Homebrew and Beer of 2025
January Meeting - Mead
Grand Hydro
- Wild Parrot - "The Claw" Super Lager
- Superstition Meadery Marion Melomel
- Roger Taylor's Pomegranate Mead
Mead Competition - 15 entries
- John Aitchison - Traditional Mead with Bennet's Orange Blossom
- Geoff Robertson - Traditional Mead with Meadowfoam and Wildflower Honey
- Jenna Bonney - Traditional Sweet Clover Mead
- Roger Taylor - Traditional Macadamia Nut Mead
- Danny Stahl - Dark Avocado Honey Melomel with Plums, Red Currants and Tart Cherries
- Tiffany Ashrafi - Melomel with Freeze Dried Strawberries and Gooseberries
- Ed Kochanowski - Tart Cherry Melomel
- John Aitchison - Blackberry Melomel
- Bob Dexter - Tart Cherry Melomel
- Jane Pojawa - 2006 Loquat Melomel
- Roger Taylor - Key Lime Melomel
- Roger Taylor - Hatch Chile Mead - Third Place
- John Aitchison - Apple Bochet - Second Place
- Roger Taylor - Bochet - Winner
Homebrew
- Japanese Rice Lager (with ground uncooked short grain rice) - Masa Kitano
- American Lager - Marvin Gomez (President of the SoCal Cerveceros)
- Hopped Table Mead (Dry) - Danny Stahl
- Hopped Table Mead (Semi-sweet) - Danny Stahl
- Sour Prickly Pear IPA Mead - Danny Stahl
- 5 year old Date Winter Warmer (with Unibroue yeast) - John Aitchison
February Meeting - Local Ingredient / Chili Cookoff
Grand Hydro - "Local Ingredient" (with Special TIPA appearance)
- Iwatekura Japanese Sansho Ale
- Brewery X Pickle Me Lager
- Firestone Walker Cali Squeeze Blood Orange
- Brooklyn Brewing Fonio Rising Pale Ale
- Maui Coconut Porter
- Bottle Logic War & Peaches Haberno IPA
- El Segundo Power Plant Triple IPA
- El Segundo Nuclear Power Plant Quadrupel IPA
Homebrew
- Scout Stout - Carl K
- Maltose Falcons 50th Anniversary IPA Recipe - Rick Morales
- Hop 2 Hell IPA - Jim Moorman
- Hog in the Fog IPA - Carl K
- Black IPA - MB
- Bochet - Daniel
Chili Cookoff - 9 Entries
- First Place: Karen Dexter
- Second Place: Amanda Griswold
- Third Place (tie): Fallon Ginsberg, Tiffany Ashrafi
March Meeting - Stouts
Grand Hydro - Stouts
- O'Hara Irish Stout
- Guinness Extra Stout
- Angkor Premium Extra Stout (from Cambodia)
- Kern River Class V Stout
- Silva Brewing Ouroboros Imperial Stout
- Alesmith Speedway
Special Treat: Smog City - We ❤️ LA West Coast IPA
Demo: CO2 Purge Kit for Extract Bottles & Biofine/Hop Extract Keg Injector - MB Raines
Homebrew
- Dougweiser Shop Brewing - MB's Version
- Dougweiser Shop Brewing - Jamie Crawford's Version
- Bohemian Pilsner - Roger Taylor's
- Bohemian Pilsner - John Aitchison's
- Irish Red - Ryan
- Dank Pale Ale with "weed terpenes" - Mike S
- Sour Cherry Catharina Sour - John Aitchison
- Abbey Saison - Daniel Stahl * - co-winner
- Lemonade Mead - Daniel Stahl
- Fruitcake Metheglin - John Aitchison
- Lambic Barrel Mead - John Aitchison
- Orange Marmalade Mead - Roger Taylor * - co-winner