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.
For the September monthly meeting, we have Brendan, Nick and Lachlan talking all things tech in brewing.
They will demonstrate several hardware and software solutions that can make the home brewing process just that little bit easier and help you keep track of your fermentation even when you’re away.
There will be digital hydrometers, internet-connected fermentation fridges, Pi’s, Plaato’s, cloud APIs, smartphone keg management tools and online tap lists and even a guest appearance by Alexa.
The Champion Brewer title for 2021 went to SABC member Brendan Macey!
He not only took home the perpetual Mike Leupold trophy but also a huge prize pack thanks to our friends at BeerCo.com
Best Beer of Show went to Allan Rowland, who has won the opportunity to collaborate on a brew with the guys at Western Ridge Brewing Collective.
Thanks as always to the Wheatsheaf Hotel for hosting the awards presentation, and to all the other SABSOSA sponsors for their support. (go on, click and see them all)
Results are now published on the entry portal and scoresheets are available for download.
Login to your account, scroll down to see your entries and then click the blue pdf icon to the right of each entry to download the scoresheets. https://enter.sabsosa.com.au
Howdy. It’s been a big beer week for us. SABSOSA had over 380 entries and thanks to the team who collected them all up from drop off venues and at the Irish Club on Saturday. Judging is this weekend. Again, we need help. If you can judge, please register in the portal enter.sabsosa.com.au or talk to Gary and the team on Wednesday night.
Yes, Wednesday night. We’re back IRL, in person, in skin. 7pm at the Wheaty.
We’ll knock over our AGM requirements swiftly. Nominations are still open at info@sabrewcom or on the night. If you’ve got ideas about things the club could do and steer in the future, put your hand up. We welcome you.
After that, we’ll be getting on to the ‘supermarket challenge beers’ tasting. They’re had an extra month to condition and by all accounts they’re drinkable.
Other than that, we’ve got nothing else.
A reminder that we have a closed Facebook Group for members to communicate and we share info. If you didn’t know or haven’t got around to joining, let us know at info@sabrew.com.au and we’ll get you in.
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.
