West Sound Brewers Homebrew Club

The February meeting will be a Strangebrewary event on Saturday Feb. 15th from Noon-3pm and hosted by Denette and Mike in Silverdale. Please bring your strange, but tasty homebrew concoction in growlers or bottles or whatever and an information sheet with the name of the brew, ingredients and what you wanted to achieve. No commercial bottles at this event. We will then have an informal vote at 2:30pm. Bread and cheese and crackers will be provided. Details are in the Newsletter that was emailed out on 1/21/14.

At the December Meeting we elected our new club officers for 2014. President is Curt, Vice-President is Paul, Secretary is Diane and Vic is Treasurer. Jonathan was elected Beer Emperor, in honor of him promoting our club, our members and our local breweries. Congratulations to all.

The December WSB Meeting is Saturday December 21st from 3pm-? at Jack and Vicki's place near Brownsville. Bring your homebrews, holiday brews and a gift for the white elephant exchange. Please bring a taster glass and snacks to share. We will be electing our new club officers-starting about 5:30pm. President. Vice-President. Secretary. Treasurer. The brew-related White Elephant Exchange starts about 6pm. Gifts could be bottled homebrews, bottled commercial brews, homebrewing supplies or books, food made with beer/alcohol or other brew-related items. Value between $5 and $10. Details are in the December Newsletter already emailed out.

The January Meeting is scheduled for Saturday January 18th.

Strangebrewary will be our February Meeting. Start thinking up and testing some Strange Brews and we will have an informal voting for best brew.

The WSB November Meeting is this Friday, November 15th from 7-10:30pm at Don and Sarah's place in Eglon. The brew theme is Strong and Winter beers. Please bring a taster glass and snacks to share. Details are in the last Newsletter.
The December Meeting is scheduled for Saturday December 21st starting at 3pm at Jack and Vicki's place in Illahee. We will have our election of officers and a white elephant exchange.

The West Sound Brewers will be having the American Homebrewer's Association annual event "Teach a Friend to Homebrew" on Saturday November 2nd. It will be hosted by Curt and Diane at their place in Illahee in Curt's Social Club (garage). It will start at 10am and Curt will be demonstrating a mix of grain and extract brewing from start to finish. The recipe will be the White House Honey Ale. Please bring homebrews and snacks to share. Details are in the upcoming Newsletter. The WSB is looking forward to seeing new homebrewers at this event.
The November Meeting is scheduled for Friday Nov. 15th in the evening at Don and Sarah's place in Eglon.

The West Sound Brewers are organizing a Capitol Hill Pub Crawl for Saturday October 5th, in place of a meeting for the month. We will meet in the ferry building on the Seattle side about 12:15pm. We will then take the #12 bus to Elysian Brewpub for lunch. We will then walk to Von Trapp's, Quinn's, McMenamin's, The Pine Box, Bravehorse Tavern, The Wurst Place and Stumbling Monk. Details are in the next Newsletter to be emailed soon.

The September meeting will be at Curt and Diane's place in Illahee on Friday September 6th from 5-10pm on their back deck. The theme will be Octoberfest/Fall brews. Please bring your homebrews, taster glass and food to share. There will be a grill available.
The October meeting will be a Capitol Hill Pub Crawl in Seattle on Saturday October 5th. We will be visiting Elysian Brewery, Von Trapp's bier hall, McMenamin's Six Arms Brewery, The Pine Box pub, The Bravehorse Tavern and The Wurst Place. Another option is The Stumbling Monk pub. Near the ferry is Pike Brewery and The Pioneer Saloon.
A few members of the club would like to have a version of a stange brew fest - maybe in February. No style guidelines. Start thinking of - or brewing up those crazy concoctions you always wanted to make.
The club will also be organizing a Homebrew Competition next year for June.

Oops, forgot to post information for the July meeting that was at Kent and Lori's. It was posted on Facebook.
The August Meeting will be at Wendy and Oggie's in Erland's Point on Saturday the 10th from 4-9pm. It will be their Third Annual Garden Party. The homebrew and beer theme is Strange and/or Favorite Beers. Root beer and a cider will also be available on tap. There will be smoked brisket and on the grill will be hamburgers and hotdogs - or bring other meats, veggies or fruit to grill - or other potluck dish. Remember to bring your tasting glass. Parking is limited, so please carpool.

The June WSB meeting will be this Friday, June 21st at Darryl and Andrea's place near Poulsbo starting at 7pm out on their deck overlooking Liberty Bay. The theme is lagers. There will be a grill available and please bring food to share. Details were in the last Newsletter. Will be discussing the upcoming Beerstock event in Orting. If you would like to attend Beerstock, please bring a $15 donation so we can get that mailed in to the organizers. Information on Beerstock was mailed out a couple of days ago.
The July meeting is scheduled for Sat. July 27th at Kent and Lori's near The Fairgrounds.

The May WSB meeting will be Saturday May 25th at Mike and Ilene's place in Brownsville/Gilberton area. From 2-10pm on the back patio along the waterfront. Bring homebrews or spring/summer ales and lagers. There will be a grill available for cooking. More info is in the May Newsletter. The June Meeting is scheduled for Fri. June 21st at Darryl and Andrea's place near Poulsbo.