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2023 MEETING SCHEDULE

  • January

  • Saison
  • Come share your tasty Belgian beers.
  • Presentation
  • Fermenting under pressure.

  • February

  • English IPA (BJCP Category 12C)**
  • English IPA is the first of our four HBOY competition months!
  • Presentation
  • Competitions: How to enter and improve your chances.

  • March

  • Breakfast Cereal Beer
  • Brew a beer using breakfast cereal as an ingredient!
  • Presentation
  • Belgian Dubbel. This style is the HBOY styel for May, so we'll have a presentation on the style.
  • Bonus... Elections!

  • April

  • American Premium Pilsner
  • This was a highly requested style that should be nice to drink as summer approaches.
  • Presentation
  • Different yeast/fermentation types: lager vs ale vs hybrid vs kviek.

  • May

  • Belgian Dubbel (BJCP Category 26B)**
  • This is the second of our four HBOY competition months!
  • Presentation
  • Electric Brewing

  • June

  • Kolsch
  • It's Kolsch! Let's all enjoy that tasty German hybrid beer from Koln!
  • Presentation
  • Mexican Lager. Mexican Lager will be the HBOY style for August, so we'll have a presentation on it this month.

  • July

  • Anything fermentable besides beer
  • The theme for June is other fermentables. Have a wine you want to share? A mead? Sauerkraut? Cider? If you fermented it and it's not beer, please share it!
  • Presentation
  • Oxidation. How it presents and how to prevent.

  • August

  • Mexican Lager (No BJCP Category)
  • Our third HBOY style is Mexican Lager.
  • Presentation
  • Yeast Handling (starters, harvesting, rinsing, washing, reuse, etc...)

  • September

  • Yeast Experiment
  • Club brewers will all brew the same beer with the only differential being the yeast selected.
  • Presentation
  • Bock. Bock will be the HBOY style for November, so we'll have a presentation on it this month.

  • October

  • Rye Beers
  • Please share anything you've brewed with Rye, be it a traditional roggenbier or a RyePA.
  • Presentation
  • Brewery lab discussion: What does everyone use in their breweries (hydrometers, refractometers, PH meters, etc...)?

  • November

  • Bock (BJCP Category 5B)**
  • Our final HBOY competition month! At the end of this month, we'll be able to crown the 2023 HBOY. Good luck!
  • Presentation
  • Brewfather vs Beersmith : The two major brewing software options compared and discussed.

  • December

  • Stouts and Porters
  • Let's close out the cold SoCal December with some tasty dark beers.
  • Presentation
  • HBOY style for Februrary 2024