South Australian Brewing Club (SABC) is a club based in Adelaide where beer and brewing enthusiasts can collaborate and discuss the brewing of beer at home or at the craft brewing level. We welcome members from all over South Australia.
Are you coming along to our members meeting tomorrow night, 18th of March? Have you got a beer you’d like to present to the members. Perhaps something you’re especially proud of? Perhaps something you’re not quite sure what’s wrong?
Let us know by emailing the club at sabrewclub@gmail.com and we’ll fit you in. There is a limit of 3 people each with 3 750mL longnecks each – so get in quick!
SABC is looking for brewers to have a bash at brewing an Aussie SMASH beer. This is the challenge for the meeting on the 15th of April 2015. Why not give it a shot?
To clarify, a S.M.A.S.H beer is a beer made with a Single Malt And Single Hop. The SABC SMASH is based on two Aussie ingredients: Ale Malt (Barrett Burston or Joe White/Cargill, only one) and Galaxy hops. Brewers are welcome to try their hand at different yeast, self modification of malt, DIY crystal, and of course your own mash, fermentation and bottling variations.
Please advise the club if you will be brewing specifically for this event. If there is significant interest and submission, we will investigate means for offering each beer for tasting.
The Wheatsheaf are on board this Summer, with a theme for the competition!
BJCP Beer Type 7B: California Common (or Steam Beer)
Jade (Wheatsheaf Publican) and assistant Laura (former Stone Brewing brewer) will be helping to judge this category and it will be judged strictly inline with the BJCP Guidelines. The winner of the California Common category will be brewing with Jade on the Wheaty Brewing Corps rig later in the year.
Top 3 placing SABC members are eligible for points towards the prestigious SABC Brewer of the Year.
Dates for this competition are:
Judging: 21st March at the Wheaty.
Entries: must be received by Wed 18th March (coincides with March SABC monthly meeting)
Entry fees will be $4 for first beer entered and $2 for each subsequent entry. To be eligible for the Wheaty Brewing Corps prize, you must be an SABC member.
As a bonus, the current BJCP group are keen to get some practice in and have will judge an ‘other’ category to find the best of the rest. Just be sure to nominate which BJCP category the beer should be judged against. No SABC Brewer of the Year points apply to this category due to it’s late inclusion.
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 February monthly meeting will be held at The Wheaty this Wednesday 18 February, starting from 7pm. We’ll be out the back as usual.
Expect discussion of all things dry hopping – techniques, flavour and aroma impact, potential problems and more – plus the chance to try some of the best home brewed beers around. Come armed with your questions or email the club ahead of time so you don’t forget.
It’s not too late to get a tasting spot for this month – email the club at sabrewclub@gmail.com with details.
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.