 from 1 pm – 5 pm at the Prospect Petanque Club, 14 – 32 Buchanan Street, Nailsworth. The weather is looking cool but fine.
We need RSVPs in ASAP so we can plan for numbers. Register here.
This is one of the two club events for financial members of the club (renew here now if you’re not). It’s also our one for families, partners and kids.
If you’re new to the club, it’s a simple concept. We put on the food and you bring your beer in kegs with serving equipment or in bottles.
It’s a great opportunity to meet other brewers and try lots of homebrew.
We’ll be setting up a two beer serving system bar and rotating through a couple of beers at a time. Brewers pour their own beers.
You don’t need to bring any serving taps or gas. We’re supplying it all. As long as you’re using corny keg/ ball lock connectors. If you’re got something different, let us know. Bottles are fine.
For food we’re serving a simple pulled pork and coleslaw roll to keep COVID safe. If you’re kids are picky, bring something along to keep their sugar levels up.
We need RSVPs in ASAP so we can plan for numbers. Register here.
There’s wine and soft drinks available at the bar and the club accepts card and cash. No BYO wine, only beer. Our ‘full winter version’ BeerBQ to invite your mates to is on Saturday, May 1.
You and the kids can also have a go at Petanque with instructions from the club members. They love showing it off so have a go.
John at his brewer of the year award at the 2019 event at Prospect Petanque Club
Thank you to everyone who entered a beer in the summer comp and joined us last night for judging. Congratulations to the winners who all received a Beerbelly Brewing Equipment voucher.
