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.
This Saturday is our Cargill/BSBC event!
Please see our previous posts here and here for event specifics. Don’t forget to meet at BSBC as we’ll have a bus to ferry people between venues.
If you’ve been in contact with the club to reserve a spot, please check your name is on the list and in your booked timeslot in this document. The link should open a Read-only Google Docs sheet.
If there are any issues or corrections – please contact SABC ASAP via email and we’ll fix it up!
Home Brewing entries close this Friday 27th February!
Entry forms, categories and other details are on the website at http://tanundashow.org.au/home-brewed-beer/
Drop off points for entries are via :
Luke Willis , 6 Whennan Street, Nuriootpa
Brewmaker 5/560 North East Rd, Holden Hill
Beer Belly, Prospect Rd, Blair Athol
Beer judging will be Sunday 8th March at 10am in Tanunda. If there are any members out there who are keen to judge or steward, please contact Convenor Luke Willis on 0403 438 923
This is also excellent “on the job” experience for those brewers preparing for BJCP exams.
SABC is proud to host our next major event comprising:
Cargill Malt Tour AND Big Shed Brewing Concern Lunch & Tour
Date: Saturday 28th February 2015
Change to travel arrangements – SABC have arranged a minibus to transport tour groups from Big Shed to Cargill and back again.
So please meet at the Big Shed Brewery, arriving 15 minutes prior to your tour start time, namely:
8.45am for 9am tour group
9.45am for 10am tour group, and
10.45am for the 11am tour group
Big Shed Brewery: Unit 13, 2 Brandwood Street, Royal Park
Emails will be sent to all confirming tour groupings and times in the coming days.
We still have free spaces for the 9am tour, and we are now accepting non-SABC members
Cargill Malt (formerly Joe White) Tours
Times: 9am, 10am, 11am tours commence (max 12 members per timeslot).
Address: 98-102 Ocean Steamers Road, Port Adelaide (Enter through main gate, parking available. Meet at Reception)
Attire: Please wear closed in shoes for your safety
Following the tour, the bus will return you to:
Big Shed Brewing Concern
Address: Unit 13, 2 Brandwood Street, Royal Park
Times: 10.15am onwards (following the first malting tour)
The Big Shed brewery will be open in time for the arrival of the first tour group.
Big Shed now have 6 beers featured on tap. One of these beers will have been brewed with the assistance of SABC Brewer of the Year Greg Wieder. Big Shed staff will be on hand to give informal brewery tours and to discuss all things brewing, and Greg will present to the SABC members briefly on his brewing experience for his featured beer.
Our usual January Members meeting will be held at The Wheaty, this Wednesday 21st of January out the back.
The theme for this meeting is “Picking hops”, as it’s just about that time of the season when members home hop gardens will be ready for harvest!
Bring your questions along and one of the homebrewers should have the answer.
See you there!
Our February regular monthly club meeting at The Wheaty. It’s reverting to the normal 7pm time, in the normal location (out the back) and this week we have a theme which is Dry Hopping. As per our other post, if you have a dry hopped beer you would like sampled and critiqued, please let the club know.
We’ll see you there!
The theme for February’s club meeting (Wednesday 18 February, 7pm out back at the Wheaty) is dry hopping. As well as a discussion of all things dry hopping, we will be enjoying a few tastings on the night and in keeping with the theme would like to offer some excellent dry hopped beers.
If you would like to present a dry hopped beer on the night, please email the club (sabrewclub@gmail.com) with a description of the beer and we’ll select a few of the most interesting sounding ones. We’re not just looking for over the top hop monsters – maybe a rarely used hop variety or a style that isn’t normally dry hopped will make the grade.
As always, we only have limited slots available for tastings so please only bring your beer if you are notified by the club. 2-3 longnecks or equivalent is suggested, and be prepared to discuss your recipe and process.
There’s still plenty of time to brew a killer beer, since when dry hopping fresh is best!
SABC is proud to host our next major event comprising:
Cargill Malt Tour AND Big Shed Brewing Concern Lunch & Tour
Date: Saturday 28th February 2015
Cargill Malt (formerly Joe White) Tours
Times: 9am, 10am, 11am tours commence (max 12 members per timeslot).
Address: 98-102 Ocean Steamers Road, Port Adelaide (Enter through main gate, parking available. Meet at Reception)
Attire: Please wear closed in shoes for your safety
Due to logistical limitations, tour groups for Cargill Malt are limited to 12 members maximum. We do have 3 timeslots available to us. So limited to the first 36 SABC members.
After you tour group has finished, you will make your own travel arrangements to:
Big Shed Brewing Concern
Address: Unit 13, 2 Brandwood Street, Royal Park
Times: 10.15am onwards (following the first malting tour)
The Big Shed brewery will be open in time for the arrival of the first tour group.
Big Shed now have 6 beers featured on tap. One of these beers will have been brewed with the assistance of SABC Brewer of the Year Greg Wieder. Big Shed staff will be on hand to give informal brewery tours and to discuss all things brewing, and Greg will present to the SABC members briefly on his brewing experience for his featured beer.
Complimentary lunch is also provided for SABC members from Big Shed’s lunch menu.
Costs:
SABC Members receive the maltsters tour, brewery lunch and complimentary pint for free.
Non SABC Members $20 (includes brewery lunch and complimentary pint)
Please Note Members need to arrange their own transport to and from each venue.
SABC are currently investigating a minibus for ferrying members from Cargill to Big Shed – further details to come.
Please RSVP by emailing the Club:
Stating your:
Member Name, and
Preferred Tour time (9, 10, or 11am):
Email to: sabrewclub@gmail.com
Members who only want to attend one component please also advise in your email. First in best dressed in regards to tour timeslots, so please get in early!
SABC supports the responsible consumption of alcohol, please don’t drink and drive.
There has been a few delays with this. Some delays were ours, some delays were not ours. Anyway, that’s behind us now! Members who jumped on for our BYO offer should keep an eye on their letterboxes in the next couple of weeks as the offer has now been processed by BYO in the USA and issues will begin to be shipped very shortly!
Please see this updated post for current details.
I hope the Christmas period treated you and your families well, and you sampled some quality beer over the festive season.
As you read this, the SABC committee is busily working behind the scenes preparing a number of upcoming events and meeting themes to align with suggestions and requests that we have received recently.
Please refer to our calendar outlining meeting themes for the coming months.
Some of the meeting and events include a Big Shed Brewing beer release, growing hops at home presentations and a Cargill (formerly Joe White) Maltings tour.
Finally, a big congratulations to Greg Weider, who won the inaugural SABC Brewer of the Year in 2014 beating Simon Rofe by a whisker, in the English Bitter taste off at the Barossa Valley Brewing dinner event on November 29 last year. Well done Greg.
See you at the next SABC meeting!
Cheers & Beers,
Brad Bown
SABC President
Christmas has come early for SABC members with the SABC Christmas meeting at the Wheaty, 7pm, Wednesday December 17, 2014.
Santa (I mean – President Brad) will reach deep into his sack to give every SABC member two Wheaty drink tokens; valued at $5 each. The spirit of giving will then continue and Santa will place an order of pizza with his hard working elves for dinner at 7:30. Guests of SABC members (ie non-members) can also share in the pizza consumption for $10. Fear not SABC members attending the Wheaty components of beer event, a subsequent pizza order will be placed when the event concludes.
Please note, there won’t be any tastings or meeting formalities on the night.
Happy Holidays to all and don’t get caught under the mistletoe with Santa!