The Bistro’s Hop Rhizome Festival Come to the Hop Rhizome Festival and buy some actual hop roots to grow your own – Saturday, April 12, 2008 – 11am we will have a wonderful selection of HOPPY beers on tap as well as BBQ and music all day. The Bistro in Hayward

B3’s Jon Plise warns us: If you are thinking about growing hops this year you have to order them on line (www.morebeer.com) as part of our pre-order sale.You’ve got about a week to do so. We’ve pretty much maxed out our supplier and we have the ability to up our order pending how many we sell during our pre-order. Whatever you order online at this point we cannot guarantee your order will be completely filled but you should get something to grow.

Club maven Erik has put together a PDF club newsletter. Grab yourself a copy.

The Boston Beer Company, has shipped several kegs of the 2007 Longshot Double IPA that they brewed on their pilot system. Join me at the E. J Phair Alehouse, Thursday, February 21st at 7PM to try this 9.5% hop-bomb. I’d love to see you all there! Mike

12th Anniversary Boonville Beer Festival Date: May 10, 2008 Times:Taps open from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ; Music until 6:00 p.m. Place:Mendocino County Fairgrounds ; 14400 Hwy 128; Boonville, CA

Greetings Dozers.? This year’s hop shortage is old news by now, but the question remains who has the hops I need? Today I came across a Hop Availability Chart.? If you’re looking for something in particular, and they’re not available at your favorite LHBS, this chart might come in handy.

The Trappist will have the ABT 12, Triple & Wit on Tap and limited supply of the 60th Anniversary ABT in 750ml Bottles for $16 Buy your first Beer with the Glass for $10. (Glass is $4) Refills of St Bernardus are then only $5. More info at The Trapist Website

We have our first batch of pics from NCHF 2007 online, thanks Dick. As always, if you have club photos you can either upload them to Flickr with the tag “clubdoze” or you can burn them to a CD and bring them to any meeting.

The Beer style for January is “Perfect Porter”, Gary Foster will give a rundown of the style in preperation for the March/April Club only competition. Dick Fox will be giving the tech talk Barrels & Beer.

Once again, the DOZE Holiday Party is upon us! We’ll be getting together on Monday December 10 in the Community Room of the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek. The party will run from 6:00 to 10:00pm. Dick Fox has graciously offered to handle dinner, catered by Bo’s BBQ from Lafayette. Anyone who’s been around a while may recall that Bo catered our party back in 2004, and it was awesome.