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.
Don’t forget to get your entries in for the Winter Competition, which is being judged after the AGM on July 23rd. Head over to the Compmaster website to enter your winning beer.
Bottles can be dropped off at the Wheaty in the week prior, or brought on the day, or if you want to organise a drop off with a committee member please email us.
The stakes are high, with the winner of beer of the day getting a brew day at Little Bang! How cool is that!
Don’t forget, there is no Wednesday meeting this month, due to the AGM, which is on July 23rd, starting at 1pm sharp, out the back at the Wheaty. See you there!
We are still looking for a few handy people to help out with the conversion of Gary’s dingy into the winning bar at the ANHC club night. At the moment working days have been scheduled for Saturday 13th of August and Saturday 20th of August. If you think you can spare some time, please contact Gary on 0417 893 321. We also need dispense gear (which will all go back to its owners), so if you have fittings, disconnects or anything else useful please let us know.
We will no doubt have the best bar on the night, but it will all be for nothing if we don’t have beer flowing through the taps. We have some brewers lined up, but still need more. If you can commit to brewing a batch for the night, please let us know. Running out of beer would not be a good look…
A quick reminder that membership renewals and fees are now due. If you intend to renew (and we sincerely hope that you do!), please head over to the sign up page and fill out the online form. You can pay by bank transfer or in person at the next meeting, which will be the AGM. Please note that to be eligible to vote at the AGM you must be a financial member.
The Gawler Show is coming up soon, and the entry details have now been posted on their website. Head over to our Competitions page for the relevant links and info. You’ll also find the dates have been added to the calendar.
Anyone who is interested in judging or stewarding, please contact Gary Waters on 0417 893 321 or Steve Wilkins on 0417 879 774
Good luck!
The ANHC website has gone live today, and tickets are now available to buy. Head over to the website here and check it out. Be sure to click on the Early Bird tab and make a note of the coupon code to use when you check out. Do this for the highest price item you are buying.
A quick reminder that membership fees and renewals are due as of the end of June.
Click here to head to the membership page and fill out the on-line form. The AGM is about a month away, and please be aware that to vote at the AGM you must be a financial member.
We have a need for hands-on folk to undertake the construction of HMAS “Soon To Be Named” for the ANHC club night. We are converting a wooden row boat into a super-bar, with taps, cask and hand pump, and hopefully even a hoppinator.
The following vacancies are open, the more the merrier:
Please contact Gary at garyandlee4@bigpond.com or 0417 893 321
There is 5 weeks until the AGM it would be great to most of the construction done by then and an unofficial launch shortly after.
As the local club this year, we have no excuses not to pull off something amazing, so even if you can only spare an afternoon, if you have some time and skills to offer please step up.
We’re off to lead the Pirate Life (well, for an afternoon at least)!
The next SABC social event will be held at Pirate Life Brewing, on Sunday August 28th. Walking the plank from 12:30pm onwards, there will be a brewery tour of course, plus food and beer. BYO witty banter and pirate shenanigans. There will be a prize for the best pirate costume, and other fun stuff. We’re still thrashing out the details, but the date is locked in. See you there, me hearties!
We are trialling Compmaster, which is a web application, for this year’s Winter Competition, and I’m happy to announce that the competition is now live on the website. You can get to the Compmaster website here. Once the page has loaded you will need to create an account, after which you will be able to choose the SABC Winter Competition from the “Select a Competition” tab, and proceed to fill out one or more entry forms.
The process is pretty straight forward and self-guiding, however if anyone has any difficulties please send us an email.
The Calendar page is finally live, and you can check it out here. At the moment there are only a couple of entries in it, but from now on we will be adding in all SABC meetings and events, as well as any other events (competitions etc.) that we come across. You can export ics calendar entries, which will allow you to add events to your own calendars. If you experience any difficulties, please let us know.
The June meeting is coming up, and it should be another interesting one. This month’s topic is “All Grain vs Extract”, and we will have two beers to compare and discuss, brewed by Luke and Simon, which were brewed especially for the meeting. Hopefully we will all learn a bit about recipe conversion, and factors to take into account when doing so.
As always, if you have a beer you would like to present, please email us and bring along three longnecks ore equivalent. Please be prepared to talk about your beer and have as much info on the recipe and brewday as possible.
See you at the Wheaty on Wednesday the 15th, 7pm out the back.