The Vancouver Homebrewers Association

VanBrewers Awards Night at the Rickshaw Theatre! May 21st

Graham With — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:33:43 +0000

Tickets are now on sale for VanBrewers Awards Night, taking place Monday, May 21st at The Rickshaw Theatre, 254 East Hastings. Doors at 7pm, Awards around 8:00. We've got lots of great beer lined and it should be a ton of fun. This event is open to anyone so bring your friends!

http://www.liveatrickshaw.com/113/van-brewers-2012-homebrew-awards-night/

Next meeting: Thursday, April 26th

aardvark — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:47:28 +0000

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, April 26th at 7pm at the usual location; see the event page for a map, or check out the Facebook page. This month, Rodney will be talking about growing hops...perfect for spring! We'll be doing our usual sample of homebrews, of course, and taking entries for the April club challenge. As ever, new members are most welcome. We hope to see you there!

2012 VanBrewer Awards

Nathaniel Senff — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:26:39 +0000

The Vancouver Homebrewers Association (VanBrewers) is proud to announce our annual homebrew competition for 2012. We will be accepting entries from all 23 BJCP beer categories. Last year we had over 300 entries and we are expecting even more this year! Registration opens Sunday, April 1st and deadline for entries is Friday, May 11th. More details coming soon to www.VanBrewerAwards.ca

Next Meeting: March 29th, 2012

Nathaniel Senff — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:41:44 +0000

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, March 29th at the usual location; see the event page for a map, or hit up Facebook if you're into that. There will be a presentation from Adam Chatburn about mead, we'll be discussing the next club challenge (members only...what more incentive do you need to sign up?), and having our usual sampling of home brews. As ever, new members are most welcome. We hope to see you there!

Meeting: February 23rd, 2012

aardvark — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:05:52 +0000

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, February 23rd at the usual location; see the event page for a map, or hit up Facebook if you're into that. There will be a presentation from Wyeast, we'll be discussing the next club challenge (members only...what more incentive do you need to sign up?), and having our usual sampling of home brews. As ever, new members are most welcome. We hope to see you there!

April Club Challenge

Nathaniel Senff — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:36:39 +0000

For the next club competition we will all make beer(s) using Wyeast 3522, Belgian Ardennes.

A few points:

You can use any grains / hops you want the only thing you have to use is the 3522.
You can make any style of beer you want, beers will be judged according to BJCP guidelines.
You have to specify what style of beer you are entering when you submit your bottles.
You can enter more than 1 beer if you want, but only 1 beer per style / category.
There will only be 1 overall winner, not 1 winner per category.
Judging will take place at our April meeting.
You must be a Vanbrewers memeber to enter the competition

VanBrewers AGM and Winterfest: January 21, 2012

aardvark — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:34:05 +0000

Come to our Annual General Meeting/Winterfest!

We'll be voting in members for executive council, followed by a big sampling of members beers. We are looking for people to take on the roles of president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. Any nominations can be sent to vanbrewers at gmail.com, or announced at the event.

We are asking all members to bring homemade beverages to make this event happen. Judging of the club competition will be take place at 3:00pm, and AGM will be at 4:30pm. Winterfest will follow the AGM and go until around 10pm. The location is 1950 triumph street(the new home of Parallel 49 Brewing Company).

The price is $20 for members and $30 for non-members. If you bring a ~19L keg of beer or equivalent volume, we will null the entrance fee. It was a stretch getting the venue for this so please be respectful! We will try to organize food and may require donations for that to work. VanBrewers T-shirts will be available for purchase as well.

We hope to see you there!

Vanbrewer Cask Night

Nathaniel Senff — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:50:26 +0000

VanBrewers are meeting up at Yaletown Brewing on December 29th for the cask night. Mark your calenders.

AGM announced! January 21st!

Graham With — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:21:36 +0000

Our Annual General Meeting is coming up where we elect the executive members. Afterwards we have a festive night of sampling large quantities of home brewed beverages. We rely on our members to make this night a success, so start brewing beers for this event. Last year we had 19 kegs and a pin plus lots of bottles going around. There will be more information to come so stay tuned.

Next Meeting: November 24th, 2011

Nathaniel Senff — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:36:31 +0000

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, November 24th at 7pm at the usual location; see the event page (or fb if you prefer) for a map if you haven't been there before. As always, new members are always welcome!

We're also looking for more presentations; leave a comment in the forums if you can help out.