June 21st 2023
Kombucha! It’s Dry July next month so a good time to try making this refreshing drink. Our Champion Brewer, Jim, is going to show you how to make a Scoby. Come along and hear his tips and advice… Visitors Welcome … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Meetings
Meetings and a Visit in October and November
The October Meeting saw Blair of The National Distillery Company speak at the meeting and share some highly flavoured Gins they had made, while informing us of the History of the business and his own background. A good evening was … Continue reading →
Quiz Night
and Wine and Cider and Spirits … Beer Wine Cider and Spirits Quiz !!Prizes!! Mid Winter Club Night Wednesday 16 June 7:30 pm
Continue reading →Hop Tease, the bitter truth
Meeting November 15, 2017 just to reinforce last evenings Hop Tea presentation here are some suggestions for the method just type “Hop tea” into Google and read on … or watch Youtube if you prefer. for the Hop Vodka method … Continue reading →
Annual General Meeting 2016
The Annual General Meeting will be held at the Deaf Hawkes Bay Rooms, 22 Lee Road, Taradale at 7.30pm on the 20th April. Members please bring visitors for introduction and anyone else interested in our club and its activities please … Continue reading →
March Meeting 2016
A smaller turnout for this meeting but it was an interesting one. Brian, our President, dealt with club matters and presented certificates to last month’s competition medal winners. It was noted that the Central Region’s competitions are to be hosted … Continue reading →
February Meeting 2016
After the formal part of the evening Norman gave a very informative talk and demos on aspects of wine and beer making. He created a triangulation tasting of two of the five basic tastes, acid and sweetness and then where both acid … Continue reading →
Meeting Notice November 2015
The November Meeting will be held at our clubrooms on 18th at 7.30pm at the Deaf Hawkes Bay rooms 22 Lee Road, Taradale. The October classes for the Points Cup completion are added to the November ones and will be … Continue reading →
October Meeting 2015
After the great amount of work our members did to run the National Competitions it was decided that the would have an easy meeting by going out to dinner. The Thai Orchard was chosen and 15 members and partners had … Continue reading →
20th National Competitions 16th to 18th October 2015.
At last the weekend arrived. On the Thursday all 854 entries of wine, beer, liqueur and cider were transferred to the Angus Inn after being recorded and logged into “Results“, a programme designed by Brian to produce a complete set … Continue reading →
September Meeting 2015
The September Meeting was given over to making final arrangements for the hosting of the 20th National Competition next month. All club members have volunteered to help on the setting up for judging and then the judging to be held … Continue reading →
August Meeting 2015
Twenty members and visitors had a very busy meeting which started with Norm being made a life member of the club. Norm joined the club many years ago and has worked tirelessly over the years. He has held every office in the … Continue reading →
Notice of July 2015 Meeting
This meeting will be held on the 15th July at our clubrooms, the Deaf Hawkes Bay rooms Lee St Taradale at 7.30pm. The speaker will be a rep from NZ Customs and he will give us run down on alcohol … Continue reading →
June 2015 Meeting
David, our beer expert, gave us a talk about the role of hops in beer making. These are his notes below. I will add that he had examples of two hop varieties that he had either steeped or boiled for … Continue reading →
May 2015 Meeting
Craig Biggs of Te Motu Wines on Waiheke Island gave us a very good background on the wineries aims and ambitions. It is a very small winery with only 4 ha planted in vines but plan on planting another 4ha. … Continue reading →