Hello BAMers! This month’s meeting will once again be at Faction Brewing in Alameda (2501 Monarch Street, Alameda, CA 94501) on Thursday, February 12th at 7pm. Gene will be unable to attend, and Mike is going to be busy with …
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Brewing Automation
Thanks to Chris Niggel for a great presentation at our first meeting of 2015 on how to automate your brewing setup. His slides are available here. Lots of exciting announcements (World Cup!), SOQ winners, and many great beers were had by all. See you …
Christmas Party 2014
Hey BAMers! It’s that wonderful time of year when we homebrewers get together and spread holiday cheer by sharing tasty libations with each other. This year the Christmas party will be at Faction Brewing on Saturday December 13th at 2pm. …
Learn To Homebrew Day 2014
Never homebrewed before? Here’s your chance to see it in action and help out on a brew. Saturday November 1st is 2014 Learn To Homebrew Day. Here’s how it works : Current Bay Area Mashers will be organizing brewdays at …
November 2014 Meeting
Next month we’ll be hosting the meeting back at Faction Brewing in Alameda. The head brewer, Rodger Davis, will give us a tour of the facility and talk about the process of starting up his brewery. Bring your brewery related …
Topic for October Meeting
Hey fellow BAMers. Matt Youngblut and Lee Shepard are going to be giving a super interesting talk and demonstration covering the common off-flavors one might encounter when homebrewing. They are planning on purchasing Coors Light (or similar) to be a (bland) …
Speakeasy Brewer’s Wort Brew Day
Rylan Ortiz, one of our BAM Technical Coordinator’s, has been working with the BAM officers, in collaboration with Speakeasy Ales & Lagers (San Francisco), is considering brewing wort on the Speakeasy 15 barrel (500 gallon) brewhouse for the club to take and …
Oaktoberfest German Beer Competition
Call for beer, judges, and stewards Coming up on Saturday, October 4 is Oaktoberfest in the Dimond! This local beer festival also includes a homebrew alley which is always one of the most popular areas of the festival. B.A.M. will be setting …
Cider Season Cometh
As cider season is fast approaching, the club thought that we’d diverge from beer for a second to talk about the styles and process behind this historic beverage. Matt Youngblut, hot off a successful club mead making party on National Mead Day, …
New venue for the month of August
Linden Street Brewery needed to unexpectedly use the room we normally meet in and so that room is temporarily unavailable. Since it didn’t look like they would reliably have it available for the August meeting we’ve temporarily moved the meeting …