Past News

• February 16, 2017: WIZA Collaborative Recipe Project Kicks Off
  

  For 2017, WIZA is undertaking a collaborative beer recipe project.  For this project, members will be experimenting with malts, hops, yeasts, and styles to finish the year with a recipe and some brews to culminate a true collaborative effort.  Our next milestone is the tasting of base malts at the April monthly meeting.  Anyone willing to participate can visit Whidbey Island Homebrew Supply and draw a base malt from a hat.  Participants shall brew that selected base malt to a baseline recipe of Saaz hops at 15IBU and Nottingham yeast, then bottle and bring to the April meeting.  At the meeting, we will vote on one malt to move forward in the recipe project.

  WIZA Collaborative Recipe Project

• Barrel Brew Day A Success!
  

  On Saturday February 17, a team of seven WIZA members plus many more friends and guests brewed up three more batches of Flanders Red.  These batches added 20 gallons of new wort to the 30 gallons of existing wort getting ready for transfer into the barrel.  Check out our page on the WIZA Barrel Project.

  WIZA Barrel Project

  

• Barrel Brew Day: Saturday, February 18, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
  Come brew with us and help the WIZA Barrel Project!
  

  Click to download the poster and recipe. At this event we will be cleaning out the oak barrel and brewing a new batch of Flanders Red. Everyone's batches will be combined and fermented in primary with wild yeast harvested from a bottle of Lost Abbey's 2013 box set. After primary, the beer will be transferred to the barrel and aged.

  Kits will be on sale in advance and on brew day. We hope to fill all 55 gallons, so bring your equipment and contribute what you can! Every 5 gallons matters. If you don't have equipment or can't bring it, all are still welcome to stop by, help out, ask questions, and learn about home brewing. Contributors will be credited with tokens to draw off aged beer at any time in the future the tap is open for pours.

  
• February Club Competition: Thursday, February 16, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
  Submit your entries any time before the competition
  

  Click to download the poster. The first club competition of the year is a Northwest favorite. Many of you probably have a few leftover bottles of various hoppy brews, so drop one off and share! This event is not scored per BJCP rules, it is pageant-style where overall impression is far more important than adherence to a specific IPA style category.

  If you are interested in helping to judge, email one of the WIZA officers or let us know on our facebook page and be at the meeting an hour early. No judging experience necessary.