Brew with me this Sunday + We’ve gone green!

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Spots Open for Tomorrow’s Class, Sunday 1/24!

Learn to make your own beer in this 3 hour workshop. You’ll go through the whole process of all-grain brewing on your stovetop, even all the way to bottling beer yourself. And everyone gets to take home a few bottles. Of course we’ll be doing a lot of beer tasting, just to be sure we get our recipe right. In this workshop We’ll be making a deliciously roasted Dry Irish Stout. Come thirsty… for knowledge!

Stovetop Brewing Workshop, hosted by Preserved
Sunday, January 24, 2016, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Preserved, located in the backyard of Neighbor, 2400 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA
Cost: $40 plus registration fee

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We’ve Gone Green

Now you, or someone you would love to make you beer, can get started making 1 gallon batches of delicious, fresh, homemade beer… and save the environment! We are packing all of our grains in biodegradable, recyclable plastic bags and we’re upcycling packaging from bulk buys to repackage hops. We’re also doing all of our sticker printing on 100% recycled fiber at a local printer. The biodegradable plastic bags come from our friends at Zee Green Bags and the stickers are printed by our friends at Greener Printer.

Stovetop Brewing Kits
Includes everything you need to make beer: fermentor, hoses, cleansers, instructions, and ingredients for a 1-gallon batch
$60.00 each, includes free shipping anywhere in the US!

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Happy Beer Week!

Workshop on November 15th

Water, barley, hops, and yeast… Right? That’s the basics, but how much, when, for how long, and why? Make beer with me in a 3-hour hands-on workshop. Together we’ll go through the whole process of all-grain brewing on your stovetop, even all the way to bottling beer yourself. Everyone gets to take home a few bottles. Of course, we’ll be doing a lot of beer tasting, just to be sure we get our recipe right. In this workshop we’ll be making my favorite Fall beer, an American Wheat Ale with Rye. Come thirsty… for knowledge!

Stovetop Brewing Workshop, hosted by Biofuel Oasis
November 15, 2015, 2:00-5:00pm
Location: Sticky Art Lab, Berkeley, CA
Cost: $40
Homework: all students must bring a bottle of their favorite wheat beer to share!
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Stovetop Brewing Workshop Coming Up and Shapeshifters Cinema Celebrates Three Years

IPA Workshop Coming Up on Saturday, June 27th

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Learn to make your own beer in this 3 hour workshop. You’ll go through the whole process of all-grain brewing on your stovetop, even all the way to bottling beer yourself. And everyone gets to take home a few bottles. Of course we’ll be doing a lot of beer tasting, just to be sure we get our recipe right. In this workshop We’ll be making a deliciously hoppy IPA. Come thirsty… for knowledge!

Stovetop Brewing Workshop, hosted by Preserved
Saturday, June 27th, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Preserved, located in the backyard of Neighbor, 2400 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA
Cost: $40 plus registration fee
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New Saison Kits and Workshop at Preserved

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Saison Collaboration Beer Created with Preserved

“Preserve the Summer” is a collaboration beer created by Temescal Homebrewing and PreservedPreserved is Oakland’s one-stop popup shop for DIY preserving and fermenting supplies. The beer is a rustic Saison and part of a new stovetop brewing kit that also includes instructions on how to take it a step further and make a Sour Saison using wild Lactobacillus to create a sour mash. We’ll have kits at the workshop this Saturday or stop by Preserved to pick one up.

Stovetop Brewing Workshop Coming Up–Saturday, 4/11

Learn how to brew an all-grain one gallon batch of beer on your stovetop this weekend at Preserved. I’ll be teaching a three-hour workshop where we’ll be focusing on how to make a Saison, the perfect beer to kick off your Summer. Everyone goes home with as much beer as they can bottle and we’ll be tasting examples of the style, first thing, at 10 am!

Stovetop Brewing, hosted by Preserved
Saturday, April 11th, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Preserved, located in the backyard of Neighbor, 2400 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA
Cost: $40 plus $3.19 registration fee
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Preserved, Other Cinema, and a Workshop

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Preserved Opening This Weekend

I will now be selling kits and teaching workshops at Preserved, a new popup shop in Oakland that features supplies and workshops for DIY canning, fermenting, cheese-making, brewing, and herbal medicine. The grand opening party is this Saturday! Don’t miss it!

Preserved’s Grand Opening
Saturday, March 7th
at Neighbor, 4200 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, Ca
More about Preserved

 

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Exposed at Other Cinema–Saturday, 3/14!

I’ll have a fresh brew on tap at Other Cinema in San Francisco. I used Nate Smith’s recipe for an IPA called “The Dankness”. It’s loaded with Sterling, Apollo, Citra, Simcoe, and Summit hops, clocking in at 89 IBUs and 7% ABV. Come out and try it! From the OC calendar: “Tigger, Bunny Love, Dirty Martini, and Bambi the Mermaid use satire and their own bodies to send up conventional notions of body image, gender, and sexuality in their post-modern burlesque performances. NY underground film legend Beth B enters their subversive world both on the stage and behind-the-scenes, in this provocative portrait of bawdy artists gleefully breaking taboos as they entertain.”

Other Cinema featuring Beth B’s EXPOSED
Saturday, March 14th, 8:00 pm
ATA, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, Ca
Check out Other Cinema and Exposed

 

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Stovetop Brewing Workshop Coming Up–Sunday, 3/15

Learn to make your own beer in this 3 hour workshop. I’ll show you the whole process of all-grain brewing on your stovetop, even all the way to bottling beer. Any beer you bottle, you can take home! And of course we’ll be doing a lot of beer tasting, just to be sure we get our recipe right. We’ll be making a deliciously hoppy IPA. Come thirsty… for knowledge!

Stovetop Brewing, hosted by Biofuel Oasis
Sunday, March 15th, 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Sticky Art Lab, 1682 University Ave (at McGee), Berkeley, Ca
Cost: $40 plus $5 materials fee
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Stovetop Brewing Kits on Etsy!

Where can you get the best beer in the world? In your kitchen!  But how can that be? 

My stovetop brewing kits are now on Etsy! They come in two colors: Stout and Rye Wheat Ale. And one size fits all! You, or someone you would love to make you beer, can learn to make a 1 gallon batch of delicious, fresh, homemade beer. This kit makes it almost as easy to make it as it is to drink it!

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Weekend of Beer

Take a Workshop This Sunday

There still a few spots left in this Sunday’s workshop. In 3 hours I’ll show you the whole process of all-grain brewing on your stovetop, even through to bottling. Any beer you bottle, you can take home! And just because we’re getting started early, it doesn’t mean we won’t be doing a lot of beer tasting. Come thirsty… for knowledge!

Stovetop Brewing
Sunday, November 16, 2014, 10am – 1pm
Sticky Art Lab, 1682 University Ave (at McGee), Berkeley
Cost: $35 plus $5 materials fee
Register at Biofuel Oasis


Taste Two Beers On Tap at SF Cinematheque on Saturday

I will be at the SF Cinematheque Art Auction & Benefit party on Saturday night pouring two special brews. All proceeds benefit the SF Cinematheque. I will be bringing my Oakland Common Lager, one of my favorite brews made with my own home-roasted caramel malt and hops grown in my backyard. I will also be bringing a new brew that I finally perfected, a hoppy session beer made with wheat and rye. It’s light but bitter and unfiltered for full flavor. There will also be food, libations, music, and lots of art!

Over 50 international, national and regional artists have contributed artworks to this year’s stellar exhibition of drawings, paintings, photography, collage and multi-media installations. We are proud to feature work by Miya Ando, Kim Anno, Craig Baldwin, Bonnie Banks, Tommy Becker, Gina Borg, Nate Boyce, Tim Buckwalter, Brian Caraway, Deric Carner, Alexander Cheves, Joshua Churchill, Paul Clipson, Bill Daniel, John Davis, Veronica De Jesus, Nathaniel Dorsky, Keith Evans, Lauren Douglas, Jeanne C. Finley + John Muse, Maria Forde, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, Brynda Glazier, Mayumi Hamanaka, Jeff Hantman, Lynn Hershman, Carrie Hott, Lawrence Jordan, Miranda July, Kevin Killian, Kadet Kuhne, Kerry Laitala, Sarah Jane Lapp, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Walter Logue, Terri Loewenthal, Jodie Mack, Anne McGuire, Kim Miskowicz, Grace Rosario Perkins, Carissa Potter, Kathleen Quillian, Dick Ramsey, Amy Rathbone, Gwenaël Rattke, Michael Robinson, Jeremy Rourke, Alexander Stewart, Chris Thorson, Mark Wilson, Vanessa Woods, Karen Yasinsky and more.

SF Cinematheque Art Auction & Benefit
Saturday, November 15, 2014, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Center for New Music
55 Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
More info and tickets


Grab a Beer at Shapeshifters Cinema on Sunday

The next Shapeshifters Cinema is taking place this Sunday night and I’ll be bringing a brand new experiment. I combined a ton of German Munich Malt with a blend of German and American hops and dropped it all onto some San Francisco Lager yeast. The result is a delicious malty, hoppy Oakland Bock beer. We’ll be sampling this brew while enjoying the wildly prolific animator and musical genius, Jeremy Rourke, Sunday’s featured artist.

Shapeshifters Cinema… featuring Jeremy Rourke
Sunday, November 16, 2014, 7:30pm-9pm
Temescal Art Center
511 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609
More info

Cheers,
Gilbert

Fall Harvest News

Harvest Tasting Today at Biofuel Oasis

Celebrate the Fall Harvest at Biofuel Oasis today from Noon – 5pm! I’ll have two harvest beers there for tasting: Blackberry Rye Wheat and Fresh Hop Rye IPA. The Blackberry Rye Wheat was made with fresh blackberries grown on a wild bush in my backyard. The Fresh Hop Rye IPA was made with Cascade hops also grown in my backyard and caramel malt that I roasted at home.

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Stovetop Brewing, January 26, 2-5pm

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Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour.  Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.
– Charles Papazian

I was actually looking for something closer to “teach a man to fish” when I found this quote by Papazian. Oh well… It’s time to announce another homebrewing workshop!

Stovetop Brewing: Stout Beer
Sunday, January 26, 2014, 2:00-5:00pm
at Sticky Art Lab in Berkeley, CA
Cost: $35, plus $5 materials fee
Hosted by Biofuel Oasis!
Register here…

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Chickens and Cinema This Weekend

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Our chickens when they were just little chicks. So cute!

Today, my favorite local urban farm store Biofuel Oasis is having their 10th anniversary celebration. We bought our chickens when they were two days old there and we buy all of our chicken feed there–50lb. bags of organic layer pellets! Also, they’re hosting one of my workshops in January: Stovetop Brewing!

Tomorrow, I’ll be at Shapeshifters Cinema at the Temescal Art Center in Oakland with my Hoppy Holidays Oakland Steam Beer.

More details about both below…

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