Underground Brewers of Connecticut

November Club Meeting
2023-11-15 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Nod Hill Brewery, 137 Ethan Allen Highway, Ridgefield, CT, 06877, United States
Join us at the Aspetuck Brew Lab in Bridgeport for our November meeting. Head brewer and founder Peter Cowles has always hung out and made meetings at Aspetuck a special meeting night. Don’t miss out!
Andy Tipler will bringing us up to date on his and Pierre’s most recent CO2 experiments – they are looking for feedback from the group.
New brewer? Or just new to the club? Please come by and join us. Meetings are generally 8-12 folks and focus on tasting homebrew and commercial beers. The meetings are open (membership not required), a relaxed atmosphere, and a great way to either get your beer evaluated (bring 2 bottles) or learn more about beer tasting and judging.
Don’t miss out on club events! A full schedule of upcoming events is up at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/events/ with calendar sync options available. Sign up for the club newsletter and announcements via email at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/more-info/

Beardsley Cider Pressing
2023-11-12 10:00 - 14:00 | Beardsley, 278 Leavenworth Rd, Shelton, 06484, United States
The annual cider pressing at Beardsley Orchard in Shelton will take place on Sunday November 12 from 10 am -2 pm
Beardsley will make a tank of his heirloom blend cider for us, and he will try sweating the apples for a day before pressing. His tank holds just under 300 gals. It’s first come first serve from 10:00 am until it’s gone.
Price this year is $9.00/gallon with a 10% discount on over 11 gallons.
If you’re coming on Nov 12, please bring cider to share with other club members and with Josh, who is in charge pressing the cider at Beardsley’s. Dan Beardsley is very glad to have a bottle of your cider as well.

16th Annual New England Regional Homebrew Competition
2023-11-11 | CT
Our neighbors to the north, Bree Free or Die, are putting on their 16th beer competition. They are including virtual judging so we are likely to have a shipment headed down our way. Entry sign up and judging info up at https://nerhbc.brewcomp.com/

25th Annual Great International Beer, Cider, Mead & Sake Competition
2023-11-04 | CT
This is a commercial competition run by long time UBC member Gregg Glaser held at the SoNo Collection in South Norwalk. Details up at http://www.gibcc.com/
Gregg usually reaches out to the club for judges prior to the event.

SNERHC 2023
2023-10-22 | Armada Brewing, 190 River St, New Haven, CT, United States
The Underground Brewers will proudly host the next Southern New England Regional Homebrew Competition on October, 22 2023 at Armada Brewing in New Haven, CT.
That’s right. We’re back! Back to our usual autumn timeframe. Back to in-person judging. Back to a 400-entry limit. (Take that, COVID!)
Full details, including exact dates, drop-off locations, etc., are available at https://snerhc.com.
Put us on your brewing calendar so you’ll have homebrew ready for judging this coming October.

October Meeting
2023-10-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Huxford’s, 10 Crestwood Drive, Easton, CT, United States
Getting spooky at the Huxford’s home for our October meeting!
New brewer? Or just new to the club? Please come by and join us. Meetings are generally 8-12 folks and focus on tasting homebrew and commercial beers. The meetings are open (membership not required), a relaxed atmosphere, and a great way to either get your beer evaluated (bring 2 bottles) or learn more about beer tasting and judging.
Don’t miss out on club events! A full schedule of upcoming events is up at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/events/ with calendar sync options available. Sign up for the club newsletter and announcements via email at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/more-info/

So You Think You Can Brew 2 Homebrew Competition & Festival
2023-09-23 12:00 - 16:00 | Armada Brewing, 190 River St, New Haven, CT, United States
So You Think You Can Brew is a home brew competition and festival held at Armada Brewing. Home brewers compete with two of their best beers. Home brewers meet and greet with beer lovers throughout the festival and sample their beers to the patrons. Attending patrons then vote for their favorite overall beer and their favorite brewer. Yes they can be different! Additionally secret judges will go around and choose their favorite.

Awards
People’s Choice Best Beer
People’s Choice Best Brewer
Judge’s Choice Best Brewer

Our own Matt Jordan will be one of the contestants – please come out and support him!

September Meeting
2023-09-20 19:30 - 21:30 | NewSylum, 36 Keating Farms Ave.,, Newtown, CT, United States
Join us at the NewSylum brewery in Newtown for our Sept meeting. Meeting starts at the usual 7:30pm, but many of us will be there early to pre-game on their in-house pizza.
New brewer? Or just new to the club? Please come by and join us. Meetings are generally 8-12 folks and focus on tasting homebrew and commercial beers. The meetings are open (membership not required), a relaxed atmosphere, and a great way to either get your beer evaluated (bring 2 bottles) or learn more about beer tasting and judging.
Don’t miss out on club events! A full schedule of upcoming events is up at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/events/ with calendar sync options available. Sign up for the club newsletter and announcements via email at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/more-info/

New England Homebrewers Jamboree
2023-09-08 - 2023-09-10 | Tamworth Camping Area, 306 Depot Rd, Tamworth, NH, United States
26th Annual New England Homebrewers Jamboree!!!
Come celebrate the 26th Annual New England Homebrewers Jamboree and this huge milestone. 26 years ago a few people were sitting by a fire and had a vision that has involved into one of New England’s premier homebrewing events. We are looking forward to getting together with homebrewers from all over New England and beyond! All types of brewers converge into one space and sample the best they have to offer. Music fun and camping. Friday nights Brewers Dinner theme TBD More info and menu to be added shortly.

SNERHC Entry Registration
2023-08-26 | CT
Get those kettles going!
Entry registration for the Southern New England Homebrew Competition is open August 26th. All details up at https://snerhc.com/

Summer Picnic!
2023-08-19 | Pierre Margraff’s House, 30 Chestnut Hill Rd, Trumbull, CT, 06611, United States
Join us Saturday August 19th at Pierre’s backyard in Trumbull for our annual club picnic.
Spouses/significant others encouraged!
Potluck with plenty of homebrew to share. Please coordinate food offerings on the Facebook event page (or contact Pierre if you don’t use FB) so we don’t end up with 19 potato salads.
Other things to bring: camp chairs, sunscreen, maybe a pop-up tent if you have one.
Rain date: Sunday August 20th.

July Club Meeting
2023-07-23 14:00 - 17:00 | Fox Farm Brewery, 62 Music Vale Rd, Salem, CT, United States
Road Trip!!!

For our July monthly club meeting we are planning a weekend meet up at Fox Farm Brewery in Salem, CT. Come sit out and enjoy the brewery (just social – no judging!). Fox Farm has a three drink limit, so plan carefully!

Available car pools will be posted in the Facebook event chat.

June Club Meeting
2023-06-21 19:00 - 21:00 | BADSONS Beer Co, 251 Roosevelt Drive, Derby, United States
Join us at BADSONS Beer Co in Derby for our June meeting. The meeting starts early at 7:00pm, but we will need to wrap by 9 pm for closing.
New brewer? Or just new to the club? Please come by and join us. Meetings are generally 8-12 folks and focus on tasting homebrew and commercial beers. The meetings are open (membership not required), a relaxed atmosphere, and a great way to either get your beer evaluated (bring 2 bottles) or learn more about beer tasting and judging.
Don’t miss out on club events! A full schedule of upcoming events is up at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/events/ with calendar sync options available. Sign up for the club newsletter and announcements via email at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/more-info/

26th Annual BEER & Mead Brew Off
2023-06-10 | CT
26th Annual BEER & Mead Brew Off organized by Brewers East End Revival, Po’ Boy Brewery 200 Wilson Street Unit E3 Port Jefferson Station N.Y. 11776.
Enter or register to judge at https://comp.beerhbc.org/
They’ve been great supporters of SNERHC, so let’s please return the favor, especially with judges! (Easy ferry ride to Port Jeff.)

May Club Meeting
2023-05-17 18:00 - 22:00 | Steve Victor’s House, 166 East Rock Rd, New Haven, CT, 06511, United States
Join us at Steve Victor’s house in New Haven for our May meeting. The rumors are true: this will be a joint UBC and Brew Haven club meeting. We are going to start extra early at 6 pm and make this a potluck dinner.
Steve says there will be plenty of seating and table space. There’s a covered porch and a roomy house in case of bad weather. It will be a tasting and talking meeting, with no formal judging or scoring. So, bring enough of your beer, cider, or mead to share.
Since the meeting begins early to capture more daylight and since there is no food truck planned, we urge you to bring food to share, ideally something to eat at ambient temperature. However, Steve can fire up his grill, and the kitchen with its oven, stovetop and microwave will be available for re-heating.
New brewer? Or just new to the club? Please come by and join us. Meetings are generally 8-12 folks and focus on tasting homebrew and commercial beers. The meetings are open (membership not required), a relaxed atmosphere, and a great way to either get your beer evaluated (bring 2 bottles) or learn more about beer tasting and judging.
Don’t miss out on club events! A full schedule of upcoming events is up at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/events/ with calendar sync options available. Sign up for the club newsletter and announcements via email at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/more-info/

NEBCO Homebrew Competition
2023-05-13 | CT
The New England Brewing Company will hold judging and award event on Saturday May 13th – time TBD
Full information on the competition can be found at https://reggiebeer.com/ReggieEntry.php?CompetitionID=CJWPTL1000779
Judging and entry registration is open now. Entries need to get to NEBCO by May 11th

Artwalk Beer Garden
2023-05-12 | CT
BrewHaven will be promoting this year’s Artwalk Beer Garden to be held on Friday May 12 in the evening in the Westville “Central Patio” area. As many of you know, this is a small, neighborhood beer fest featuring homebrewers from BrewHaven and increasingly the Underground Brewers. It’s a great opportunity to showcase a brew (any style) and talk about it to mainly local residents. This is a charitable event which promotes the Westville Village Renaissance Alliance, part of which is to help put on this festival, sort of a circular zen thing. Anyway please consider brewing for it and being a part of this awesome event. Contact Michael Davies at BrewHaven for any questions and more info.

Grand Brew Tech Day!
2023-05-06 14:00 - 17:00 | Andy Tipler’s House, 53 Brookside Drive, Trumbull, CT, United States
Who doesn’t love homebrewing gadgets? Our own Andy Tipler will be hosting a demonstration and discussion all about brewing tech he has built to tackle all sorts of homebrew issues.
Andy has authored multiple articles in Zymurgy, presented at HomebrewCon, and hosts a web page all about homebrewing at https://www.cheapskatehomebrewer.com. He also makes some seriously strong award winning beers!
Weather forecast is looking good (yeah, I know: meteorologists are all liars!) so we will be outside enjoying the day. Bring some home brew, food to share, and make this a fun outing.
The table below lists some of the tech stuff being demonstrated by various club members. If you have something you’d like to share, please reach out to Andy at tiplera@charter.net.
2pm-5pm at Andy’s house in Trumbull. More details and sign up on Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/3mShuryOl

Armada Beer Homebrew Competition
2023-04-29 12:00 - 16:00 | Armada Brewing, 190 River St, New Haven, CT, United States
Our own Matt Jordan and Andy Cox as well as several members of BrewHaven will be serving at the Armada Beer “So You Think You Can Brew” event. Information and tickets available at https://www.armadabeer.com/homebrew-competition

April Club Meeting
2023-04-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Reverie Brewing Company, 57B Church Hill Rd, Newtown, CT, 06470, United States
Join us at Reverie Brewing in Newtown for our April meeting. Reverie have a cool setup in the back space where they bulk age their beers – this makes for a great atmosphere for a club meeting. The meeting nominally starts at 7:30pm, but we will need to wrap by 9 pm for closing. Pregame starts at 6:30pm for folks looking to hang longer and sample head brewer Frank Lockwood’s beers.
New brewer? Or just new to the club? Please come by and join us. Meetings are generally 8-12 folks and focus on tasting homebrew and commercial beers. The meetings are open (membership not required), a relaxed atmosphere, and a great way to either get your beer evaluated (bring 2 bottles) or learn more about beer tasting and judging.
Don’t miss out on club events! A full schedule of upcoming events is up at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/events/ with calendar sync options available. Sign up for the club newsletter and announcements via email at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/more-info/

Brewers Ball Homebrew Festival
2023-04-15 12:00 - 16:00 | BADSONS Beer Co, 251 Roosevelt Drive, Derby, United States
Our own Matt Jordan and many club members from Brew Haven will be serving at the Brewer’s Ball on April 15th at Bad Sons. Tickets for the event available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brewers-ball-home-brew-festival-tickets-478067451617?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

South Shore Brewoff
2023-04-15 | CT
Information and sign up for the South Shore Brewoff homebrew competition is available at https://ssbc.brewcompetition.com/
Entries accepted thru 3/29, judging to take place in Mansfield MA on April 15th. We will likely have several club members judging at this event so car pooling is an option.

Brew Day!
2023-04-02 13:00 - 17:00 | Matt Jordan’s House, 36 Oak Wood Drive, Monroe, CT, United States
Matt Jordan will be hosting a brew day (weather dependent) at his home Sunday April 2nd. Matt is the reigning club and CT inter-club champion and has most recently spotted pouring his Constellation Brewing beers at the Twelve Percent homebrew contest.
Come and hang out, bring food and homebrew to share. If you have a portable system to brew outdoors by all means bring it along – more brew is always welcome!
Please sign up on the Facebook event to let Matt know you will be coming: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ubc.yahoos

Homebrewers' Tag Sale
2023-03-26 13:00 - 17:00 | Berlinetta Brewing Co, 90 Golden Hill Street, Bridgeport, CT, United States
Got homebrew equipment you’d like to sell? Looking to expand your home brewery? Buy stuff. Sell stuff. Trade stuff.
Join us at Berlinetta Brewing Co. in Bridgeport for a day of good deals.
Please bring clean, used homebrewing equipment only. No ingredients. No propane tanks. (CO2 tanks are ok)
FREE, on-street and lot parking near the brewery
Bring a folding table to display your goods, as the number of indoor tables is limited – outdoor tables may be available, weather permitting.
Registration is required: https://forms.gle/vWgXkoR2Sabaaz588 if you are looking to sell.

March Club Meeting
2023-03-15 19:30 - 22:00 | Mara’s House, 720 Frenchtown Road, Bridgeport, CT, United States
Join us on Wednesday March 15th at 7:30 at Mara’s house in Bridgeport for our monthly club meeting.
New brewer? Or just new to the club? Please come by and join us. Meetings are generally 8-12 folks and focus on tasting homebrew and commercial beers. The meetings are open (membership not required), a relaxed atmosphere, and a great way to either get your beer evaluated (bring 2 bottles) or learn more about beer tasting and judging.
Don’t miss out on club events! A full schedule of upcoming events is up at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/events/ with calendar sync options available. Sign up for the club newsletter and announcements via email at https://www.undergroundbrewers.org/more-info/

Ocean State Homebrew Competition Judging
2023-03-04 | CT
Judging for the Ocean State Homebrew Competition will be held on Saturday March 4th at the JWU Cuisinart Center in Providence RI. You can sign up to judge or enter a beer at 2023 Ocean State Homebrew Competition – Brew Competition Online Entry & Management
We will likely have UBC club members heading to Rhode Island to judge and can figure out carpooling as we get closer to the date.

February Club Meeting
2023-02-15 19:30 - 22:00 | Clay’s House, 7 Blueberry Hill Road, Redding, CT, United States
Join us on Wednesday February 15th at 7:30 at Clay’s house in Redding for our monthly club meeting. Clay has hinted at a comparison tasting or some kind of blind style identification. Just touring Clay’s extensive beer cellar is worth the trip!
Bring homebrew for tasting/judging and join us for a fun night.

Homebrew Alley XVII Judging
2023-02-04 | CT
Sessions 2/3 of judging for Homebrew Alley (NYC Homebrewers Guild) will take place at Wild East Brewing Company in Brooklyn at 9AM and 1PM Saturday February 4th. You can sign up to judge or enter a beer at Homebrew Alley XVII – Brew Competition Online Entry & Management
We will likely have several UBC club members heading down and will figure out carpool or public transport as the date gets closer.

January Meeting
2023-01-18 19:30 - 22:00 | Valor Wines, 118 Quinnipiac Avenue, North Haven, CT, 06473, United States
Join us at Valor Wines in North Haven for our January club meeting

Make Haven Brew Day
2023-01-08 12:00 - 18:00 | MakeHaven, 770 Chapel St, New Haven, 06510, United States
Mara and Liam will be hosting a brew day at Make Haven on Sunday January 8th from noon(ish) to 6pm. The plan is to make a Double IPA on the Make Haven brew system.
All are invited to drop by anytime hang out. Getting pizza and sampling beers (bring some!) are always part of the fun – no need to be there for the entire event.
This is a great opportunity to see the Make Haven maker space – learn more about it at https://www.makehaven.org/
