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January 2022 Newsletter

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   “WASH”-INGTON POST            January 2021

THE
“WASH”-INGTON POST 
January 2021

IN THIS ISSUE

 
  • COLOR OF THE YEAR
  • DAN REPORT
  • JANUARY HOLIDAY PARTY
  • SUDS SEARCH
  • EVENTS, MEETING, SOM
  • SCHF
  • RECIPE
From the President
First, I’m wishing all our members, subscribers, and friends a very Happy and Hoppy New Year.
Secondly, I want to express my appreciation to our WASH Officers, Zach, John, Patrick, Zack and Allyson for stepping up and enthusiastically helping to make sure WASH has a thriving 2022, full of great meetings featuring our own tasty beers and the continued special camaraderie we have developed over the years. We had an officers’ retreat this past Sunday to discuss and upcoming events and such. We had many lively dialogs about our hopes and vision of this coming year. I think we all left feeling excited about the club.

I have a few requests to make of all of our members. Perhaps you can make some or all of these New Years resolutions. Please feel free to suggest activities for the club including venues for ourSuds Searches. You might consider hosting one of our monthly meeting. Officers are standing by, ready to assist and help fund your hosting efforts. Of course, I hope you attend as many of our events as possible. Remember….for the most, our Suds Searches are on the first Saturday of the month, and our regular meetings are on the third Saturday. January is a bit different.

The Suds Search is postponed to the second week January 8 due to the New Year Holiday, and there will not be a monthly meeting on the 15th, as we are having the Winter party the following Saturday. Speaking of our monthly meetings, we’d like to make them more pot-luck snacks affair, so the host can deal with setting up and providing the beers, and less on trying to feed hungry guests.

Finally, (and this is a biggie) please and pretty please be sure to RSVP when you are going to join us for any WASH event–it makes it so much easier to plan when we know how many attendees willshow up.
Hope to see you soon!
COLOR OF THE YEAR
by Zach

Color of the year: Very Peri
 
From Pantone:
Displaying a carefree confidence and a daring curiosity that animates our creative spirit, inquisitive and intriguing PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri helps us to embrace this altered landscape of possibilities, opening us up to a new vision as we rewrite our lives. Rekindling gratitude for some of the qualities that blue represents complemented by a new perspective that resonates today, PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri places the future ahead in a new light.

We are living in transformative times. PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri is a symbol of the global zeitgeist of the moment and the transition we are going through. As we emerge from an intense period of isolation, our notions and standards are changing, and our physical and digital lives have merged in new ways. Digital design helps us to stretch the limits of reality, opening the door to a dynamic virtual world where we can explore and create new color possibilities. With trends in gaming, the expanding popularity of the metaverse and rising artistic community in the digital space PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri illustrates the fusion of modern life and how color trends in the digital world are being manifested in the physical world and vice versa.
DAN REPORT FROM OREGON
by Dan
Greetings from Eugene!
 
First off, congratulations to the new board members.  Thanks for stepping up to take care of and lead WASH into the future. 
Second, I hope everyone is safe and healthy and having a wonderful Holiday Season!
I haven’t been brewing much lately, I’m taking it easy on my back and my taps are still full (and I have a backup keg waiting already!) I haven’t been going through as much beer as I used to without my WASH friends helping me empty the taps.  We miss you guys! The Cascade Brewer’s Society is not having in person meetings yet, although an in-person Holiday Party was held and was a lot of fun.
Construction has started on our house. We are enlarging a bedroom on the first floor to be our new primary bedroom and changing a few things around.  The work is supposed to be done in April.  After that, the old primary bedroom will be the new guest suite. 

Our garden was a great success this summer and is still giving me something to eat every day. Fresh Brussel sprouts, baby arugula, fennel and broccoli and frozen beets and beans. When the tomato plants started dying off, I picked all the green tomatoes and there are still some left, ripening slowly in the garage.
 
Wine Cap Mushrooms in the garden
Wild harvested Chantarelles
Mushrooms from the garden

Speaking of the garden, one of the things I did was to put in a mushroom bed, inoculated with some spawn I purchased online. I thought that I would take a while to get established and didn’t expect much until this coming spring.  To my surprise, it started fruiting after a couple of months. 3 times I went out and harvested over a pound in one day. Way more mushrooms than I expected!  The bed slowed way down when the weather cooled down, but I still get the occasional shroom or two.  I think that it will explode come springtime.

I ordered some plug spawn and have inoculated some oak logs with shiitake and chestnut mushroom. They are supposed to take 9 to 12 months to colonize, I’m looking forward to seeing what comes from the logs. I joined the Cascade Mycological Society and have been on my first foray, gathering chantarelle, hedgehog and candy cap mushrooms.  It was really fun climbing around in the forest, foraging for mushrooms. Mushrooms have become my newest hobby!

The chantarelles are delicious, the hedgehogs I found were too small to do much with but the candy caps were a total surprise to me.  They are fairly small, but you don’t need a whole lot to work with.  Their best use is in desserts and syrups. You need to dehydrate them slowly then powder them and use that as a flavoring.  My candy caps are dehydrating in a sunny window on Anne’s desk and give the whole room a wonderful maple aroma!  Candy Cap cookies coming soon! I have a lot to learn and I’m excited to be able to forage for my own wild mushrooms. 
Enough for now…We really do miss you all. 

Dan & Anne
WASH WINTER PARTY
by Zach
It’s been a couple years now that we’ve had to stow away the beer equipment and throw virtual parties, but that’s all behind us now and we are ramping up to throw one hell of a party this coming 22nd of January 2022.
  • WHAT: WASH Winter Party
  • WHEN: Saturday January 22nd, 2022 (set up 2pm) Party starts @3PM
  • WHERE: Chris & Dem’s House: 
2179 West 20th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90018
We have had to make a few changes so listen up, here is the agenda:
  • Everyone has to be a WASH Member to join in on the fun at all parties before the day of the party
  • Everyone has to show proof of vaccination at the party or negative test two days before event
  • Wrist bands will be handed out once we verify you have a ticket to order beer at the bar
  • No guests, everyone will have to become a member of WASH
  • No ticket sales at the door, Memberships will be available below via an Eventbrite link or by purchasing one through Venmo
Links to both Eventbrite and Venmo are below. We have two options for WASH Memberships in 2022:
  • Single (1 person) – $30
  • Household (2 persons) – $50
* These memberships are good for the year of 2022 and get you into 2 parties a year, monthly meetings with food and beer, and a wealth of beer knowledge. These membership dues are also non-refundable and help the club organize meetings, parties, and newsletters like this one.

Some things that will stay the same:
  • Pot luck. If you can, please bring a dish, side, or snack for the party to share
  • Brewers will have their beer on tap to showcase new brews.
  • Food and Beer lasts all night until we scrape the last plate or kick the last keg.
A sign up sheet for both food and beer to bring to the party are linked below.
Please fill out what you will bring on either.
 
Food Sign Up
Beer Sign Up

Thanks for rolling with us as we all adjust to the new changes due to the pandemic and city guidelines. If anything is unclear or you have any additional info to add, please send us a message. We look forward to see all your beautiful faces and enjoying some laughs over great food and even greater beers!
 
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SUDS SEARCH
by Christopher
Santa Monica Brew Works
1920 Colorado Avenue, Suite C
Santa Monica, CA 90404
 
On the 1st Saturday of the month WASH members and friends meet at a preselected beer joint to socialize and imbibe. For this one we will be at Santa Monica Brew Works. 
We might have a carpool option available as well, or take the train.

Beer List: HERE

*** We will be meeting in person January 8th at 4PM.
Let us know in the slack #sudssearch tab if you can make it!
 
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WASH LOCAL & VIRTUAL EVENTS
by ZB
PAST SUDS SEARCH
#MUMFORD
THIS MONTHS SUDS SEARCH
#SMBW
NEXT MEETING
February’s meeting will be at Zach’s home on the 19th. We will discus “YOSOM”
WASH WINTER PARTY
On January 22nd  we will be hosting our Winter Party, mark your calendars.
SS RECAP & MEETING
by ZB
In case you missed us last month, we will cover some highlights in brief.
Suds Search Recap
 
We all met up at Mumford Brewing and enjoyed some of the interesting beers they had to offer.
 
We planned to make another go at a sud search crawl, but somehow we just stayed at Mumford.
We talked about:
  • The army
  • Los Angeles Politics (😳)
  • Food
Mumford
We are all here…
 
Meeting Recap
 
We hosted a mini Holiday party at Bill’s home. Discussed the future of WASH and what is to come in 2022. In addition, we had a secret Santa game.
 
DECEMBER SOM – “Holiday Beers“
BJCP style #n/a

Holiday beers filled with joy, love, and happiness.
We Drank 🍻
  • IPA
  • Porter
  • Beer
We Chatted 🗣
  • Future of WASH
  • Winter Party
  • What we have been up to
FEBRUARY SOM “YOSOM“
by ZB
All the Beers
The SOM (Style of the month) for FEBRUARY will be:
 
BJCP Style #NA
Overall Impression:
“YOSOM” is your own style of the month. Bring a style that you like and would like to share with the club, home-brew or commercial accepted. 

Comments:
WASH will have a limited supply of beers as well.

Vital Statistics:
IBU          SRM              OG                      FG                ABV
30 – 50      5 – 10      1.045 – 1.060     1.010 – 1.015        4.5 – 6.2%

Commercial Examples: 
Bud Light, Coors, Anchor Steam, Heineken, Guin
 
The WASH_SOB_2022 List can be found HERE. In case you want to look ahead.
 
SCHF
by Zach
WASH at SCHF (Southern California Home-brewers Fest)
California Homebrewers Association puts on a home-brew fest every year down in Temecula where we camp, eat, and drink. It’s a blast.

WASH will have a booth, and our brewers will be making several different styles of beer to serve to the masses. Friday and Saturday nights we will have campfires, and there will be other beers to sample both nights.
If you want to join up, please let us know very soon…..We need a count on how many campers we expect to go camping at the fest so we can tell our camping neighbors Pacific Gravity by Jan 19.

The entire charge is roughly $75-90 for the weekend. If you decide to go, please be aware that the first $30 (camping reservation) is non-refundable, the rest will be due a few weeks before the event.

Please let us know your coming and how many are coming with you by clicking the button below.
 
I’m Going to SCHF
Short video about the fest.
More About the Fest:
The 29th Southern California Homebrewers Festival will be on April 29 & 30, 2022. It will be held at Vail Lake KOA Resort, just outside Temecula, California. 
The Southern California Homebrewers Festival brings together more than 40 homebrew beer clubs for a weekend of tasting and education.

The night of Friday April 29 will feature a Pro Pour tasting from special commercial breweries, and a host of homebrew clubs. Saturday, April 30, the main event, has homebrew clubs pouring 11am – 9pm; an almost limitless selection of homebrew concoctions! Some footage from the 2016 Festival can be found here.

Our homebrewers festival is rain or shine! Please see our Terms and Conditions for more info.
Campsite reservations at Vail Lake will be available in January 2022. 

You can register for a 2022 CHA Membership below. After you become a CHA member there will be a link added in your profile under “members only” where you can purchase Fest tickets.
 
2022 CHA Membership
HOMEBREW RECIPE
by Patrick
 
Strata Gem DDH Pale Ale
Pale Ale

 
See recipe on Brewfather by clicking the image
 
BATCH SIZE: 5 Gallons
OG: 1.068
FG: 1.013
ABV: 7%
IBU: 47
SRM: 4
MASH:
150º for 45min
168º for 15min

BOIL: 60min
FERMENTABLES 
10 lb. 2-Row
2 lb.White Wheat
1 lb. Oat Malt
 
HOPS
1 oz. Idaho Gem (15 min.)
1 oz. Strata (Whirlpool – 30 min.)
1 oz. Idaho Gem (Dry Hop – 5 days)
1 oz. Strata (Dry Hop – 5 days)
1 oz. Idaho Gem (Dry Hop – 2 days before package)
2 oz. Strata (Dry Hop – 2 days before package)

YEAST 
Imperial A24

FERMENT 
Ferment at 65º for 7 days.
Rack to keg/bottles and condition at 34º for 2 days.
 
After that…
Drink it!
Happy Brewing!
*Remember we have a home-brew shop very close to us that you can call/email your supply order for pick up. Once you get to the store all you do is pay and grab your supplies. Quick & easy check out.

Southbay Brewing Supply Co.
Website: Southbay Brewing
Phone: 310-328-2133
Email: brew@southbaybrewing.com
Happy New Year!

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Recipe

Courage 1914 & Black Jesus Imperial Stout Recipes

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Presented by Geoff: Courage 1914 & Black Jesus Imperial Stout Recipes. During our WASH meeting I dug up 2 recipes for our SOM: Courage 1914 & Black Jesus Imperial Stout Recipes.

During February’s Meeting we took a looking into the history of “Imperial Stout” BJCP #20C. For more info on that, refer to the newsletter. Here I am sharing 2 recipes.

1. Courage 1914

  • Clicking the link above sends you to brew father. Adjust for your system

Courage 1914 is a dark blackish brown and syrupy beer. Madeira, rum raisins, port, black cherries, hints of treacle and coca. Pipe tobacco and a walnut tannic drying character. A deep and rich drying finish that lingers for ages. Words do not do this beer justice….


2. Black Jesus

  • Clicking the link above sends you to brew father. Adjust for your system

Black Jesus was an original recipe from a Head Brewer friend from the Boston area who taught me a lot. I original brewed this beer just after Easter, hence the name “Black Jesus”. It’s a complex and bold beer with great balance and texture. I usually age this beer for a year plus to really mesh the flavors together added to the complexity.

Giving either of these two beers above a brew is worth while. I have no doubts you will be grateful you did and will want to continue brewing these in the years to come. I usually try to brew “Black Jesus” once a year so I always have some on hand.

 

Enjoy

-Geoff

Newsletter

A Quick & Honest Biergarten Review

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By Sally

Apr 24, 2010

4.16/5  rDev -1.7%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4

This review is for Biergarten LA:

I feel like I’m jumping the gun on this place because we only had one beer and didn’t eat anything, but I would like to get some awareness of the place into the beersphere. Just that it exists is a real good thing and it deserves some attention. They have about 24 taps with approximately a third American, a third German and a third Belgium with a Unibroue and Hobgoblin thrown in for good measure. All we had was a Racer 5 apiece–$6 for 18 oz., $11 for 38 oz. and $22 for a pitcher. Yay for pitchers! That seems pretty fair. Prices for the American and Germans are in that range give or take a dollar and the Belgians are around $1 an ounce. They had stuff like Delirium Tremens, Gouden Carolus, Triple Karmeliet, Spaten Pils and Optimator, Reissdorf Kolsch, Arrogant Bastard and Old Rasputin (18 oz. for $8), but also PBR and Blue Moon. It’s not astonsishing but it’s a good balance. They are trying to offer something for everyone and you can’t fault them for trying to cast a wide net–especially when they are offering PBR but trying to lead that sort of drinker to the next step by offering Kolsch, or Blue Moon drinkers to Allagash White or Chimay. I wish we had tried some food but that will have to wait until next time. It looks like they’re doing Korean fusion food. One of the dishes is Drunken Butt Chicken which turned out to be beer can chicken, ha ha. The menu said it needed reservations which turned out to mean it took an hour to prepare, so you should call before you get there to place your order. I saw one coming out of the kitchen and it looked really good and it’s $15 for a whole chicken. But we might try the tacos and the bartender is in love with the onion rings. Anyway, even tho the translation might not be quite there, the food and beer are and it is wonderful to see craft beer getting more mainstream and especially because they are reaching out to a more ethnic community. Good to see we’re all part of one big world of beer.

Meeting Re-Cap

Meeting Re-Cap 1/22/17

The January meeting was held at the home of Carrie Yutzy, our very own WASH club Webmaster. The style of the month for January was Sours, and our club President Dan was kind enough to bring us a lovely selection of commercial sours to try!

Since it’s a new year, it’s time once again to elect officers for the club! The incumbents were all reelected, three cheers for them!

WASH Officers:

Dan Hakes – President

Bill Judson – Vice President

Raphael Lieberman – Treasurer

Carrie Yutzy – Webmaster

We talked about the SCHF (Southern California Homebrewer’s Festival). This is an awesome event. It’s held at Vail Lake Resort in Temecula, CA and will be on the weekend of May 5th through May 7th. Dan and Anne have a RV campsite reserved, which will have plenty of space for tents, right near the Pacific Gravity camp. If you’re interested in coming along, let Dan know!

More details about the festival can be found at http://www.calhomebrewers.org.

A special note about the event registration. You need to sign up for a California Home Brewer’s Association membership before you can purchase a ticket to the event. It’s $10, but you must be sure that the name on the membership matches the name on the account and the festival ticket. You can have only one membership per account. You must register separately if you wish to buy tickets for more than one person. It’s a touch convoluted, so please ask if there are questions.

Our sour tasting was delicious, and Dan was kind enough to fill us in on the history of the style. The style originated in Belgium. Since kitchens were commonly in basements in those days, the wort was boiled in the kitchen and then carried up to the attic to cool in large, open-air vats. As it cooled, it would pick up wild strains of yeast and bacteria, including lactobacillus, pediococcus and brettanomyces yeasts. These organisms secrete acids, which give the sour beer its trademark tart taste.

At the end of the meeting, we picked the location for the next Suds Search, and Bill was kind enough to offer his home for our February monthly meeting.

We are headed to FrogTown Brewery for our February Suds Search. Located in the Frog Town section of LA (duh!) they are a brewpub and a homebrew supply store. Their website has a list of 6 beers on tap. (Their Beers) They also fill growlers and we will be able to get a brewery tour. Additionally, they offer a 10% discount on grain for AHA Members.

We have been in contact with them and they welcome homebrew to share, so bring a bottle if you have something you want to sample.

Date: February 4th, 2017
Time: 5:00
Address: 2931 Gilroy Street Los Angeles CA 90039

Phone: (323) 452-BREW
Website: http://frogtownbrewery.com/

Our next club meeting will be at Bill Judson’s House, located at 1809 Westmoreland Blvd. It will be on Sunday, February 19th at 4:00 pm. The style of the month will be porters.

See you next Month!

Meeting Re-Cap

Meeting Re-Cap 11/21/15

Meeting Re-Cap: The November meeting was held at the home of Dan Hakes, WASH club President. Great beer with some munchies on the side. A good day in West Adams!

At the October meeting we chose a temporary logo and ask for more ideas. No ideas were brought forth, so we voted again. The same logo was chosen as our official club logo. The logo on the website is now official.

Speaking of the website, Carrie has set ours up, and it’s great. Please check it out at http://www.westadamshomebrewers.com. If you have ideas or suggestions for the website, please let us know.

Our first WASH party will be held at Bill Judson’s house on January 16th, please brew beer for the party. This will be a potluck event, so plan on bringing food too.

We talked about the Southern California Homebrewer’s Festival. This is an awesome event. It’s held at Vail Lake Resort in Temecula, CA and will be on the weekend of April 29 – 30. Bill has reservations for a campsite and is wiling to share space, Let him know if you’re interested. More details about the festival can be found at SCHF.

We are going to start a monthly social event, and we’re calling it the Suds Search. We will be visiting breweries, brewpubs and beer bars in the area. So many new locations have opened up and we need to get out and support our local brewers. For December we are going to go to Southland Beer. They are just getting opened and will be having their grand opening on December 5. We decided to go early and will be meeting there at 1:00 PM.

Ned filled in for Raphael and gave the Treasurers report. We had 7 people pay their dues in October which gives us an opening balance of $210.00.

3 more memberships were sold which brings us to $300.00. Some money was spent on the commercial beer tasting.

The meeting’s Beer tasting was BJCP Style #30A, Spiced Beer. We had examples of all the substyles from this category – 30A – Spice, Herb or Vegetable Beer, 30B – Autumn Seasonal Beers, and 30C – Winter Seasonal. A very nice selection to sample. A standout for me was the Stone Brewing Xocovesa, a milk stout with spices found in Mexican hot chocolate.

See you next Month!

Meeting Re-Cap

Meeting Re-Cap 10/24/15

Meeting Re-Cap: The October meeting was great! Michael, Giannina and their family were fantastic hosts, and the all grain brewing demonstration was top notch. Thank you Campos Family!

During the meeting we talked about the Pacific Brewers Cup (PBC), a great homebrew contest put on by the Pacific Gravity Club in Culver City. Bill and Raphael went and helped out as stewards. They both enjoyed the experience and recommended it to all members. They were inspired to enter and steward at the next PBC. There was interest in Beer Judging classes, I will let the club know if I hear about any upcoming classes.

We looked at a few logo ideas and picked out one to use temporarily on the website. If anyone has ideas for a logo, please bring them to the next meeting.

Speaking of the website, Carrie has set ours up and it’s great. Please check it out at http://www.westadamshomebrewers.com. If you have ideas or suggestions for the website, please let us know.

There was talk about having a party in early January, if you can brew some extra beer for this, please do!

The style of the month was Belgian beers, and we were enjoying them during the whole meeting. Everyone was invited to bring their favorite and we had a very nice selection to sample.

Our next meeting will be November 21, 2015. See you there!

Meeting Re-Cap

Meeting Re-Cap 8/16/15

Meeting Re-Cap

The turnout for the last WASH meeting was very small. So small we decided not to have the vote for the name or the dues. It was a very hot day, and I know several people were out of town.

Thanks to all that showed up, and special thanks to Ned and Carrie.

We had a great meeting anyway. Ned and Carrie had snacks set out for us, and we had a beer tasting featuring wheat beers. It was very educational and we had a lively discussion of the many different varieties of these flavorful brews.

We talked about what to do at the next meeting and Carrie and Ned are going to do a brewing demonstration. We will be meeting at their house again and the first part of the meeting will be watching them brew a batch of beer.

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