Our first meeting for Club Year 2025-26. This months Points Cup Contest Classes Wines Wines W2 Medium Red Grape W10 Dry White Fruit Beers British, Scottish and Irish beers Liqueurs L1 Essence Based Liqueur Topic BJCP Beer Classes We will … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →